Nicole – Page 2 – Flyin' Brian

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…
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.…
A Relaxing Workday

After a stressful week during which Nicole and I had to figure out how we were going to move out of our current residence due to some pretty intense fumigation of the entire complex. With that and wedding planning stress building up, I had a trip with a long layover in Palm Springs and found…
Lil’ Side Trip to Richmond

Since the end of last month, Nicole has been working for the show Homeland. It is filming its seventh season in Richmond, Virginia. Needless to say, it’s a long way from L.A. and there are no direct flights. It was a bit of a stressful day trying to get there. The first Delta gate agent…
Still in Denver…

Logbook: It’s Day 25. The others are starting to show signs of fatigue. As someone already working for the company, I did not have to attend the first two weeks of class like the majority of my class, so I have a slight edge in endurance, but barely. Over a week ago, we lost half…
Hot in the City

With Nicole in tow, we left Los Angeles last night for Tucson. It was a cool 97 when we touched down. Since I had a long overnight in Tucson, Nicole decided to rent a car. The following morning we drove east of the city to the Tanque Verde Ranch, the shooting location of Nickelodeon’s Hey…
Memorial Day Weekend in San Diego

My San Diego overnights are typically short, arriving in the evening and departing early in the morning. During this last four-day trip, I finally had a San Diego overnight of respectable length. Nicole even decided to join me by taking the short hop from LAX on American… in first class. Pretty swanky twenty minute flight…
Same Time Next Year?

Perhaps I previously mentioned, my March schedule is not ideal. I have been spending far more nights in Best Westerns and Hiltons than I have in my own bed. Every once in a while, I’m at least in one place for a decent amount of time. Today we flew four legs and ultimately arrived in…
Mo’ Bettah Da Kine

My schedule bid for January centered primarily around getting a week off toward the end of the month, so I could go to Kauai for my parents 40th anniversary. Along with my sister and her family, we stayed in a very nice place in Kapaa. It was a very welcome break from the back-to-back standups…
Salt Lake for Two

For some reason when building the schedules, the airline ends up creating these very long layovers — always in Salt Lake, and always saves them for me. Since I had almost an entire day in SLC, I invited Nicole to follow me there from LA. In fact, she rode in the back while I was…