Gutentag: The Price of Adventure

 What would I do for a free flight to Europe?

Easy.

 

I would drive up and down the East Coast four times with my four kids (with the fourth one prone to car sickness.)

 

I would miss three flights out of three air force bases and still try for a fourth one. In Delaware.

 

I would load and unload our Clampett-style luggage four times and burn four million miles on route 95.

 

I would fly in a C-5, dressed in a snowsuit (for warmth) with ear plugs (to save eardrums) and a latrine (for tiny bladders).

 

So. What would I do for a gratis flight to Europe?

A lot.

Military space available flights are free.

But you pay in deeper crow’s feet and a shorter life expectancy.

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