May 9th 2012 08:21 am Art for art’s sick
OK, I never really saw a painting called “Road Kill” at the aforementioned art festival. I did see a lot of cute paintings, though.
What I started to tell you yesterday about Paris, Tennessee, was that my friend who was born there remembers when the town was served by an airline. Now, this is a town that a year ago had 10,000 people, and it probably didn’t have that many a generation ago. Yet, incredible as it seems today, Paris was served briefly by Southern Airways. (You can find just about anything on the Internet, and some of it might even be true!) It wasn’t so unusual as it sounds. Many small cities and large towns were served by regional airlines that after the war flew mostly DC-3s, said to be perhaps the most successful aircraft ever built. When I moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, a young man just out of college in 1975, something called Florida Airlines was flying the venerable plane in and out of that small coastal town at a regular clip. I wish I’d taken a flight when I had the chance.
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61 Responses to “Art for art’s sick”
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 09 May 2012 at 8:34 am #
I flew on a few prop planes over the years and I don’t think that you are missing too much in regards to the DC-3. I find the jets of today to be much smoother. Of course I can remember getting a lunch on a plane too.
One of the first planes that I flew was a 19 seat “cigar” with no flight attendant. I have often wondered why airlines offer drinks and snacks on flights, especially short hops. I realize the need for attendants for safety issues, but what other industry offers a snack with your purchase?
Mindy on 09 May 2012 at 8:48 am #
Jimmy, I don’t know if it’s true or not but I do tend to believe him on this one, but John swears that he was once on a venerable DC-3 “Gooney Bird” at ________ airport in ______ and then the plane made it’s turn to taxi onto the runway for takeoff the starboard engine…fell off. Plop. No major fire, he says, but his description of how it scared the unmentionable-here-matter out of him makes me laugh and that’s why I tend to believe him.
Mary D in MN on 09 May 2012 at 8:50 am #
I think the main benefit of food service on airplanes is to distract those of us who are nervous fliers. I miss the days of beverage service, followed by a complete meal with all the little plastic dishes and utensils needing to be individually unwrapped, followed by coffee service. Kept one busy for a whole two hour flight.
Sam in Alabam(a) on 09 May 2012 at 8:53 am #
I flew on Southern Airways DC-3′s for years while in the Navy, most often out of Columbus, GA, but even out of places like Tuscaloosa. For a few years, cities the size of Auburn, AL, were served by small commuter airlines, although it was about 50/50 whether the plane would take off or whether they’d load you into a van for the two-hour drive to the Atlanta airport.
How many recall the classic Southern Airways “one-class” commercials of the 70′s? The most memorable being the one showing a competing airline’s passenger passing through first class into a coach section that was like the boxcar from “Dr. Zhivago:” No light, no windows, people sitting on the floor, stewpot in the middle of the floor, poultry wandering around.
RIP Southern Airways. You disappeared into Republic Airlines in 1979.
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 09 May 2012 at 9:03 am #
My first plane flight was in December, 1966, flying home to Cincinnati for Christmas break from University of Michigan, on a Lake Central Airlines DC-3. We took off from Detroit and barely got the wheels up before we started our descent for our first stop, Toledo. Then off on a longer hop to Columbus, with a box lunch. Then a shorter one to Dayton, and then finally to Cincinnati, which is actually in N. Kentucky.
I had a window seat and loved all of the take-offs and landings and the low altitude, slow flight.
I was able to afford the trip because the airline had just introduced “student standby” fares. $13 each way, or 1/3 the normal $39 fare. Cheaper than Greyhound!
Jerry in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 9:22 am #
The good ol’ days. You walked outside and up the stairs into the plane while your family waved goodbye through the chainlink fence. If you already had your ticket you went from your car to the plane unless you needed to check in your luggage.
Jerry in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 9:26 am #
I’ve been to West Virginia and North Carolina, but never had the occasion to visit North Kentucky.
