50 Flights, and Still Stuck in the Airport

September 30th, 2009 admin

This morning I hit 50 flights. It seems like I should have celebrated it as some sort of special event, but there really wasn’t anything particularly remarkable about it. I boarded the flight early, which I suppose was a change of pace. I’m usually one of the last to go on, trying to savor every moment I have to stand. Hours upon hours in the air will do that to you. I sat down next to a lady mumbling in Hindi, a language I recognized thanks to a close friend from India. She’d mutter a phrase out loud…


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