I'm ba-aaack

[cjsmith]

Home safely, around 10 (10:30 at the house) last night. Exhausted. Eleven hours of flying - I can only imagine how tired Rob was. Thank goodness for autopilots.

Am at work now, after doing a bunch of laundry and cleaning up what the cat did. Am now ravenous. I guess maybe I did shift a little toward Central time.

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[airporter.livejournal.com]

Travelling safely is good. I'm not a great flying sort, though having read you and Rob for so long now, planes smaller than passenger liners are beginning to appeal.

Regardless, a couple of 'severe' drops might have had me needing to do laundry.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Galveston's far enough that an airliner could have gotten us home faster, door-to-door -- IF there had been a flight from Houston to San Jose exactly when we wanted one. The real bonus we get with a small plane is flexibility. There are no hassles with luggage, there's always a flight departing when you want it to, and some of the flights go to small airports (Galveston) the big guys don't reach. :-)

I admit my tummy wasn't perfectly comfortable after that many hours of turbulence! Fortunately the wild drops were rare. If those had been the norm, I might have had to change clothes too.

It's interesting you chose the name "airporter" if you're not much of a fan of flying!

[airporter.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of flying, but I'm a fan of picking friends and family up at the Vancouver International and transporting them to my home or a hotel.

I try to make sure everybody coming to visit me is met at the airport and have since I got my first car. The Airporter nick came about in 2000, after doing a dozen trips in one week. 'YVRPorter' was already taken when I needed a nick, so...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Mister Airport Shuttle! :-) Does that ever get old?

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Nah, most people just assume I like flying. *grin*

[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

The real bonus we get with a small plane is flexibility.

Aaaaaand, you don't have to deal with airport security! :-)

(Normally it's not bad for us, but the long lines suck. And the first time I went through one of those chemical sensor booths, I went claustrophobic all of a sudden. Came out with the shakes. And then they picked me for a carryon luggage shakedown, which took ten really long minutes as they slowly went through EVERY SINGLE THING in my tightly-packed camera bag.)

'Nuff about that. Welcome back! The only thing I remember about visiting Galveston Beach as a child was big waves and oil clots in the water. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. When we guesstimated jet travel door-to-door times from Galveston we included a generous figure for security. I get picked for the carry-on search very frequently, and there's always an extra delay because these shoes don't come off. Hey! Another advantage to small planes: a LOT less walking! (Getting through an airport means at least a day, sometimes two or three, of pain afterward.)

Thanks! The water wasn't too bad when we were there. I hear it's often got schtuff in it.