AIRPLANE!
well as a kid my family really didn't go on vacations. we went to Florida twice but that's it. Our money basically went towards paying for my brother and I to play hockey. So instead of vacations i was still able to see a lot of Ontario and probably 5 or 6 different states thanks to hockey.
Now that I'm basically on my own and will be done school in a year, my gf and I definitely plan on going out west. Originally the trip we're going on next week was meant for BC last year but some things came up and we decided it would be better off to save money for an additional year and go overseas.
Even though i don't have mountains in my backyard, I do have ocean freighters pass by just 100 metres up the road, and not to mention a little thing called Niagara Falls... so I don't think I've missed out cause I haven't seen a mountain yet. Just been seeing other things in the mean time.
Now that I'm basically on my own and will be done school in a year, my gf and I definitely plan on going out west. Originally the trip we're going on next week was meant for BC last year but some things came up and we decided it would be better off to save money for an additional year and go overseas.
Even though i don't have mountains in my backyard, I do have ocean freighters pass by just 100 metres up the road, and not to mention a little thing called Niagara Falls... so I don't think I've missed out cause I haven't seen a mountain yet. Just been seeing other things in the mean time.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
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afealicious wrote:...wow.
go outside! it's fun out there!
I know, I feel the same way. But the east coast is basically one big hilly- mountain range so I guess I can't talk much.
-Sarah
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
so i flew home two days ago. the flight from halifax to st. john's was rather bumpy, because it was cloudy and misty in st. john's (what else is new?). it was very dark and foggy outside, and i was sitting in an aisle seat, so i couldn't tell what was going on outside. so here i am, sitting in my seat half asleep, trying to ignore the turbulence outside, when there's this huge jolt throughout the plane. in my half-dazed stupor, i thought there was something wrong and the plane was going to crash and we were all going to die. my heart almost jumped out of my throat. and then i look outside and realize, "oh, wait. we're on the ground?". turns out the huge jolt was us landing and we weren't all going to die after all. the end. 
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Hooray! No one mysteriously lost on an uncharted island in the South Pacific? Wooooo!!!
-Sarah
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
well I have two more days until I go on my trip, so there's still a slim chance I'll be living it up on a deserted island somewhere.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
:O what happened?
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
Kathy14 wrote:I've had two such bad airplane experiences that I got free plane rides as compensation!
I've had 2 that should have done that. But Air Canada are mean and would only give me Air Canada airmiles which I'm obviously never going to use since I refuse to fly with them any more. I still need to use my BA free flight.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
my mother is an air miles genius. i don't know how she does it, but she manages to gather enough to fly around the world all the time. she took my family (except for me) to africa once and then she's flying us all to mexico next winter...for free baby!
but bad airplane experiences/free tickets rock! i've flown first class a bunch of times because of such deals. arriba!
but bad airplane experiences/free tickets rock! i've flown first class a bunch of times because of such deals. arriba!
I think it was just the long flights that bugged me. I don't know. On the way there they just made me feel like shite for some reason. Then on the way back something effed up and me missed our flight back from London to Toronto, ended up having to take an extra flight and sleeping on the floor in the Tonronto airport and getting home 10 hours late. Exahuasted and full of airplane food = grumpy me.
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Heh. One year Air Canada decided to go on strike just as my father and very small sister and I were trying to get back from Athens. It took us about 4 days, I think. This was a number of years ago but I distinctly recall spending a night on the floor of the Frankfurt airport, and another in a hotel in Amsterdam.
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