When my daughter Samantha was 18 months old, we made the mistake of flying from Albany, New York, to Las Vegas — nonstop. It was like traveling with a chimpanzee. Contained in a metal tube for six hours with no understanding of her personal space, or anyone else’s, she wanted to run up and down the aisle and screamed when we tried to distract her with all the toys we had lugged on board.
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As the recent crash of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River illustrates, birds and aircraft don’t mix. Even though airplanes are substantially larger than the creatures they hit or that their engines ingest, birds can cause significant damage.
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Peggy dreams of Family Class. On these planes, the rear third would be a wide-open bouncy-castle-type space. No seats, no seat belts, no luggage racks. Nothing but four walls, a floor, and a ceiling full of soft, poofy air. Turbulence? All the more fun as it helps kids bounce higher.
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Our Disney World trip started falling apart from the minute we walked through the gate to the Magic Kingdom. Our four-day trip cost more than my first car—about $1,000/day including lodging at a mid-range Disney hotel, meals, snacks and airfare. Would we be able to salvage it?
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A vacation is often a change of mind and a change in situation. The paintball phenomenon offers a chance to do something different (for most of us) normally a short drive from home. Just as hiking, mountain biking and canoeing provide outdoor recreation, paintball fields are offering the great outdoors. Here’s Peggy Shinn’s take on what she calls the modern version of cowboys and Indians.
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