On the Road
#1
On the Road
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?
#2
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 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.
#3
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2006
Position: Former EMB 120 Jr. Water Boy, CRJ newbee
Posts: 373
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 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.
#5
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 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.
Cheers
#7
Layovers and overnights
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
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
#8
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.
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.
#9
Banned
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: A-320
Posts: 6,929
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
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....................
#10
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: CRJ
Posts: 2,356
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
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
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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