Russell Way Out There on 09 May 2012 at 9:27 am #
Does anyone remember when Piedmont airlines kept making page one for breaking? I recall a hearing about an incident in the Sixties where a Piedmont jet was being towed to the company hanger in North Carolina, I think, and it had to literally travel across an active highway to get from one spot to another. I think it was their newest jet which had replaced either a DC-3 (which is the C-47 in the army, the RD-3 in the Navy and the Dakota to the Brits), basically the pride of the fleet. As the story goes, the proverbial Little Old Lady came puttering along in her 1949 Studebaker — or equivalent; it may have been a Ford Woody — and drove right through two or three police barricades to take out the belly of the beast with the roof of her car. Piedmont was snake bit around that time it seems. The story may be apocryphal but my fading and fawlty memory seems to think it’s true. Speaking of Fawlty Towers…
John in Virginia on 09 May 2012 at 9:28 am #
Remember, Jerry in Fl, pilots often call landings “controlled crashes.” That’s reassuring, no?
Joni in Western ND on 09 May 2012 at 9:42 am #
Re: Art for Art’s Sake – This was absolutely hilarious!
phil in Missoula, MT on 09 May 2012 at 9:58 am #
Neptune Aviation in Missoula here operates a fleet of P2V aircraft which are probably as old as I am, on contract to the forest Service as fire retardent bombers. A month or so ago, they found a large crack in the wing spar of one of the aircraft.
Having been a pilot at one point in my life, I can’t tell you how much it loosens the sphinter to think, “I was the last guy to fly that thing with 10+ tons of slurry on board”
The slurry leaves the plane in a hurry which changes the wing loading very quickly.
They just put a small 4-engine jet into service last year and will be replacing the P2Vs soon.
Bob, near Mark on 09 May 2012 at 10:00 am #
On one 1950s flight in a 2-engine prop plane, on the long-gone Eastern Airlines, the plane developed a leak in the hydraulic lines to the wing flaps. A crew member came into the cabin and removed a panel in the cabin floor. Using what looked like one of those old store-awning cranks, he began to crank the flaps down by hand. Since it was after dark, he asked me to aim a flashlight out through a cabin window so he could see when the flaps were down. Somewhere, I have a letter from the president of the airline thanking me for my assistance. A letter of thanks for holding a flashlight.
Neal in Bahstawn on 09 May 2012 at 10:07 am #
Sam in Alabama, because of the internet, that ad can still be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTO2iJJjbU. If memory serves correctly, it was circa 1973 or 1974. It is easily one of the most humorous commercials ever to air.
Jack in Minnesota on 09 May 2012 at 10:09 am #
I remember Republic Airlines. Got gobbled up by Northwest, I think. I was served duck a l’orange for the meal on one flight. Nowadays you’re lucky to get pretzels.
John in Virginia on 09 May 2012 at 10:53 am #
Neal in Bahstawn, that moldie oldie reminded me of a real-life flight to New Zealand courtesy of the good old USN. But that one was on a C-121 Connie. Longest flight in the history of the world since most of the pax were newbies to airplanes and 80% stayed sick from Hawaii to a stop in Pago Pago which I suspect was not planned but the pilots and crew just had to get off the flying sewer for an hour or three.
Tom in Southern Ohio on 09 May 2012 at 11:03 am #
I had a similar experience to Bob’s. In 1986 I was returning to Korea from the states via military hops. I’d switched from a C-5 that was going to Japan to a C-130 headed to Korea during a stop in the Phillipines. After we’d been in the air for a while the plane started doing figure-8s over a small island. The flight engineer/loadmaster came back and looked out the porthole in the door at the right wing, then went further back and rummaged around. He came back with a large green can and set it down next to me. I noticed that it said “Hydraulic Fluid” on it.
He reached up over me and opened the top of a pipe that ended in a funnel shape. He then started going through his pockets. I reached into my “boxed nasty” and pulled out the can opener that always came with them and asked if he needed it. He took it, opened the can, and poured the contents into the funnel opening. He then went and looked out the window again, went back to the back and brought back another can, emptied it into the funnel, and looked out the window again. This time he closed the top of the funnel and went up front. A few minutes later he came back and announced we were diverting to Japan for repairs.
No letter from the President thanking me for my assistance, though, unless you count the one I received when I retired.
Cheers,
Tom
phil in Missoula, MT on 09 May 2012 at 11:04 am #
Thanks Neal, that is a hoot!
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 11:38 am #
Did run into a group at a chili cookoff that called their venison entry “Road Kill Chili”, I never asked how the deer expired.
