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November 17, 2006

Adventure Mode and Airports . . .

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 11:23 am

I've been thinking . . .
Thanksgivng is the busiest travel time of the year.

I used to travel a lot — not as much as some, but way more than most. For almost three years, the longest time I spent with my pillow was 21 days and that only happened once. Several times I was away over 40 days. I got good at traveling.

What I learned was to go into adventure mode. I bet you remember adventure mode from childhood. It’s that way of looking at the world as if everything is an adventure — a game, something fun and exciting.

When a plane was delayed, adventure mode would kick in. I would start looking for where the story would begin. Everyone knows that no matter how awful a traveling delay can get, if you get a good story, it’s not a total and complete wipe out.

My best story is when I was stuck in an airport for four days.

If you travel over the holidays, be safe, travel well, and come back to us. If you run into delays, remember adventure mode . . . and bring back a story to tell us.

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12 Comments to “Adventure Mode and Airports . . .”

  1. November 17th, 2006 at 11:58 am
    Sabine said

    “My best story is when I was stuck in an airport for four days.”

    And????

    How can you leave us hanging like that? What’s the story?

  2. November 17th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
    ann michael said

    My best airplane story was when we had an emergency landing because there was smoke in the cabin!

    I took pictures:
    http://managetochange.typepad.com/main/2006/09/airports_can_be.html

    Even that was only 9 hours in a rural airport - nothing close to 4 days!

  3. November 17th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh Sabine,
    It’s such a long story. It would take a whole post. It was the winter of 1996. The equipment was stuck in one place. The crews were in another. The passangers were all over the place. There was a great blizzard in the NE you might remember it. :)

    Everyone at the Admirals Club remembered me for years after that. :)

  4. November 17th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh Ann,
    There’s a story I can’t beat! Smoke in the cabin . . . not sure I’d want to be there for that!

  5. November 18th, 2006 at 4:40 am
    Trevor said

    Hey - you guys know nothing about adventures in airports and planes. Try getting fog bound for four hours in a domestic terminal in a third world airport like Kathmandu. Utter chaos. Then try getting on a tiny plane run by Yeti Airlines. Yes - you read correctly! Then after your flight landing in a paddock with a grass hut being the terminal. THAT’S adventure.

  6. November 18th, 2006 at 7:13 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Trevor!
    That’s a story! I think it’s good one . . . but I think my story about getting stuck in Trieste on a Sunday — was a pretty good one. So I think we have Top Ten going here. You’re still number one, but there are lots of folks traveling over Thanksgiving. Someone might come back with a real contender !! :)

  7. November 18th, 2006 at 8:51 am
    TechZ said

    I love to travel, yet don’t get to do it enough…I’m going to have to change that soon. My favorite mode of travel, trains! I love spending countless hours in them :D

  8. November 18th, 2006 at 8:58 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi TechZ,
    I love trains too! I used to ride them when I was really small — back when the US had real trains with read dining rooms. They were romantic then. :)

  9. November 18th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
    TechZ said

    Longest train rides i’ve been on lasted a few days, in India, magnificient!

  10. November 18th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I’ve not done a train ride that long. That sounds wonderfully relaxing!

  11. November 18th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
    TechZ said

    It’s incredible fun, you get to sleep in the train, amazing views of the countryside, past so many place, it’s a holiday on the move!

  12. November 18th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Sleeping on a train is wonderful! I can’t even imagine the views. . . :)

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