Tag: flying

  • Defined by Flight – a Mini Life Update. 

    Defined by Flight – a Mini Life Update. 

    I feel like I have been defined by flight. By Qantas. That Platinum card (actually it’s down to Gold now). I’ve been traveling for work since 2005. I left my job in the lab on a Wednesday morning and flew to Singapore that afternoon for sales training. And I haven’t really stopped flying since. To…

  • Sometimes it’s the Journey (WPC)

    Sometimes it’s the Journey (WPC)

    To travel is to take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye. When I saw today’s prompt for the Weekly Photo Challenge (On The Way), where we are to present photos “of something you saw, did, or experienced on the way: photo not of your destination, but of an interesting thing along the way”, I…

  • Momentarily Terrified

    There’s a constant drone in an airplane. If you remove your headphones, you can listen to it. But inevitably you will stop hearing it. Until there’s a change in the frequency, the timbre of the sound. Then there’s that feeling in your tummy. Why did the sound change? You steal a few furtive glances at the…

  • View from Above (Rehab6)

    View from Above (Rehab6)

    It was another big day today. A very late night last night (I forgot I was on daylight savings time) and an early start today. I sacrificed breakfast for sleep and just stopped off for a coffee on the way to the office. We had meetings all day at work, plus a meeting after work then…

  • Today’s Airport Experience.

    Today’s Airport Experience.

    12:15am finally go to bed after a late night photography session 4:55am alarm…stupid alarm 5:04am snooze 1 ends, second stupid alarm 5:10am give up, get up 6:05am leave for airport, realise I need fuel, get fuel 6:40am arrive at airport 7:00am relax in Qantas lounge with coffee and yoghurt, catch up on blogs, FaceBook, Twitter…