My day in limbo

So I flew out of my first country late last night/early this morning.  It seems evident that I am doomed to not have a smooth ride to the airport at any point this trip.  My shuttle was an hour late picking me up to go to Kennedy and then last night my ride to the airport didn't show up.  I ended up taking a taxi with some weird driver who wanted to practice his English when all I wanted to do was get to the airport quickly.  The airport had some crazy security procedures including three trips through the metal detectors and a more than casual acquaintance with the pat down lady.  I mean really she could have at least bought me dinner before she got that friendly!  The third time through security they searched my backpack by hand.  I had just stopped and brought some snacks to use up the rest of my currency forgetting that I already had some snacks in my bag so I had an embarrassing amount of candy in my bag!  And really, I had already been scanned three times, what could I possibly be hiding at that point?

The place where I left from and the place that I am going to are only about an hour apart by air but that's just too easy for this part of the world.  Instead, I flew 2 1/2 hours west this morning, have a 15 hour layover and am flying 3 1/2 hours east tonight (probably directly over the city I left this morning).  So today has been a day in limbo.  I decided to be a bad traveler today and forgo the tour of the city that I could have taken during the layover and instead booked myself into the airport hotel and slept for the day.  I have a student who I know will be disappointed with me for not taking the tour but I know the next week has a lot of long travel days (due to my refusal to take internal flights) and I didn't have time to sleep last night so I thought I would be better off just relaxing.  I'm also in a country I know I want to come back and visit in the future because there's a lot I want to see so I'll be back here someday.

There were a lot of good guesses on my first destination.  My sister asked me if I was going to tell if anyone gets it right and I'm still not sure if I will make a final reveal before I get home but I will say that there were no correct answers for the first country.  It's sad that there have been so many genocides in world history that there were so many good guesses that weren't right.  It's also sad that the one that I spent the week learning about has been forgotten by so many. 

I will be off in a few hours to my next undisclosed location and the adventure (and the clues) will continue!