|
Flying sucks. I'm living in Europe right now on a study abroad program, and lemme tell you--they got the whole train thing figured out. Fuck flying.
For comparison, I went home for a week last week, and while the tickets were cheap, I had to deal with the standard fare: lots of delays, cramped seats, bitchy employees, dirty airports, oversold flights... And oh yeah, more delays. At one point, my flight to Frankfurt was delayed from 4PM until 8AM the next morning. Luckily, I encountered a nice employee who reissued my tickets for a totally different route before I had to spend the night in the Philly airport.
Speaking of the Philly airport, avoid it at all times. I've flown through there 8 or 9 times, and everytime, there were HUGE delays, mostly from them not being able to get enough planes on/off the ground. And it's the single dirtiest airport I've ever encountered. Not a place you want to spend the night because air traffic control needs a few more cups of coffee to get going.
God, I just realized I had so many crappy travel stories, I can't seem to get them down before I think of another one. But yeah, there's something about spending 20 minutes getting undressed and unpacked for a security scan before spending 20 more getting redressed/repacked, before spending 2 hours waiting for a plane, before spending 8 hours crammed into a seat 2 inches from a snoring, sweaty, fat man, all assuming that, like you said, you actually get the seat you paid for, that makes you wish you didn't have to/want to travel.
Biggest tip I have: At all costs, fly carryon. Get ruthless with your packing, not having to deal with baggage is, as I'm sure you just learned, a godsend. Get to the point that you can go for a week out of a small carryon. It's the most liberating feeling.
__________________
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato
|