In flight, EWR-HNL
Written in January 2020 enroute to Molokai. I didn’t think I’d make it onto this flight. A few years of this hustle have taught me that I can get away with taking some chances...
Tagged: airports
IAH redux
IAH is full of wonders. Travel journal, April 2014 It’s five in the morning. Lightning splits the sky every few minutes, but there’s no thunder to accompany it. Never has dramatic weather been so...
Connections: Houston
“People in IAH are rude today. Passengers, anyway.” Travel journal, 11 April 2014 After my ill-fated attempts to transfer through sexy airports like SFO and JFK, I quickly realised that the road less travelled...
On flexibility and the potential for delight
The forced flexibility of standby flight awakens you to unexpected discovery and delight, if you allow yourself to open to them. You don’t know if you’re going to get onto a flight, in many...
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...
