Apr 30 2007
Air travel is like a waking dream. You are moving from point A to point B yet have no sense of the journey, the distance, the movement.
International air travel exaggerates this. Your senses are hammered and dulled by the constant roar of the engines, the thrumming of machinery. You are no longer in control [...]
Apr 29 2007
[Thursday April 26, 2007]
The cabin is darkened, my seat is reclined, I’m nestled in padding and white sheets. I’m cozy amongst half a dozen or so strangers who have settled in for the night.
I fly towards Cape Town, cocooned in a first class pod, watching “Stranger Than Fiction.”
At the very end of the movie, [...]
Apr 26 2007
Some people think the world is out to get them, some people think they ARE the world and some people know that we all share the same space but we all define it differently.
All the officials I’ve encountered at Heathrow have been polite, courteous, respectful, helpful and nice. When someone noticed that I had 2 [...]