My best flying story comes from a C-130 landing. Crew chief came back to inform us the final was going to be steep and fast, and they were going to drop the rear ramp so we could make a rolling exit. Seems the base camp was taking small arms and mortar fire, these gays did not want to be a target. Lowest jump I ever made from a plane.
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 11:51 am #
Wait, that should have read guys not gays. There was a strict don’t ask don’t tell policy in that era.
Mindy on 09 May 2012 at 12:14 pm #
Sandcastler [capitalized since the improper noun still began the sentence], one never ever asks what’s in “Road Kill Chili” or any gumbo. You look into that abyss, something just might reach out and grab ya!
phil in Missoula, MT on 09 May 2012 at 12:15 pm #
Speaking of Lafayette and road-kill, there was a cookbook put out, maybe by the chamber of commerce or some organization to raise money, called Cajun Men Cook. In it, there was a recipe for Road Kill Stew. It went something like this:
Go to Ace Hardware and buy a spray can of fluorescent orange paint.
Head up the back roads toward Eunice, stopping to spray anything dead along the road with orange paint
Stop and have a couple of beers at the tavern in Eunice
Re trace your route and pick up anything that isn’t painted orange along the highway
that was the stock for stew recipe, which continued from there. I never did try it.
Neal in Bahstawn on 09 May 2012 at 12:19 pm #
Phil, John and all readers: I just went back and re-looked at the Southern Airways ad. Please take 60 seconds out of your busy lives and look at what, after a few hours reflection, is a paean to how good advertising can be when creative types are allowed to run rampant.
Sam, thank you again for jogging my memory and sending me on that quest!
phil in Missoula, MT on 09 May 2012 at 12:22 pm #
this was Lafayette, LA, in case there was any doubt. Here we go on food again.
Bruce in PSL Florida on 09 May 2012 at 12:32 pm #
I used to fly on Southern Airways DC-3s out of Jackson MS to Memphis quite a bit. No air conditioning in the summer made them uncomfortable while they are on the ground.
Missionary Flights International out of Fort Pierce FL still flies DC-3s to the islands. They have one that still has the old rotary engines and two that have been converted to turbo-props. It seems that jet fuel is much cheaper and much more available in the islands down here. Once a year they have an open house and offer flights in their planes for a $20.00 donation. I always take advantage of this for the memories if nothing else.
JimInTN on 09 May 2012 at 12:55 pm #
My lovely small town of Crossville TN (Home of Trade-A-Plane for you plane owners) has had an airport since 1934 and we had regualr Southern Air service when our population in the 60′s was probably 5000 in the city. We had a terminal and everything!
I think Ray Stevens had a song about that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASovlGbbBm4
Enjoy!
sideburns on 09 May 2012 at 1:20 pm #
I remember, once, back in the ’80s, taking a commuter flight from San Diego to LA. The plane was so small that when the stewardess gave her flight safety speech, I could look past her and see the pilot and copilot. I was also delighted to see that when I looked out my window I could actually see through the props.
Tom in Glendora, CA on 09 May 2012 at 1:29 pm #
Fly LuTran Air. Check out this audio clip
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 1:34 pm #
Mindy, had a few meals grab me afterside later; stories for another time.
Dave in MA on 09 May 2012 at 1:51 pm #
Russell Way Out There – “Manuel!”
f on 09 May 2012 at 1:56 pm #
Ahh, Florida Airlines. My father used to fly from Gainesville to Tallahassee on Florida Airlines in the 1960s, when he was a professor at the University of Florida. That was when the Gainesville airport had benches outside, and you used to call them to ask when the 9:30 Eastern Airlines flight from Atlanta would come in.
Ghost Rider 6 on 09 May 2012 at 2:43 pm #
After WWII, refitted DC-3’s and C-47’s were used as early corporate aircraft. A founder of an international oilfield service company that still bears his name today had one that he would not have been able to use, due to his severe emphysema, except that a section of the unpressurized cabin was converted into a large oxygen tent.
The DC-3 was a “tail dragger” aircraft (no nose gear). One airline pilot reportedly developed a technique he used to entertain people at some of those small town airports. Through judicious use of throttles, brakes and elevator control, he would keep the fuselage level after landing, with the tail wheel several feet above the ground, while he taxied to the gate. After coming to a stop, he would gently lower the tail wheel to the ground and shut down the engines. For departure, he would reverse the procedure. Must have been cool to see.
