Writing prompt Flight to the unknown

I was blindfolded before the plane landed. We'd been in the air almost 9 hours, having left from a smaller municipal airport whose runway was barely enough to allow the plane to land and take off. I didn't know exactly where we were going, only our general destination. I heard the crew opening the cabin door and anxiously waited as the boarding stair unfolded. I was asked to stand and then guide out of the aircraft and down the stairs and bundled into a waiting SUV. We then drove for close to an hour. I could smell the clean tang of an ocean breeze and tropical flowers as the a SUV began a winding drive on a rising road. When we stopped I heard a second vehicle pull past us and park, heard its door open, some quietly spoken words, then heard people walking past our SUV. After a minute or two, my door was opened and I was helped out of the SUV and my blindfold was removed. I saw...