My wish to time travel......or just win the lotto so I can fly first class.

Flying Hacks

If only I could transport myself halfway across the world, or be like "Bewitched" and wiggle my nose and time travel myself from Los Angeles to Venice, I would be one happy traveler. 

But in reality it's a long flight averaging around 13-15 hours. The older you get, the harder it is to travel those long distances, especially when you can't go first class. Economy feels like sheer torture, and the worst part of the whole trip as far as I'm concerned. So, I'm always trying to figure out some gimmick to make my flight easier. After listening to other well seasoned travelers, I decided to try their method of doing a stop over in the middle just so I can get up and walk around and eat, move, and break it up.  I also bought a leg sling for around $10 dollars on Amazon that you can hook up to your tray table to raise your legs. It only works if you are short or short legs. If you are tall like my husband, it won't work.

But this is what it looks like. 

My husband bought an inflatable pillow that was extremely easy to pack and blow up. You can put this on your lap and rest your head on it to fall asleep. You can put your arms in the holes and cross them over. It looks like this below that you can get on Amazon. for around 20-25 dollars. 

And of course we have the neck pillows that are great for not getting neck cramps when falling asleep. One other thing we do now is book aisle seats so we can get up more. And if the person by the window needs to get up, I certainly don't mind getting up and standing till they come back. I've tried Excedrin P.M.'s to sleep when I'm on the plane, but my husband doesn't like me taking them because it makes me groggy, and had to wake me up when he said I was cuddling up to the old man sleeping next to me. (I'm pretty sure he was exaggerating). 

So geared up for our long flight we start from L.A. to New York, and leave on a morning flight at 8:00 in the a.m. That seems kind of painless, and I watch movies all the way there. Our layover is 4 hours, but I'm fine with that as we stop and eat at a restaurant in the airport. It's not the greatest food, but I wasn't expecting much anyways. 

The next leg of the trip is like a red eye flight. It leaves at 9:00 p.m. but will arrive in Venice at 11:30 a.m. the next day. I want to sleep as much a possible so get all my gear ready. Sleeping sitting up in cramped airline seats is worse than going to the dentist and having a root canal as far as I'm concerned.  I keep wishing I won the lottery just so I could fly first class all the time. I would be in heaven if I could fly international in one of those pod loungers. I'm going to keep trying.