To me the most impressive thing about the C-130, along with its barn-like interior, was the takeoff angle it could maintain when lightly loaded.
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 3:16 pm #
Judy, just saw were they caught a seven foot, seven inch alligator in a Conroe backyard. Keep an eye open before diving into the pool.
Nancy in Bucks County on 09 May 2012 at 3:19 pm #
I recall Allegheny Airlines out of PittsburgH, PA, now USAirways. We referred to it as Agony Air, due to the constant delays in scheduling. Something to do with the planes they owned and engine trouble. Missed several trips to visit family because of them.
Mark in TTown on 09 May 2012 at 3:41 pm #
Neal, thanks for the link! I don’t remember this commercial but I did fly Southern back in the 1970′s. One of the worst flights I ever had was on them. Not a DC-3 but a Martin 404 turboprop. Probably about the size of a DC-3 but a little newer. Tail-dragger, no airconditioning to speak of during the time when smoking was still allowed on planes. (glad that is gone now). Anyway, I had flown non-stop Honolulu to Chicago on an American DC-8 next to a woman who carried a baby and had two small children in the seats. Southern DC-9 to Nashville, then changed to the 404 to Tuscaloosa by way of Columbus, MS. When we got ready to leave Columbus we hit turbulence on the takeoff. The plane felt like it was in free-fall, got lift, dropped again, and lifted again. Looking out the window I could see a loose bolt popping up and down on the engine cover. For the next 60 miles I was praying that the cover would stay bolted on until the plane got to Tuscaloosa. It did and I was very glad to get home at last!
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 09 May 2012 at 4:04 pm #
All this talk of small/defunct airlines brings to mind Tom Paxton’s “Thank you Republic Airlines”. For those who might not be familiar with it, the next line is “for breaking the neck on my guitar”.
Bob, near Mark on 09 May 2012 at 4:19 pm #
Ruth Anne in Winter Park,
While sitting in a Southwest Airlines plane on the tarmac in Austin, I watched as a baggage handler picked up a guitar and case from the trolley cart and tossed it 4 or 5 feet onto the conveyor belt loading the baggage compartment.
chill on 09 May 2012 at 4:20 pm #
The world was a friendly place back in days of DC-3. First ride in one was when I was about 10 in 1959 and made the milk run from North Bend, OR to Aberdeen, Washington by myself. Got to sit in the front seat and visit the pilot and sit in the seat and touch the controls. No wonder I became a pilot.
Flew from Fresno to LA in twin Beach taildragger with dual tail for really little money if in uniform. Group all sat in back, and when the smoking sign came on, one of the guys from LA (surfer dude) lit up a joint, the stew just looked back at him and shook her head. That in spring 1968 before we deploy. Ahh, the friendly skys……
Mark in Boston on 09 May 2012 at 5:08 pm #
Sandcastler: re letting all the gays — GUYS — off the plane, I can’t resist posting this urban legend (almost certainly not true, unfortunately):
Seems a (whatever airline) employee with the last name of Gay was flying on a company pass. Mr. Gay found a man in his seat and sat elsewhere. Since the plane turned out to be overbooked, a ticket agent approached the man in Mr. Gay’s assigned seat and asked “Are you Gay?” When the bewildered man nodded that he was gay, the agent said, “Well, get your things, you’ll have to get off.”
The real Mr. Gay overheard and quickly interrupted, “I’m Gay.” The agent told him he’d have to leave the plane at which another passenger, observing this whole scene, announced defiantly, “I’m gay, too. Heck, you can’t throw us all off.”
Tom in Glendora, CA on 09 May 2012 at 5:09 pm #
Somehow my link isn’t showing….trying for the 3d time but on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GTu14Gros</a
Milton in Gulfport on 09 May 2012 at 6:00 pm #
My first plane ride was on a Southern Airways DC-3, Gulfport to Memphis (w/ several stops along the way). I remember it clearly because there was alot of turbulence that day & I have never been so sick in my life.
