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My entire issue with flying is not it taking a few hours. It’s that airlines make it as shitty as they can. They really go all out in that way.
Flying does suck.
They do pack people like sardines but I don’t think the airline industry is making big margins. If they didn’t treat you like shit there is a possibility that you might be priced out entirely.
You can always pay to be one of the pod people.
A half-year pilgrim sounds fantastic! Get a break from my job and explore the world, probably share the expenses and burden with other fellow pilgrims.
Sign me the fuck up now.
I live in a part of America where you can drive at 70 mph for 4 hours and still be in the middle of nowhere…💀
Tell me you live in Texas without telling me.
Nope, north eastern Nevada.
Unless you’re driving in the opposite direction.
Then you’re back somewhere
👁️ 🫦 👁️
5 hours out of a 3 day vacation w/ another 5 hours at the end. Also you’re gonna have to do some shit when you get back home to be ready for work on Monday.
Vs.
Hey we’re going to be traveling for 6 months, this is just your life now.
At least on a pilgrimage I can lie down
More than that. Planes are just fancy flying cattle trucks. A lot of the time I’m in one it’s so I can get to a destination I’ll be hiking for several days lol. I’m all for Team Pilgrimage.
The monks are not expected to increase shareholder profits in stale air and incessant fluorescent lighting.
At least the monks could vape.
Would you rather…
- 6-month boat ride to the Holy Land (you believe in it and it’s real),
OR
- 5-month plane ride to the 43rd Annual Corporate Circlejerk
5-month plane ride
Is the meeting on Mars?
…yes
I get vibes of “the king requests an audience so you need to travel 20 days to get to the capital” vibes. You need to waste 41-50 days of your life because your manager wants to talk to you face to face for a few minutes.
It’s a break from the tedium of subsistance sharecropping…
Do you think the king is going to send a laborer in your place?
That’s what your 16 kids are for, duh…
Also, the whole village likely cultivates the same fields, so it’s not like it’s some private landholding that will fallow if you’re not there to tend it. Long live the commons!
Well if modern travel wouldn’t be so upset with the whole “why did you murder them” response of “they were fucking annoying”, it would improve things drastically.
I just opened the door and tossed them out of it. They wouldn’t shut up about wanting the flight to end, and being back on the ground as fast as possible…
Now that baby in 16E…
Dude, you seem to have been for way too long inside an airplane.
I know, but they wouldn’t let me drive it. It’s just like gta, just gotta go full power. We would have been there by now if I was in charge…
An alternate version from the 1960s would show taking 3-5 days on a bus to take that 5 hour flight.
Plus, some of y’all ain’t never taken a 16 hour flight with a refuel stop at hour 12 and it shows.
I think the furthest I’ve flown direct is 14 hrs and they didn’t refuel. But normally I’m doing a layover/transfer somewhere so the 14 hrs is usually closer to 20 for total travel time
When I was in the US Air Force, I returned to the US on a flight they call the Milk Run. There were layovers in Aviano, Madrid, and th Azores Islands (that I can remember, at least). This was over 30 years ago, but if the Milk Run still exists, I would not recommend it.
“Milk run” is a generic term for routes with many stops, we have one here too :)
Trains over planes all day
Leisurely travel vs rush travel? Hmm, I wonder what is better and more enjoyable?!
We went from “the canterbury tales” to “travel vlogging couples”
This juxtaposition does not take into account airports, or airplane seats. I’d absolutely, preferentially fight off waves of brigands. At least you can move around and stretch.
Plus, you’d get to carry a sword and no one would bat an eye. I mean how cool is that?
