20 hours in the air

I don’t understand why, no matter how much water I drink and how carefully I eat, I wind up getting sick on long flights.

When I flew to Africa six years ago I made the bonehead mistake of taking a pill to help me sleep and wound up sick as a dog for the last 12 hours of flying. So this time I didn’t take any drugs and made sure to drink tons of water. But at hour 17 found myself hunched over in the airplane bathroom, wondering if I was going to get sucked out of the little hole and shot into the atmosphere at 33,000 feet.

“Rob was a good husband and programmer. He crystallized before he hit terminal velocity.”

After 20 hours of flight I exited the plane to the smell of the humid African air and realized that the trip was worth it.

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