Forty minutes later, about the same amount of time it would have taken to drive from their Long Island homes to a restaurant in Manhattan, the pilots landed in Pennsylvania, parked their planes side by side on the tarmac and walked to the airport restaurant.
About 4km to the east, just outside of Las Galeras, I ventured off the tarmac roads and walked along a dirt track, passing both roaming horses and scooters carrying entire families.
"I made a big mistake by getting jobs that I worked all night, where I just had time to think: the airport, walking around the tarmac all night.
You can't have it squelching all over the place in a great splurge of yeast; as you spread it finely across your toast, it should display the same dark stickiness as walking on hot tarmac.
Walking past a set of cricket wickets painted onto the red brick wall, I run into another woman walking across the tarmac at the centre of Sky City.
This collection is all about the little things we crave.
Arriving in Belize, stepping off the plane, and walking across the tarmac to the one-room arrivals hall of the airport, you have a sense of leaving the rest of the world behind.
Yet on Monday, Mrs. Clinton admitted that she "misspoke" about the episode — a concession that came after CBS News showed footage of her walking calmly across the tarmac with her daughter, Chelsea, and being greeted by dignitaries and a child.
In 2008, Clinton said: "I remember landing under sniper fire" in Bosnia in 1996, but the Washington Post unearthed footage of Clinton walking and smiling on a tarmac there.
As she told it, the man walking to the car on the tarmac in Miami looked really familiar.
