Home On The Range
FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-02-21-ask-the-captain_x.htm
Cap’n Meryl – Home on the Range
I’m on vacation until the end of the February. So what’s anairline captain do with enough days off to actually gosomewhere fun? Shall I jet off to Bali or some other exoticport? Perhaps take a cruise through the canals of France? A trip to the Great Pyramids of Egypt?
I think not. My idea of a good time when I’m not jettingaround the planet for a living—which for me frankly is likea vacation in spite of the long hours—is to just stay home,and that is exactly what I’m doing. I need to be re-trainedon all things domestic, though. I’m dialing “9” every timeI make a call, head for my suitcase when I need clothes, andwho knew they made big bars of soap?
I’m not as bad as the retired pilot who […]