Jim from NC on 09 May 2012 at 6:50 pm #
To Russell, speak of Fawlty Towers all you want. Mash and Fawlty Towers are my favorites. Spent 3 years in England from 76-79 and Fawlty Towers was on BBC at that time. I believe 13 episodes. Cleese physical comedy still cracks me up over 32 years later. “Don’t mention the war.”
Flew Piedmont all over when in the Navy as that is how I got back home to Eastern NC. Single at the time, I actually enjoyed going through O’Hare and Atlanta. Do not care for that now.
On flight from Madrid to Rota on R&R from Iceland, we were hit by lightning. Brightest light I ever want to see on this side. Crew member came running back to look at the wing, crossing himself. We were told that a tanker carrying jet fuel had been struck several weeks before and did not make it.
May have to pull out the Fawlty Towers CD and just get away from it all.
Jerry in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 6:50 pm #
I will be flying to Philadelphia in October, my first flight since before 9/11. Any advice?
Jerry in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 6:53 pm #
Other than-don’t let William Shatner have the window seat.
Bob on 09 May 2012 at 7:05 pm #
My first flight was in a Ford Trimotor back in 1937 (I was about 8 years old). Two dollars if I remember right. Flew in the DC-3s a lot in the 50s job interviewing after college.
Bob on 09 May 2012 at 7:12 pm #
Almost forgot of my greatest DC-3 experience. Was at Fort Benning just out of an infantry school and on leave. Were going to fly to Atlanta to catch a plane to Chicago. The DC-3 from Columbus coldn’t land at Atlanta because of fog so we went back to Columbus and waited for better weather. Finally made it to Atlanta, but couldn’t get a flight out of there due to weather.
So I hopped a train to New Orleans and got a train ride to Chicago. no time to fool around when you are on leave.
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 7:54 pm #
Jerry in FL,
Just follow the guy in front of you, the friendly TSA people will inform you of mistakes and missteps. Shoes off, empty all pockets, layout the quart bag with liquids, and remove belt; place in bin for scanning. Remove jacket, another bin. Place all carryons on scanner belt. Computer on belt, seperate bin. Walk towards man waving at you; obey his instructions. You made it!
I flew two weeks after 9/11, no one had a plan, was a true cluster flub.
One last hint, I never carry shaving cream; the darn can causes problems at every airport on the planet. I either buy at the other end on just use hand soap.
Mindy on 09 May 2012 at 8:09 pm #
Bob, did you luck out and catch the train they call the City of New Orleans? Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson [among others] aside, there really was a Chicago-New Orleans run with that name and I understand it was a beauty. Don’t know if it still runs or not. John tried to keep score in the club car but they dumped him off in Kankakee.
Jerry in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 8:18 pm #
Thanks sandastler. Aside from being full of metal I’m also the type that will add some water to a 3 oz bottle just to mess with them. If they can’t take a joke.
sandcastler on 09 May 2012 at 8:47 pm #
Mindy, as late as ’97 Amtrak still ran the route. Not sure it is train it was in the heyday of railing. I only know this because it had a several hour layover in Memphis, my then home. The Friday before Super Bowl that year Beale Street was over run with Cheeseheads.
Dan Holway on 09 May 2012 at 9:05 pm #
Jeez….I expected these comments to be filled with talk about today’s strip. Gene comes home and says, “I just need time to, you know, think!” About what, pray tell? Finishing college? The ‘new’ house? The upcoming marriage?
Mike in 96 on 09 May 2012 at 9:08 pm #
In the early 70′s flew on Reeve Aleutian Airways a couple of times in Alaska on DC-3′s and
DC-6′s. If oil slicks didn’t develope on the wings behind the engines you would worry they might be low on oil! If they weren’t leaking they were out of oil. Last flight leaving St Paul Island the in flight meal was a pot of moose stew one of the crew brought from home. What a year.
Robin in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 9:54 pm #
Jerry in FL
You can bring that 3 oz bottle but it must fit “comfortably” inside your quart-size bag with all your other liquids and gels. You can’t put 3 oz in a 4-oz bottle without getting harassed (this I know for a fact). You can’t even have a 4-oz bottle that has 1/4 ounce lotion left in it–even when you are showing military ID–because, well, just because. You have to take your comfortable quart size bag out and put it in the bin–except for the places where they don’t make you.
You have to take off your shoes at every airport. Except the ones that make only some people remove theirs.
