My wife will tag along. The company is OK with this as long as I understand that I'm responsible for taking care of her expenses. The company will only take care of my plane ticket, hotel, and car rental.
The hotel will accommodate us both, but I have to take care of the my wife's air fare.
I'll be in a training class from 9 to 4:30. My wife will get a nice little vacation while I'm in class.
Family and good friends will watch our kids while we're gone for a week.
Cross your fingers; I'll be in the air early Sunday morning.
I've got blogs queued up on MDLS (my other blog). However, if this post on this blog ends up being my last, you'll know what happened.
But hey, let's try to be positive, huh?
You can probably tell that I don't like flying much. I like it, but then again I don't.
I love when the plane lifts off the ground. I stare down with wonder when looking out of the window.
But, I become very nervous when I wonder if our pilot is drunk, sleepy, angry, suicidal, or incompetent. I get worried wondering if the airline has cut corners on safety and my plane might burst into flames on the run way, or we go careening towards the ground because of some malfunction that was ignored to save some money.
I don't even think about terrorists. I just have to ignore that idea . . .
And that's when I realize that I don't like to fly in the long run. But, I can't let my fears show.
Even though my wife has flown a few times, she is a little scared, too. So, I gotta be strong for her.
Anyhow-- hopefully, I'll live to update this blog another day.
All in all, I think I will.
It is scary how similar we are. I have the same thoughts during takeoff! I don't think of terrorists, I think "what if we are that plane that comes crashing back to Earth? Is that other plane too close? How good is the pilot? Did he get enough sleep? Was that the engine bursting into flames?"
ReplyDeleteBut I LOVE to fly! Lol!
Yeah, seems like we do have some personality similarities. We seem to have the same feelings about our Republic in which we live. We also seem to have the same "live and let live" perspective concerning people's private life styles and religious beliefs (though we may disagree on some of that . . . we agree to disagree).
ReplyDeleteAnd looks like we have the same love-hate relationship with flying, too! How 'bout that!
My class and hotel are right by the airport. I see planes coming in every time I drive back and forth. I saw one plane coming in-- boy I wish I could have gotten a photo of it. I looked like it was going to come down in the grass right off to the side of the road. I looked like it was coming towards us as it descended. Really cool!
I'd like to think this would ease my nerves a bit, seeing so many planes come and go day in and day out. But that doesn't help. Since it's so routine, I worry that someone will not take their job so seriously and my plane will be the unlucky one.
We'll, at least I've finished the first leg of my trip. Me and my "wifie" fly home Saturday morning.
Oh you are safe, don't worry. See, I have no plans to fly until October. Which means, given my history with aviation, around mid September - mid October there will be three (that is right, THREE) crashes or serious incidents on plans. But my plane will be safe. I am a curse on the aviation industry.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right . . . I remember you saying that once. OK, I'll make sure I'll stay out of the air during that time frame.
ReplyDeleteAnd always let me know when you fly, please.