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Oct 05, 2007 18:01

Go by tube
I have never liked flying. I expect I'd enjoy a trip in a light aircraft, and I've enjoyed being dragged behind a boat strapped to a parachute. But airliners take what should be the most incredible thing a gravity-bound human being could experience, and make it dull. You sit in a chair bolted inside a metal tube for hours, and if you're ( Read more... )

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beckyc October 5 2007, 09:00:29 UTC

. Unfortunate, because I like the landing the least. My ears never fail to ache, and sometimes continue to do so for hours after I disembark.

Landings, as far as I can tell, are a way that you can discover not only how far your sinuses extend, but how far all the nerves that go anywhere near your sinuses extend.

I snort menthol for days beforehand and almost continually through the flight. It's hard to get it to take effect all the way into your ears though :-/.

alex_downunder October 15 2007, 06:15:01 UTC

I guess it's just something I've gotta live with if I want to go anywhere by air. I'm going to try and see as much of this continent by road as possible.

the_marquis October 5 2007, 15:29:35 UTC

Oh good, nothing has bitten you fatally since we last saw you down there then ;-)

alex_downunder October 15 2007, 06:15:45 UTC

Nope, no bites yet. But I did see a snake, just minding it's own business.

rustica October 5 2007, 19:06:02 UTC

Oh My God! Seeing the dawn over Persia! *swoons*. You can have Oz (though I'll enjoy reading about it obviously :D), I'm sure it 's wonderful, and I'd like to think I might see it one day but Persia! that's just so amazingly *foreign* - did I say OMG already? The East.... I could wax all poetical, but I'll be merciful and spare you!

alex_downunder October 15 2007, 06:18:24 UTC

It really was magnificent. I too would love to visit there properly, but I kinda get the impression I wouldn't be too welcome.

Oh My God is fine, as many times as you like. No OMGs or LOLs please though - I find it difficult to read anything that's not written how it's spoken.

bekbulatovich October 6 2007, 23:08:50 UTC

Wow! That sounds fantastic. Hope everything is OK - keep us up to date! :)

alex_downunder October 15 2007, 06:19:13 UTC

Will do, bit of a backlog.

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alex_downunder October 15 2007, 06:20:44 UTC

Well this isn't just for the benefit of people who were here with me. And anyway, it's just me now, so once I get past the first three weeks, it'll all be new to everyone. Just been too busy doing to be writing.