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March in Tucson . . .with Nicole!
Despite having built up almost ten years of seniority at the airline, my schedule seems to be getting worse. What a fine thank you for my service. With that being said, I was given a 3-day trip with two Tucson overnights back to back. I thusly tried to entice Nicole to join me on this…
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Meet Me in St Louis . . .and Stay Awhile
After concluding a successful week and a half in Denver for systems and procedures validations, my captain upgrade class was all sent to St. Louis for simulator training. I had a couple days off in Denver before flying to St. Louis, where I would have one last free day before I was expected to start…
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Extended Sojourn in New Jersey
It was June. Restaurants were opening, children were laughing, birds were singing. Also, the virus was spreading at record speed. So needless to say, there was some conflicting messaging going on. When things first looked like they might be improving in early June, Nicole and I looked into going to the Azores in Portugal since…
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The Covid
Since my last post, a lot has happened. Very quickly after returning on our (completely full) flight from Orlando back to Los Angeles, things began to shut down due to Covid19. California became the first state to issue a stay-at-home order. With shocking speed, the second biggest city in the country transformed into an unrecognizable…
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USWNT in O-Town
In the last couple years, Nicole and I have lost count of how many times we have seen the U.S. Women’s National Team. We have seen them take on Chile, Belgium, and Canada in Los Angeles, and of course traveled to France to watch their World Cup opener. We are basically their best fans and…
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Nicole visits the Lost Coast
As far as I know, this is only my second overnight in Eureka since I’ve been working for the airlines. The first time was way back during my IOE (training flights) for the CRJ. I was supposed to be in Eureka for double overnights about two months ago or so, but the fog that is…
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Vancouver & Surrey
It has been a busy month, and I find myself flying even when I’m not flying. Nicole’s movie got into a film festival in Vancouver, so we made an effort to attend. The nonrev game is not for everyone and a lot of legwork (literally) to get to Vancouver from LAX. Our first priority was…
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Po-Town and the Hudson Valley
It was not easy to get from Houston to the Hudson Valley. Our initial plan to go to Detroit and connect did not look promising, so we went to Atlanta instead. Once there, we did not get on our intended flight to White Plains, and we weren’t going to get on the next one either.…
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G-g-g-ghosts?!!!
At least from my own experience, trying to get a standby seat on a direct flight from Newark to Los Angeles is a near impossibility. Out of the previous five times I have been in New Jersey visiting Nicole, I have ended up in the jumpseat five times. . . including one time where I…
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Bricole Take On Guanajuato
After months of tired and outlandish excuses like, “I have to work…,” Nicole finally gave in and joined me on a red-eye flight to Léon, Mexico. Nicole, incidentally has been to some pretty interesting places around the globe ranging from Sri Lanka to Albania and Bosnia. Until last week, she had not been to Canada.…
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