The Friday Five is back!

[magnetic_pole]

I've been thinking that I want to post here more often in 2018, because I truly enjoy keeping up with those of you who post regularly. I don't have much fannish content these days, and I'm not always good about updating on my own life, but two weeks ago alisanne suggested just the solution: thefridayfive, a DW community with weekly prompts. An excuse to get me writing when I'm enjoying the boring routine of everyday life and finding little to post about.



1. Where did you go the last time you took an airplane ride?

Hm. Cleveland, OH, for a professional conference. Direct flight, hurrah! I fly out of a smaller airport (DCA, the smallest of the three DC-area airports) because it's so close to me, but the price of that convenience is that I take a *lot* of connecting flights. (Like connecting in NYC between DC and Boston. It's all a little ridiculous.)

2. Are you a nervous flyer or a comfortable flyer?

Comfortable. Driving strikes me as dangerous--I've been in multiple car accidents myself, as have most people I know--and yet I've never known anyone to be hurt on a flight.

3. Window seat or aisle seat?

Window! never miss the chance to look out and see the city. Night flights are especially gorgeous. During a daytime departure, if the flight path's right, I can see my apartment building as I take off from my local airport.

4. What is the worst experience you've had flying?

Honestly, I haven't had many. Lots and lots of delays of course, but nothing overnight, so I can't complain. I suppose the worst was when I took sleeping pills on a trans-Pacific flight and didn't realize passengers would need to disembark on the way home. (Not sure why this was--it was billed as a non-stop flight, but there was a crew change in Bangkok.) I stumbled through customs and boarding feeling ill and completely disembodied before we all got back on the same plane and continued on.

Like I said, nothing to complain about!

5. What is the best experience you've had flying?

Getting there! A few years ago, the subway extended service on one of its lines up to my part of the city, so that I can now walk fifteen minutes, get on the subway, and disembark twenty minutes later AT THE AIRPORT ITSELF. So convenient.

By the way, I challenged my quieter flisters to post 17 times in 2017, and I think some of you met that challenge (and more) and now are entitled to a drabble. I'll follow up on that this week. Ready yourselves with prompts!

Also, I just discovered that DW has not been cross-posting my posts to LJ in months. (Sorry, LJ folks. I thought you were just being unusually quiet.) Has anyone else had that problem?

Comments

[ancientreader]

I dunno how cheap Russell Square hotels are anymore. Two trips ago I stayed at the Academy, on Gower Street, and quite liked it, but when I emailed to reserve a room with a bathtub for the latest trip, they told me they were remodeling and getting rid of all their tubs. Fooey on them, but anyway I don't know what they cost. (We wound up renting a flat via HomeAway.) Great neighborhood to stay in, though -- so close to the British Museum, and such an easy walk to the National Gallery and the West End. Plus, if you're at all a foodie, the restaurant choice around there is wonderful, ranging from light on the wallet to OH MY GOD.

[magnetic_pole]

Ah! We've stayed along Gower Street, too, in the kind of hotel that had shared baths and old bathtubs and may not anymore! When did the world get so upscale? Our friends live in South London, and so my thought was to find something on the north side of the river when we were on our own. Hm. I will start investigating this. Your posts were very inspiring. :) M.