What did you cook or eat today (October 2023)?

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rascal said:
I cant fly more than 12 hrs. I usually split flight to uk with 2 day stopover in Bangkok. Dont know how you do it?

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When we still lived in Hawaii and would "go back east" aka HNL-BWI, it was 14-16 hours. We never booked it in segments, it wasn't cost effective. The shortest flights were from Hawaii to say California, but we hardly ever went there, it was always BWI or PHX.
We even had already booked a trip back east right, I mean right after 9-11, it was even worse.
 
Chicken fried steak, carrots and broccoli coins, and mashed potatoes. I got onions started for Craig and he made onion gravy for himself.

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Husband and I tagged-teamed making beef stew for dinner (he did the chopping, I did the rest). After that I quickly put together a double batch of pesto, using the basil we pulled out of the garden today. Froze it in ice cube trays to be pulled out over the winter as we need it.
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rascal said:
I cant fly more than 12 hrs. I usually split flight to uk with 2 day stopover in Bangkok. Dont know how you do it?

Russ
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Lack of choice.

First leg 9hrs
Stop over 6hrs
Second leg used to be much shorter but you can fly over Russia any more, so now 14hrs going up the Pacific coast, over the North Pole and then down.
Second so over should have been 10hrs. Now 36hrs.
3rd flight this pm is just 3hrs.

The return flights are similar but 1st is just a 'puddle jumper' as they call them in Aus... Manchester to London, then London to Tokyo, and Tokyo to Sydney.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Lack of choice.

First leg 9hrs
Stop over 6hrs
Second leg used to be much shorter but you can fly over Russia any more, so now 14hrs going up the Pacific coast, over the North Pole and then down.
Second so over should have been 10hrs. Now 36hrs.
3rd flight this pm is just 3hrs.

The return flights are similar but 1st is just a 'puddle jumper' as they call them in Aus... Manchester to London, then London to Tokyo, and Tokyo to Sydney.
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I dont do airport stops for hours. Just cant.

Russ
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Lack of choice.

First leg 9hrs
Stop over 6hrs
Second leg used to be much shorter but you can fly over Russia any more, so now 14hrs going up the Pacific coast, over the North Pole and then down.
Second so over should have been 10hrs. Now 36hrs.
3rd flight this pm is just 3hrs.

The return flights are similar but 1st is just a 'puddle jumper' as they call them in Aus... Manchester to London, then London to Tokyo, and Tokyo to Sydney.
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They are called "puddle jumpers" in the US, too. Canadair CRJ regional jets are popular for those flights, and I smack my head on the overhead bin at least once every time I'm on one of those things.

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Craig flew to New Zealand once for a job. The California flight to New Zealand was 12+ hours. I don't remember how long the flight was from South Florida to Cali was. He ended up traveling for nearly a whole day with layovers. I only remember the time to NZ because a woman on the flight with him literally dropped dead while waiting in line for customs because she threw a blood clot from sitting so long. You can be assured that he got up and walked up and down aisle every couple of hours on a long flight after that.
 
rascal said:
I dont do airport stops for hours. Just cant.

Russ
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We've missed too many connections when we've had even 3hrs spare previously and missing long haul flights through no fault of our own is problematic to say the least. They'll sort it all out for you but it takes lots of time off your holiday. Last time we had only just landed in Heathrow when our connection was taxiing out onto the runway. They tried to put us up in a hotel at 6am to put us on a flight to Manchester the following day! It doesn't take more than 3-4hrs to drive it and they wanted us to stay in London for 24-30hrs for a later flight the following day. We only had 10 days in the UK as it was that time round. No way was I spending over 10% of the time we had in the UK in a London airport hotel.
 
medtran49 said:
Craig flew to New Zealand once for a job. The California flight to New Zealand was 12+ hours. I don't remember how long the flight was from South Florida to Cali was. He ended up traveling for nearly a whole day with layovers. I only remember the time to NZ because a woman on the flight with him literally dropped dead while waiting in line for customs because she threw a blood clot from sitting so long. You can be assured that he got up and walked up and down aisle every couple of hours on a long flight after that.
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Yikes. That's bad.
My doctor puts me on blood thinners for travel now since my PEs a few years back. They were blood clots that broke free from my life saving surgery on my neck. I also wear medical compression stockings as well. I'm watching a sore spot on the front of my shin at the moment. It's not exactly the right place for a clot but I don't remember knocking it, though it doesn't mean I haven't. The 2nd leg of the flight saw our legs swell badly. We went for a very long walk yesterday around Helsinki just to clear some of that swelling. It knew it was working when half way around the lake we were walking around, I had to stop to relace both boots because they were now too loose not too tight!
 
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