On 2021-05-02 4:19 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 5/2/2021 3:14 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>> If I could teleport, I wouldn't mind traveling.Â* The thought of being
>> cooped up in an aluminum tube with a couple hundred strangers
>> for half a day doesn't appeal one little bit.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
> Many flights to Europe from the east leave about dinner time.Â* Order a
> second drink or wine with dinner and then sleep the rest of the way and
> arrive in the morning.
>
> To make it worthwhile you have to go for at least 10 to 14 days.Â* IMO,
> well worth doing at least once in your life.
>
> Even seeing other parts of the US is good too.Â* I've know people that
> never ventured 50 miles from where they were born.
>
> I run up and down the east coast a few times a year but that is not
> seeing anything but highway to my destination in 18 hours.Â* On a
> vacation to see things that trip should be 5 days or more as it has been
> in the past.

I love flying. I love the take off. I love the landing, I love looking
out the window and watching the world go by. I don't like the waiting.
For me to fly to Europe these days I have to drive to Toronto, which
will take a minimum hour and a half, but often much more. Then you
have to be there 2-3 hours early. Then you board and sit there waiting
to take off.

My last trip over was 12 years ago. We left in good time to account for
traffic, so of course there were no delays and we ended up at the
airport 4 hours early. We departed in the evening and arrived as
Schipol at about 5am and had a 4 hour layover, then on to Tallinn
Estonia, arriving there around noon. Our niece's husband picked us up
and drove us to their apartment where we caught up with our niece while
he went back to work.

I was tired enough, but after a a couple drinks and a late dinner I was
near exhaustion. We had been up early at home, left for the airport
around 1 pm. our time and it was almost midnight their time by the time
I went to bed.... in a room with white walls, sheer white curtains that
covered half the window and at that time of year the sun went down at
about 11:30 and was back up an hour later.