My Transcontinental Odyssey

A while back I embarked on a five-city hop from coast to coast on a United Airlines 757 -- a journey that is typically a seamless six-hour nonstop flight. And to keep it real, I did it all in economy class and without the aid of my iPod (painful to say the least). I took off at 9 a.m. EDT in Boston and touched down in California at 7 p.m. PDT that evening, just in time to turn around and take a red-eye back east. I like to fly, but not even I would do something so silly merely to spend quality time cramped in a tin can barreling westward at 500 knots. My real motivation was research for a forthcoming travel article on the state of air travel and the concept of the journey as the destination.

United Flt. 881: Dep. Boston 9:00 a.m. Arr. Chicago 10:42 a.m.
Flight boards on-time, and I find myself squashed between two women who make no distinction between my personal space and their personal space. The woman to my left is old and chatty. "I'm going to visit my son," she tells me as if I care twopence. "He's a businessman. You know, those businessmen travel so much these days. They bring their computers everywhere!" she tells me as I furiously pound on my BlackBerry, trying to get out one last message to the grounded masses before the door closes.... More...

Posted by Sebastian / May 13, 2005 /



Denver

I can appreciate the aesthetic of the mountains and the cool airport terminal, but the cowboy hats have to go.  That's about all I can say about this trip to Denver.

Posted by: Sebastian / Sept. 15, 2004

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