I travel a lot for work, and have on occasion been stuck at a layover over night. Luckily for the most part it was due to mechanical difficulties, which meant the airline had to put me up at a hotel. I recently read that that is becoming rarer as airlines reduce flights and costs. The article I was reading mentioned the Mini Motel, which is intriguing, but probably impractical to lug around on the off chance you might get stuck. (Checking it in, which I almost never do normally, won’t help because most forced overnight layovers leave the checked luggage on the plane.) So unless I can carry it onboard, it isn’t that useful.
Still, might be worth a look as a cheap sleeping bag.
posted by admin at 7:53 pm
There are a few quotes/passages that have profoundly affected me in the way I think or live each day. I think the three most important are the following:
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
- “Sail forth – steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.” — Walt Whitman
- I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
5 U.S.C. §3331
posted by admin at 9:25 am