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How to Pack a Suitcaseby Susana H. Case
My husband wants to make a video of me packing a suitcase for YouTube since we fly a lot. I go to my computer and learn that videos of “How to P...
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by Catherine. Dube
The Red KiteMilo found a red kite tangled in the old mango tree behind his house. Its tail was torn, and one wooden stick had snapped. He almost threw it away, but something about its bright color made him carry it insid...
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Suitcase Adventuresby Vivien Marx
My suitcase is far too plump but it closes and the zipper is strong. Some travelers manage a long trip with two t-shirts, three pieces of underwear, a...
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Luggage Merry-Go-Roundby Paul C. Dalmas
You know the moment. Bleary-eyed from a long air trip, you slouch at the baggage carousel with your fellow passengers sharing a single unspoken questi...
by Bernard Barnes
Airplane travel, I realize, is all about tension and release. It begins even before you leave the house. You pack your bags and agonize over what to b...
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Self-Loading Cargoby Bobby Schweizer
Looking at the bustling bodies in an airport or the rows of seated passengers in a plane, it would seem that air travel is about people. People take b...
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A Change of Flightby Rita de Costa
Even if I didn't have my nacrolepsy under control by that point, I thought I knew what I was doing—I thought I could manage the flight and t...
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America in Decline?by Jack Bernard
I think of myself as a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist. I try to take the long view and think positively about people and the world. Latel...
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A Raincoat in Tunisiaby Andy Shaindlin
My foreign study experience as a college student was in 1985. I spent six months in Brussels, arriving in January. Brussels in January—and Febru...
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Dominican Shuffleby Marisa Mangani
Twenty minutes into the flight and the plane’s ceiling tore open. Misty air fogged into the cabin. It had been a three-hour wait in the Miami ai...
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Cabin Pressureby Jeffrey Morgan
My father has a hot pink suitcase. When I don’t fly with him, I think about it. I think about it during descent. Maybe it’s the cabin pres...
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Matching Bagsby Marguerite Kenner
As we roll along on the granite floors of the concourse on our way to Gate 44, I feel a bit hypocritical about the handsome matching luggage my husban...
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Do You Suffer from Baggage Irregularity?by Gerry Holzman
I did, but I don’t anymore. On a non-stop US Airways flight from JFK to Phoenix, one of my suitcases went missing. Although I&...
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Other People’s Bagsby Catherine Miller
Miranda July wrote in a recent New Yorker that she used to steal her friends’ luggage and then get her friends to put in a false claim for the insur...
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Humiliation is a Part of Us Allby Greg Keeler
Delta had just absorbed Northwest and I didn't know which gate to check in at when I was returning home from D.C. a couple of summers ago, so I we...
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