{"id":1838,"date":"2021-03-01T07:07:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brighteyedsmiles.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:46:07","slug":"up-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brighteyedsmiles.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/up-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the sky."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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HAPPY PLACE.<\/h2>\n

My happy place used to be inside an airplane, in the air, above the clouds. I did my best thinking on the plane, my best sleeping on the plane, my best reading on the plane. I once woke up the passenger next to me laughing at a movie on a plane. It truly was my happy place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a way, I suppose it was, what some may call, ‘me’ time. It was the place I could put my phone into airplane mode, and hyper-focus on a topic of my choice. Even working on an airplane was more enjoyable for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the years I had my travel routine down to somewhat of a science. Staying hydrated, the do’s and don’ts of eating and drinking, when to sleep and when to stay awake. It all comes with time and experience. And knowing when to adjust and adapt specifically to your own needs.<\/p>\n

Yes, I flew enough to see disgruntled passengers, down-right rude passengers, sometimes smelly ones. But I also witnessed amazing compassion, people helping people and sweet connections. I especially loved when I was working out enough to be able to lift other people’s baggage into the overhead with confidence.<\/p>\n

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AMAZING BUT NOT GLAMOUROUS.<\/h2>

Never have I considered travel glamorous, perhaps this is due to my industry and mostly going to industrial parks. However, with work travel, there is limited or zero time to see the sights, even when in more interesting places. Brushing teeth on an airplane (especially when I had Invisalign) is NOT glamorous. Frequent flying comes with a handful of health risks, dealing with delayed flights. And depending on the airports and connections, flying can be a downright pain.\u00a0<\/p>

I am also 100% the person that is\u00a0doing these stretches in my seat.<\/a>\u00a0 After many long-ish flights over the Atlantic, and once over the Pacific, I’d rather be able to arrive to my destination bright eyed than worry about the looks I get in the plane (haha).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

My favorite route was Raleigh to London, the crew knew me from countless out and back trips. This might sound cool but… the mere fact that I was flying out on a Monday, arriving Tuesday morning to go straight to the office and flying back on Wednesday… packing was easy, let’s leave it at that.<\/p>

At the end of the day, though, we are in fact flying through the sky and the technology to do this is amazing.\u00a0 Flying single-handedly made the world ‘flat’, sped up commerce and allows most of us to see lands we wouldn’t have been able to even get to without it!\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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