If you are coming into Atlanta from another country you have to get scanned, etc, going from your plane after customs and immigrations) into the airport. Because, you know, you might have acquired bad things in midair. And don’t EVEN think of carrying the bottle of water the airline gave you…
Who’s winning, anyway?
Robin in Fl on 09 May 2012 at 10:01 pm #
Dan
You’re right. We’re all on the edge of our seats but we’ve learned there is no use speculating. We get all hot and bothered (well, SOME people here do!) but we still have to wait.
TruckerRon on 09 May 2012 at 10:22 pm #
Did anyone else ever fly on Trans Magic Airlines? I did in 1973, stopping at every airport (I remember at least 6 stops) between Salt Lake City and Salmon Idaho. There was no partition between the pilot and the engineer/copilot so I did get a bit worried when they started tapping on a gauge and asking each other what they thought about it.
phil in Missoula, MT on 09 May 2012 at 10:41 pm #
Amtrak still has the trains with names and yes the City of New Orleans still runs. I don’t remember the eastern trains, but the California Zephyr runs Chicago to LA, Sunset Limited from New Orleans to LA along the bottom of the country, the Empire Builder across the top of the country from Seattle to Chicago and along the west coast, the Coast Starlight from LA to Seattle. The Texas Eagle runs from Chicago to San Antonio where it meets the Sunset Limited in the middle of the night.
Jerry, if you’re actually full of metal, leave a few extra minutes for a pat down after the scanner, unless they have one of the newer ones. Also, they beat any sense of humor out of TSA employees, so don’t try to joke with them. They are incapable of smiling and it may cause you problems.
Bob on 10 May 2012 at 4:28 am #
Mindy.
Have no idea if the train had a name. All I knew was it was going in my direction
Mark in TTown on 10 May 2012 at 6:48 am #
And there is the Crescent, which connects New Orleans to New York, and runs thru Tuscaloosa daily. I never saw it go by but what I wished I was on it. When I was about 7, my dad took me on the Southern Crescent from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa. I don’t remember very much about it, but wish I could do it again.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 10 May 2012 at 6:50 am #
Jerry: I thought that I wrote about this, but did not find the entry. When I went to Japan recently, I decided to wear pants that had numerous pockets on them so that I could put different things in each one. However I have lost 30 lbs and the only thing holding them up was a new belt. Of course I forgot that with the new fangled machines, you must remove the belt. I decided to hold my pants up with my hands.
When I got in the machine, they asked me to raise my hands I was begining to look like a rapper as my pants kept sliding down, exposing my underwear. Finally the female TSA agent let me through with a smile and tried to keep from giggling. I told her that I had lost 30 lbs. She said “Well you look good! Do you feel good?’ I told her yes, but if my pants had fallen all the way down, I might not have felt so good. All the TSA agents started laughing then.
That made me feel good that as serious as they take their jobs, I could make them laugh. With your sense of humor, you might want to be careful about what you kid about, but smile, tell them you are having a great day, and ask them how there’s are going. I bet the experience will go much better if you do.
hc on 10 May 2012 at 7:34 am #
planes/airlines – how about a Twin Beech? (D-18) the old ones had radial engines, but some later models were retrofitted to turbines
or the Swearingen Metro – aka the Cigar tube? –
I’ve been in both (and DC-3′s) and have logged 20 minutes of right seat flight time in the Metro.
Craig T on 10 May 2012 at 4:16 pm #
Have you been to St. Simons Island lately? The Sea Island Company has sold out. Pretty much the entire island, except the area around the fort, has been developed.
In the ’60 my family vacationed on Jekyll, and we’d make a trip each visit to the fort, and I remember driving a long way through nothing but trees to get there. Now the Red Barn gets lost among its neighbors.
My father spent his early childhood in Brunswick, which is why we probably went there so often and had to endure the gnat-infested fort. That was no place for small children to have fun.
Did they have a toll pass, or did you have to pay every time you went back to the island?
Mark in Boston on 11 May 2012 at 2:50 pm #
Follow the guy in front of you; shoes off; put newspaper on top of someone else’s laptop computer on the conveyor belt; walk through scanner; pick up newspaper and computer together and hope the owner doesn’t remember he had one.