Thursday evening came around to soon. It only seemed like yesterday when I finished my last shift, but it already had been 5 days ago since I had returned from my last trip to New York. The only positive thing about my next flight was the fact it was an overnight to Cape Town with a very good chance I would be lucky to welcome a new member into the club. My...
Chapter 1 "TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS?!!!" "YOU SPENT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ON BATTERIES FOR A TOY AIRPLANE?!" To say my wife, Sarah, was upset would be somewhat of an understatement. "How many times do I have to tell you that this isn't a toy." I decided not to clarify that the two battery packs FedEx just delivered had cost me $250 each, not collect...
Last September, my husband got called away on another business trip. He didn't often leave the states, but this time he had to go to London. He had been there three or four times in the past, but I was never able to go with him. I knew he liked London because he would always come home and tell me about it. Mostly the nylons. Apparently, most women in London...
True courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquering of it. *** "By the Prophet's black heart, what sort of a stunt was that, Liz?" "Give me some credit, Kev, it was an evasive maneuver!" "Sure, if you were 'evading' a beached whale! You would have been vapebait for an Jaheem on a bad-" "Kids." The warning tone of Captain Aiden Hunt crackling...
While waiting to board my flight from LAX to Seattle to visit friends, I nervously checked the weather report on my smartphone and noted that a huge storm that was raging. I knew that meant extra turbulence during the flight and for a minute I actually considered driving the 1,000 miles to Seattle instead. I took another Valium and leaned back in my seat, ey...
My sister, Angie, called me two nights ago. Angie had talked to mom and had found out things had gone south between mom and dad so they had filed for divorce. Angie was upset so I got off the phone to call mom. "Hey, Mom, it's Kaden," I said when she answered. "Angie told me about you and dad. Are you all right?" "Oh, Kaden, I'm fine," Mom said. "This has...
Day 1 - Travelling Travel We'd had an early flight, so it is nice to be off the ground and able to sit back in my chair. I'm so glad to be leaving the snow of Minnesota and heading to the Caribbean. We received another 8 inches of snow last night. I had been a little worried it might delay our flight. That could have cause problems given the short layover...
It was Friday evening and our trip to Las Vegas from southern California would be about a 5 hour drive. Getting through Los Angeles can be a nightmare on the freeway. My girlfriend Linda and I decided to take the weekend off and just go! We had been planning to do something fun for ourselves and what would be more fun than 2 women in Las Vegas for a weekend?...
There I was again, nose deep in a sales report on the New York to DC air shuttle for my bi-weekly trip to our head office. "Thank God for business class." I thought as I stretched my legs in advance of the hour and a half flight. I was careful, however, not to wrinkle my skirt, since I was expected to go straight to our staff meeting after arrival. I had d...
Bob boarded the Sing-Air flight dreading both the flight itself and the trip. He was on his way to Singapore to shut down the company offices there and he hated it. True, they hadn't been making money lately -in fact they were losing big- but still, they were doing the best they could in the dwindling market and this was going to hurt people he cared about....