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Home On The Range

lut-22-2005 By

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 […]

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Over The Pole To The Orient

lut-15-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-02-14-ask-the-captain_x.htm
Over The Pole To The Orient
This week I flew a trip originating from NewYork’s Kennedy Airport instead of from my ownChicago base. Being on reserve means I’m veryjunior in my position seniority-wise. I flyleftover trips that aren’t otherwise covered. Maybe someone has called in sick, or taken somevacation, or whatever. It’s not that unusual thatwe’re sent to another base to cover a trip.
I had my choice this day to fly right back toLondon, where I flew my most recent trip, or totake this trip to Tokyo. Even though London wasso much fun and I’m anxious to go back, I neededthe extra flight time for the month and opted forthe Tokyo trip.
When I spoke with the dispatcher for the flightfrom JKF to Narita I asked her if we would fly thesame basic route as we would out of Chicago—acrossCanada and […]

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A Very High Tea

lut-8-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
“A Very High Tea”
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-02-07-ask-the-captain_x.htm
What a fun week this was as I flew my first trip
to London! The last time I was in London I was
just eighteen and only there for a few days. That
was over thirty years ago. I was broke and stayed
in the outskirts of London at a place called
Pister’s Palace in an area called Child’s Hill.
My “room” was actually a narrow bed which was the
upper bunk in what amounted to a hallway filled
with bunkbeds. These were all occupied by other
necessarily frugal students like me. I had arrived
from France via Hovercraft over the English
Channel to Dover, and from there I took the train
up to London.
This time I flew in as an airline captain and was
treated to a wonderful day of exploring in
Westminster, where much of the “good stuff” is:
Buckingham Palace, Victoria Station, Parliament
and Big Ben, etc. I got lots of pictures after
fearing it […]

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