Gunday Brunch 230: Airport Travel and Guns is Easy

I'll tell you what, you know when time is a construct is when you are on a transatlantic flight that leaves at like eight o'clock at night, right? So for people who don't know, there is a direct flight.

It is the longest flight.

a direct flight that you can take on any Delta route.

And it goes from Atlanta to Joburg in South Africa.

And depending on the wind and this, that, and the other thing, it's 17 hours.

And that's so disorienting because even if you sleep on the plane, right? Like, and I did, I managed to sleep.

I normally struggle sleeping on planes, but I had a pretty good sleep.

When

it's that long, you can usually manage some of it.

Oh, I had a pretty good strategy for this one.

So I didn't eat the in-flight meal.

I made sure I ate a good-sized meal at normal dinner time.

And then when I was actually on the plane, I just drank whiskey until I was super sleepy.

And then I went to sleep for about six hours.

But that's the crazy thing is I go to sleep for six hours, and then I wake up, and there's still fucking 10 hours of flight time left.

Yeah.

And you land, because it's such a long flight, you land at night.

So you take off at night, and you land at night, and it's really disorienting going from Atlanta to Jayburg.

It's less disoriented in coming back because you take off at night, you sleep, and you land in the morning.

And so, like, you just kind of got to suck it up and power through that day.

But also, on the way back, we were late departing.

So the pilots were like, you know what we're going to do? Let's just park this thing in the Gulf Stream tailwind and let that bitch push us along at an extra, you know.

And so the first, I don't know, four hours of the flight.

We didn't intend

this to be a flight episode, but man.