Flight Hum...

I am sitting in the O'Hare Airport's Urban Garden taking advantage of the free electricity and long layover. Good time to write a post. I will board about 8:00pm tonight from Chicago to Abu Dhabi and that flight is about 16 hours. I've been on it a few times and I hate to say it, but it never gets shorter. Traveling to India is a long hard trip. It’s well worth it though.  My flight plan is from Minneapolis to Chicago through Abu Dhabi then finally to Cochin. I will land in Cochin around 3:00am local time Tuesday morning (but that is Monday evening about 5:00pm for my Midwestern friends).  I am traveling on Etihad Airlines. I am a fan of this airliner. They have nice planes and friendly air hosts.  I probably won’t be able to post a blog when I get to Abu Dhabi, my layover is rather short. Just enough time to go through the security checks and throw elbows to the front of the line to board the plane. Trust me when you board the flight to Cochin all manners must be tossed aside as Indian rules will then apply. All my Indian friends are nodding in agreement as they read this.

My flight strategy is to be sleepy and slightly drunk when I board. This is a tried and true way to sleep through the hum of a 787’s massive roar. I have successfully slept almost the whole way through without sleep aids in the past. Let’s see how I fare this time.

Travel is exciting, but the actual flying and sitting in lonely airports part kinda sucks. I will tell you all a secret. I have a silly ritual when I fly. I say a little prayer for myself and all others on the flight as our cabin lifts into the air. It just seems like a comforting thing to do. I also listen to the song "I Can't See New York" by Tori Amos before I fly. I've done that ever since she wrote the song. Every time I board an airplane I play it as soon as we get to main altitude and the pressure in my ears settle. It is one of my favorite songs ever written. If familiar with the song it seems like an odd choice, some could say it could be dark, but I find it to be so amazing to hear when floating above the world far above where any person should ever naturally be. What can I say. I'm odd and my habits follow at times.

…From here

no lines are drawn
From here
no lands are owned
13,000 and Holding
Swallowed in the purring
of her Engines
tracking the Beacon here
"Is there a Signal
there on the other side"

On the other side?

What do you mean side of what things?

….and you said
you would find me here
and you said
you would find me
even in Death
and you said
and you said
You'd find me

But I can't see New York
As I'm circling down
through white cloud
Falling out and I know
his lips are warm
but I can't seem to find
my way out
my way out
of your hunting ground

From here
crystal meth
In meters of millions
In the end all we have,
soul blueprint.
and did we get lost in it
do we conduct a search for this
"from the other side"
From the other side?
What do they mean
side of what things...

I Hum from the other side…

I’m on my way see you on the other side.

Namaste,

Christy