Up Up and away!

Up at 03:30AM to get picked up with baggage at 04:20AM and got to the airport by 05:00AM. Good thing, as even with the special handling, to tie together a purchased ticket with a frequent flier flight at the end of the purchased ticket route. The bags originally got checked only through to Munich, but we didn't find out until the bags got sucked away on the conveyor belt to go behind the wall (pre-9/11 style) and then we asked about the airport codes on the baggage claim tickets. And got some human customer service assistance and the baggage expert was to find them and route them all the way to Istanbul.
A really new adventure, and I don't know what to expect.  We'll arrive sometime around 11:00PM tomorrow, but 10 of those hours are due to the lost time flying east.
Not to get too excited, the first is leg to Toronto is now 50 minutes delayed, so we can cool our 'jets.'

It's official! I got credit for completing the 400km brevet

And my inglorious time is posted on the OR Randonneurs website!  That was the only part of the whole experience that was missing, now I've got proof, in the documentary record, that I did it, not just making it up.  I learned a lot, but glad to know that that obstacle is not insurmountable.