Passengers

Market studies suggest space

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Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker’s trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That’s what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest. G. Harry … Read more

I fear that I

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I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I’d never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google … Read more

The air is annoyingly

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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke … Read more

During this period Steen

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During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was ‘pilot error,’ but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. … Read more

(knitting while on a

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(knitting while on a motorcycle) \”For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned … Read more

As the bus slowed

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As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, \”Six only!\” The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: \”So sorry, plenty of room in my heart – … Read more

Night and day the

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans … Read more

Many people have traveled

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Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road… Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication… the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger … Read more