Crowe
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OK if you are flying first class. Try back in the sardine class. NEVER Again!!!!!
So I'll admit to being spoiled!  I'll be flying in the "sardine class" when I go to Disney next spring. Flying JetBlue so there isn't any first class, nor would I waste the money on such a short flight. There are advantages to each. My preference is usually the motorhome, but living in such a polarized part of the country makes it difficult to see a lot when you've only got a few weeks vacation per year and you don't want to spend it all in a vehicle. Not denying that motels/hotels don't have their issues, either, but I've discovered living paranoid just isn't any fun. Except for the people who are out to get me! 
Life is too short to spend it all in one place!
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Deb and Ed M
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Oh - I hope I'm not being paranoid....LOL!! Actually - I simply hate to fly. Period. Hate the hassle/crowds/motion sickness meds I need to take. My hip sets off the metal detectors so I get sent to the "grope box". The smell of jet exhaust makes me nauseous. I hate being crammed into a seat for hours. I hate not being able to take along extra "stuff".
Any excuse I can find to NOT fly will work ;-)
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covetsthesun
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Deb and Ed M wrote:Oh - I hope I'm not being paranoid....LOL!! Actually - I simply hate to fly. Period. Hate the hassle/crowds/motion sickness meds I need to take. My hip sets off the metal detectors so I get sent to the "grope box". The smell of jet exhaust makes me nauseous. I hate being crammed into a seat for hours. I hate not being able to take along extra "stuff".
Any excuse I can find to NOT fly will work ;-)
Doesn't sound like you need any excuses!!! If your hip sets off the alarms I think you can get a medical certificate for flying purposes. Might help avoid the grope box. Although...now you might get the "I can see everything you've got" box! I used to like flying. Now...I only do it when it will save me a lot of time (and $$), non stops only. I'd rather drive to avoid the crowds and people though. cts
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Crowe
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My hip sets off the metal detectors so I get sent to the "grope box".
OMG, I'm going to piddle me britches if I don't stop laughing after that comment! I don't like flying, either, although I'm not quite as bad as you. I like the results of flying. Never would have made it to Alaska or Hawaii any other way. Now, if you want paranoia, I will NEVER take a cruise because I'm afraid of getting that stupid Norwalk virus!
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belfert
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I am flying to Atlanta in a few weeks. I considered driving, but it would take an extra four days to drive. To take the motorhome would double the cost of the trip.
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ShapeShifter
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covetsthesun wrote:If your hip sets off the alarms I think you can get a medical certificate for flying purposes. Might help avoid the grope box.
DW just got a shiney new hip, and a little plastic official card for her wallet to use at such security check points. Do those cards actually help at all?
We haven't flown yet since she got it, and I'm just curious what we're up against? I'd be more than happy to take the MH everywhere, but it will be hard to drive it to Puerto Rico for the winter cruise departure we're considering.
Crowe wrote:Now, if you want paranoia, I will NEVER take a cruise because I'm afraid of getting that stupid Norwalk virus!
Uh-oh! Something else to be paranoid about? Maybe we should reconsider that cruise! 
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Leo Benson
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I got the grope box last week because I packed 5 cans of pumkin in my carry on. I don't check luggage anymore because a) I don't want it out of my sight, in case they lose it or my flight gets changed, and b) because except for Southwest, they all charge extra.
There's been a shortage of pumpkin in New England, so when in MO, after looking thru 3 grocery stores, I found 5 cans and bought them all.
TSA thought I was crazy. They searched me, my luggage, and bomb-tested the pumpkin cans. But they let me KEEP it. Guess who had pumpkin pie for breakfast?! Thank you TSA and especially the agent who said, "Man , it just aint Thanksgiving without the pumpkin pie"!
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msmith1199 wrote:If you keep your life too clean, then your immune system won't be as strong. Getting some germs might be a good thing. My wife's mother was a clean freak and my wife never got chicken pox as a kid. Instead she got them when she was an adult. You are much better off getting chicken pox as a kid.
I've had it on both ends, as chicken pox and as shingles. No, thanks.
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Deb and Ed M
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ShapeShifter wrote:
DW just got a shiney new hip, and a little plastic official card for her wallet to use at such security check points. Do those cards actually help at all?
We haven't flown yet since she got it, and I'm just curious what we're up against? I'd be more than happy to take the MH everywhere, but it will be hard to drive it to Puerto Rico for the winter cruise departure we're considering.
Here's what happened the last time I flew: the hip sets off the metal detector. The card (I have one, too) means NOTHING to them - any terrorist could make a similar card.
So you get sent to the "wand" person - and the wand picks up ANY metal. Not just the hip - it picked up my underwire bra, also. And ever since a couple of women tried to carry explosives onto a plane tucked in their bras...... THAT's when you get sent to the "Grope Box" :-(
The Grope Box is a plexiglass room in the middle of the gate entry...where a female attendant politely feels to make sure you have on an underwire bra with no "extras". Of course EVERY PERSON boarding the plane gets to watch this process.....
So that's why I prefer the MH
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Chock Full o' Nuts
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ShapeShifter wrote:
The opposite happened to me just last week. Last day of the trip I caught a nasty cold, even though I was in the RV and not a plane. It sure was nice that I could delay the return trip, stay an extra day, and be comfortable in my own little "cocoon" in my own bed, and not have to stay in a hotel or travel while I felt so crappy (and expose others!)
Yep, sure love having the MH around!
Seconds to that. My DH became seriously ill when we were traveling across the west. He has severe lung disease and he got pneumonia. He was one sick puppy, but because we were in our RV we were able to hole up in Vegas for a week, at $30/night(Oasis) Bedrest,chicken soup, fruit popsicles, and ginger ale, plus heavy duty antibiotics and some oxygen fixed him right up.
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