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The trip home
Dec. 8th, 2007 12:00 pmWhen does the journey begin? Some people think it begins when your first flight takes off. I disagree. It is when I leave home, or am packed and about to step out of the hotel room. Certainly I count interacting with hotel staff to check out as part of the journey. Ditto on the rental car staff who left me standing in the rain for 10 minutes, and the other airline passengers who turned stretching into either an art form to get rid of all neighbors in the lounge or to get a free grope.
As I type this I am still on my first flight They say we are in US airspace. I have been traveling for 16 hours. If by some crazy chance I manage to catch my flight to Texas, I will arrive home after 19 hours of travel. Ugh.
My cold is blooming, the jet lag makes me feel foggy and gritty eyed. I have yet to begin the adrenaline surge of calling the airline for rerouting when we hit the runway or the likely run-and-wait-and-run through baggage claim, customs, recheck, transfer to the domestic terminal and get through security.
Forget flying. I want my super-power to be teleportation.
As I type this I am still on my first flight They say we are in US airspace. I have been traveling for 16 hours. If by some crazy chance I manage to catch my flight to Texas, I will arrive home after 19 hours of travel. Ugh.
My cold is blooming, the jet lag makes me feel foggy and gritty eyed. I have yet to begin the adrenaline surge of calling the airline for rerouting when we hit the runway or the likely run-and-wait-and-run through baggage claim, customs, recheck, transfer to the domestic terminal and get through security.
Forget flying. I want my super-power to be teleportation.
