The Side Effects of Endorphins

Berlin to Brussels to Chicago to PDX

Flights home after a long trip can be an exercise in Get it Done. We simply want to get home. The taxi driver sitting on your door steps at a quarter til five in the morning is always annoying.

But sitting in the middle seat on airplane is a collasal pain in the neck. Yet somehow we make it work´

The Mantra

Geldbeutel, Pass, Handy

Thats your mantra. In englisch it is Wallet, Passport, Cell Phone. This chant should be done every half hour or so. If you find yourself doing it every minute or so, you just don’t have your travel game on. That’s me often. This was especially true today.

Killing Two Stones with one Bird

I have a favorite little corner bar in the Chicago Airport that I like. I skipped it today. I sat and edited an essay. It’s not like me to be real productive in an airport, but I pulled it off today. Or other words that nothing better to do.

Belgium

it may be the most boring place I’ve visited. Today I only visit the airport. I honestly don’t remember much of anything about it predictably boring, and on time..

My Guilty Pleasure

I love watching Indie films from other countries. Today I watched three. I usually read on planes and I did some of that, but I filled in with an occasional episode of Ted Lasso.

An Observation

Doing work on a laptop doesn’t always work on modern day airplanes. If the person in front of you recline their seat, it may crash your laptop..

Sleep

I left Berlin at 4 o’clock in the morning, landed in Portland at 7 o’clock in the afternoon and then you had a nine hour time zone and it’s been a long day.

I did sleep for two hours.

Just Reward

My wife was standing there when I got off the plane, heading down to baggage claim. That’s the entire point of the melancholy that is the return trip back home.