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What is the lifestyle like on the road? What do you do when you are not flying? Do you sit in your hotel room and just watch t.v? Also how do you balance life on the road with a family?
I arrived in hotel at HPN around 2pm today. Here's what I've done (just as an example):
I changed clothes, watched some TV, ate some lunch, wasted some time on the internet, talked to my wife on the phone, ran 4 miles on a treadmill and did some abs in the workout room, ate some dinner, took a shower, watched two episodes of Scrubs, and now I'm wasting more time on the internet. I'll talk to my wife again shortly and go to bed early because I have an early show tomorrow.
Now replace a craphole like HPN with a lovely spot like Wilmington, NC for example:
Change clothes, go downstairs and meet the crew, go walk down the riverwalk, eat some dinner and drink some Yuengling at Elijahs or George's right on the river, walk back to hotel, watch some tv, go to Port City Java for an awesome cup of coffee, go back to the hotel, watch the sun set over the river, talk to the wife on the phone, go to bed thinking "this overnight kicks ass, too bad I'm gonna be stuck in that craphole LGA Clarion tomorrow."
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
I arrived in hotel at HPN around 2pm today. Here's what I've done (just as an example):
I changed clothes, watched some TV, ate some lunch, wasted some time on the internet, talked to my wife on the phone, ran 4 miles on a treadmill and did some abs in the workout room, ate some dinner, took a shower, watched two episodes of Scrubs, and now I'm wasting more time on the internet. I'll talk to my wife again shortly and go to bed early because I have an early show tomorrow.
Now replace a craphole like HPN with a lovely spot like Wilmington, NC for example:
Change clothes, go downstairs and meet the crew, go walk down the riverwalk, eat some dinner and drink some Yuengling at Elijahs or George's right on the river, walk back to hotel, watch some tv, go to Port City Java for an awesome cup of coffee, go back to the hotel, watch the sun set over the river, talk to the wife on the phone, go to bed thinking "this overnight kicks ass, too bad I'm gonna be stuck in that craphole LGA Clarion tomorrow."
Your mileage will likely vary.
Sounds like my life but just out on the west coast. However the overnights here on the pacific and pacific northwest are a little nicer than HPN and LGA in my opinion!
Position: Former EMB 120 Jr. Water Boy, CRJ newbee
Posts: 365
Forgot to add that I catch up on a LOT of sleep from being busy at home with the wife and child and commuting about 2000 miles to work almost every week!
I arrived in hotel at HPN around 2pm today. Here's what I've done (just as an example):
I changed clothes, watched some TV, ate some lunch, wasted some time on the internet, talked to my wife on the phone, ran 4 miles on a treadmill and did some abs in the workout room, ate some dinner, took a shower, watched two episodes of Scrubs, and now I'm wasting more time on the internet. I'll talk to my wife again shortly and go to bed early because I have an early show tomorrow.
Now replace a craphole like HPN with a lovely spot like Wilmington, NC for example:
Change clothes, go downstairs and meet the crew, go walk down the riverwalk, eat some dinner and drink some Yuengling at Elijahs or George's right on the river, walk back to hotel, watch some tv, go to Port City Java for an awesome cup of coffee, go back to the hotel, watch the sun set over the river, talk to the wife on the phone, go to bed thinking "this overnight kicks ass, too bad I'm gonna be stuck in that craphole LGA Clarion tomorrow."
Your mileage will likely vary.
I was born and raised in Wilmington. Great place. I surely miss it. Say hello to the battleship for me the next time.
At first there is some enthusiasm to venture out however after the tenth time at each destination you will quickly exhaust all avenues for doing anything that is interesting at all. Usually there is no money to eat out with or to do much anyway.
Most of the time you will waste half of your life away alone in a concrete hotel room and think of all the fun your freinds are having at home.
On layovers you try to find a quiet place away from your own gates in the terminal to read left behind news papers. Great fun.
Skyhigh
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Earn a living as a pilot but have no life. Have a life but earn no living.
On 4 hour layovers, I have:
a. taken a take a portable DVD player and put that NetFlix membership to use
b. slept on the airplane
c. read a book
d. reviewed FOM, SOP, ASM (lots of fun)
e. listen to iPod / watch Podcasts
f. walk around the terminal looking at women
On a side note, where are you going that there is NOT a crew room? Even the BFE Colgan outstation airports had some kind of makeshift crew room.
At first there is some enthusiasm to venture out however after the tenth time at each destination you will quickly exhaust all avenues for doing anything that is interesting at all. Usually there is no money to eat out with or to do much anyway.
Most of the time you will waste half of your life away alone in a concrete hotel room and think of all the fun your freinds are having at home.
On layovers you try to find a quiet place away from your own gates in the terminal to read left behind news papers. Great fun.
Skyhigh
HAHAHA sad very sad, and partly true if I dont HAVE A GOOD CREW Ill get some food and watch TV. thats what a lot of people do at home anyway without the pestering from the wife/Girlfriend. If you have a good crew you can have a lot of fun, like the time me and the CA went to Chihuahua Mexico and for only $30.00 we both got....................well lets just say you can have fun on overnights and if the cities blow and the crew is boring, I enjoy being by myself I spend hours on this site, pay bills, watch the Yanks kick ass etc etc........... I will say I feel like its a Jailbreak when I am off the bus walking to my car in F lot, homefree I am lucky to live in base I trade a lot of 4-days for day trips two days etc....................
At first there is some enthusiasm to venture out however after the tenth time at each destination you will quickly exhaust all avenues for doing anything that is interesting at all. Usually there is no money to eat out with or to do much anyway.
Most of the time you will waste half of your life away alone in a concrete hotel room and think of all the fun your freinds are having at home.
On layovers you try to find a quiet place away from your own gates in the terminal to read left behind news papers. Great fun.
Skyhigh
no wonder you quit flying. i have been to boston probably 100 times and never get tired of going out on the ferry or heading to the boston market and all the other cool stuff there is to do there. not saying everytime i go to boston i head out, some times its nice to relax. ask me how many times i have been to the museum at IAD, or the beach in ft meyers, or the mall in washington, the beach in pensacola, sixflags in dallas, the hershey factory near mdt, and the list goes on, and on... these are things that people can only dream of. OH AND GUESS WHAT,, my WIFE HAS BEEN TO ALL THOSE PLACES WITH ME, and we have a great time. i told my buddy who is a doctor that i was going up to toronto and had a 22 hour layover, we went to the needle, hung out downtown, got some sushi, went to the pier and had a good time. he told me that he hates going on vacations because when he gets back he will have such a back log of patients that his usual 12 hour day will be a 14-16 one for at least a month. yeah my friend is really having a good time at home.
as for long sits in airports if it is 5 hours the company has to give us a hotel room. if its less than that then i go down into the ops area, read my book, watch some tv, and a lot of times just take a nap.
come on skyhigh, everytime you say something you show us a little more of your personallity, i bet flying a 2 day with you seemed like a 5 day.
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Even the BFE Colgan outstation airports had some kind of makeshift crew room.
............well lets just say you can have fun on overnights and if the cities blow and the crew is boring, I enjoy being by myself I spend hours on this site, pay bills, watch the Yanks kick ass etc etc........... I will say I feel like its a Jailbreak when I am off the bus walking to my car in F lot, homefree 
I am lucky to live in base I trade a lot of 4-days for day trips two days etc....................
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