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Top Ten Reasons to Love Traveling

Top Ten Reasons to Love Traveling

air travelLast week’s top ten list was all about what drives me crazy about air travel. But now that I’m home after a wonderful trip, here are then things I love about traveling.

10. When your top-heavy suitcase tips over and bends the handle so badly it won’t slide into place anymore, nice strangers might do what’s necessary to force the handle into it’s slot.

9.  The nice strangers might also say that under no circumstances should you try to pull the handle out again. Which means someone has a good reason to get new luggage!

8.  When you travel to a conference, chances are good you’ll meet walking buddies willing to get up early for a tromp by the ocean to watch a magnificent sunrise.

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7.  Discovering that for some mysterious reason, you’ve been TSA approved for the entire trip. No long lines. No taking out the zipper bag of liquids and gels. No removing shoes. No strip search.

6. Which means there’s plenty of time to get some really good coffee, sit down, and enjoy it.

5. Discovering that for some mysterious reason, you get to board in Zone 1 or Zone 2 for the entire trip. (I wonder if the stink made after last springs highly unsatisfactory USA Airways experience landed me on their don’t-mess-with-her-she’s-crazy-so-give-her-preferential-treatment list.)

4. Boarding the plane and finding that, for some mysterious reason, (See #6 for possible explanation) your seat is right behind first class, which means you get extra leg room even though you didn’t play extra for it.

3. Feeling smug sitting right behind first class, because even though you only get to smell the food served to first class customers, you realize your closest exit is the one in front, which means that if there’s an emergency you’ll get to crash the first class party. Free. Of. Charge.

2. Seeing an inch or two of new snow on the ground in Philadelphia during a lay over and not having to go outside.

1. Discovering that for some mysterious reason (see #6 for possible explanation), though the flight crew said the plane was completely full, the only empty seat on the plane is next to you. Right behind first class. With extra leg room already. With N-A-P written all over the entire 3 hour trip. Ahhh!

What makes you love to travel? Leave your comment in the box.

Top Ten Ways Air Travel Drives Me Crazy

Top Ten Ways Air Travel Drives Me Crazy

aircraft-airplane-flying-2105-828x550Tomorrow I’m getting on an airplane for Norfolk, VIrginia. That means most of today will be spent packing so that my bags meet the TSD requirements, which is just one of the 10 ways air travel drives me crazy these days.

10. Trying to cram into one zippered, clear plastic bag all the liquids and gels needed to keep a nearly 60-year-old woman is a huge undertaking. I need a 2 gallon bag, at the very least.

9. Just what constitutes gels and liquids anyway? Not chapstick, lipstick, or solid underarm deodorant, I hope. But what about lip gloss? Cold sore balm? And the pasty goo that makes my hair look less like a limp dishrag? These decisions are killing me.

8. Baggage fees. Both ways. Please Southwest, expand your flights out of Des Moines, and I promise to fly exclusively with you!

7. Delays and airport employees kept purposefully in the dark by their higher ups so no one can be easily accessed and held accountable for messing with peoples’ lives willy nilly.

6. Escalators. Mom said I wouldn’t be afraid of them once I grew up. She lied.

5. Unpacking the computer and the 2 gallon zippered clear plastic bag, placing them in a plastic bin, and hoping I didn’t forget to unpack something else that will be confiscated or mark me for a pat down.

4. The security gate strip down. Off comes the belt, the shoes, the jacket, the travel pouch. Be forewarned TSA folks, I draw the line at removing internal organs!

3. Once through the security gate, all food options are a minefield for my dairy allergy. I can do nothing to expand those menu options since my milk and butter substitutes couldn’t be packed in my carry on luggage because they exceed the 3 ounce maximum.

2. Powering down all electronic devices as the plane powers up. Not that I’m adverse to clear radio signals, mind you. But I always forget to turn something off, and my guess is everybody else forgets something, too. So we’re already toast if all our electronic devices really to mess with the radio signals.

1. Airplane potties. ‘Nuf said on that one.

What about air travel drives you crazy? Leave a comment