Calgary, eh?
The person behind me has taken a phone call. Also, we’re on the honour system for landing prep due to turbulence. — From my journal, IAD-IAH, as the plane entered the final descent into...
Flying frequently, and writing about it.
Standing by
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The tradeoff for my being able to fly for almost nothing on United this year is that I fly standby, which means I get...
A sort of home
It would be inappropriate to leave DC out of the story of my adventures, but it’s impossible to know exactly where to fit it in. It’s even inappropriate to refer to it as DC,...
Old news in a new place: On Yoga
Before I left for a month of travel madness I made a list of things I was going to do with all this time I’d have. I was going to write, I was going...
Providence: It’s not Boston
Why Providence? Well…why not? Rhode Island is the smallest US state, and not the sort of place you find yourself by accident. It’s where all those Cthulu stories come from, as Lovecraft apparently went...
Security Insecurities (or: Why flying is so annoying in the US)
Over a month of flying I went through TSA’s gauntlet many, many times. It’s changed over the years, but one thing that was very striking about this experience was how similar it was from...
BOS and IAH: The Boston Marathon
When talking or learning about public speaking, the human stress response gets a lot of crap. “Fight or flight was designed for ensuring the survival of humans in a world where tigers are a...
A Challenge Accepted
Before leaving for the States uber set me a challenge: run 5K in each city I visit. I despise running, preferring swimming or cycling for my endurance challenges, but being away for a month...
SFO: The first real standby challenge
The JFK-SFO and JFK-LAX flights are the businessman’s specials on United, with big comfortable planes, good food, wifi, and all the benefits American air travel usually lacks. My initial itinerary tried to take advantage...
Flying Frequently
In a month of near-constant plane travel, a lot of the romance went out of the activity. When it left, the romance took most of the stress out of it as well. I haven’t...
