Originally Posted by Blackhawk (Post 2892995)

Good grief. What a bunch of sniveling whiners. Get out of your %^*+#* rooms and enjoy life. Your Airline is sending you places, enjoy them. Is every place Paris, Hong Kong or London? No. But there is stuff to do even on a regional budget and in “Fly Over Country”. One of my favorite overnights was one in OKC when my crew went to a minor league game in Brickyard. It was maybe $5 to get in and I bought the beer. Hot dogs were also cheap. Another time an all female crew “made” me go to a fashion exposition in Montreal as “punishment” for me making them ride bikes with me to a brewery. Another time an all gay crew took me around to gay bars. Not my cup of tea, but it was a memorable experience and they bought the beer for a change.
It’s funny, the regional pilots who won’t leave their rooms are the same ones who stay in the hotel when we go to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Tokyo. Life is for the living. Put down the video games and go out and live.

Originally Posted by Air Stang 7 (Post 2893320)

I like to wear orange pajamas and pretend I'm a prison inmate and flush those sugar packets down the toilet like they're contraband for the full experience.

Originally Posted by ninerdriver (Post 2893385)

Make pruno in your bathroom sink on long overnights.

MAKE YOUR OWN PRUNO AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.

Originally Posted by rswitz (Post 2892678)

Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.

Originally Posted by ninerdriver (Post 2892360)

Geocaching is a good way to turn boring places into not-so-boring places. Most hotels have at least a couple of caches nearby, and difficulty ranges from "that was easy" to "where the **** is that thing." All that you need to start is a phone and the app.

Originally Posted by No Land 3 (Post 2893276)

Excellent advice for some one that actually likes people

Originally Posted by rswitz (Post 2892678)

Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.

Originally Posted by wrxpilot (Post 2897892)

I don’t like people, but I still get out and do stuff. When I was at the regionals, I did lots of hiking, and even did some pretty cool mountain biking a few times. If nothing else, I’d go for really long walks and explore/take pictures of weird stuff I found.

Now that I’m at a major and fly only international trips, I have long layovers and still go hiking, check out cool museums (recently found an amazing car museum in Tokyo), find weird street markets, etc. Most importantly for me, I love exploring and sampling the different types of foods!

A lot of our guys like to just go out and drink and may not even get past the local Irish/western bar. As I grow older, I’m finding that to be pretty boring and horrible for sleep. Anything I can do that isn’t that is my goal.