Tagged “travel”
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The hotel room problem
A bed, a chair, a wall and about a metre of floor. What that room can actually give you after a day of travel, using the furniture as equipment.
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Moving in a seat you can't leave
Seat pitch takes your legs away and leaves your hips and ankles. What's still available in a middle seat, described precisely enough to follow.
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Getting off a long flight
The stiffest you will be all trip is in the jet bridge, and there's nowhere private for another hour. What to do while you're still in the terminal.
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The airport between flights
A layover is the only unstructured time in a travel day, spent in a gate area with a bag you can't leave. How to use it instead of sitting through it.
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Being too tall for the seat
When your knees are already against the seat in front, most advice assumes room you don't have. What's left when the geometry is against you.
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The overnight coach
A seat that barely reclines, a dark cabin, sleeping neighbours and a journey measured in hours you were meant to be asleep for. What survives that.
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Standing on a packed train
No seat, one hand on a rail, no room to put a foot anywhere, and the floor moving under you. What the commute leaves available.
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The back seat on a long drive
Not a plane: no aisle, no getting up at all, and a stop that happens when the driver decides. What a car passenger has that a flyer doesn't.