Things To Know When Traveling Alone

1) The first leg of your journey will be deceptively smooth, lulling you into a false sense of security.

2) The second leg will be hellish.

3) Your second flight will leave an hour late, despite the fact that they boarded you a good 20 minutes earlier than scheduled.

4) If you are a woman, then on your second flight, you will have strange men seated to your right, left, fore, and aft.

5) One of these men will keep shooting suspicious glances your way, as if waiting for you to try and rob him.

6) There will be a very strong head wind, to delay your already late plane.

7) Despite assurances from the flight crew, you will not be only a few minutes late.

8) When you haven't slept in too many hours to count, the customs lady will stop you and question you for longer than she questioned anyone else, all the while glaring at your passport and writing lengthy notes about everything you say.

9) Once she finally lets you through, you will be so exhausted and emotional, that you might stand at the wrong baggage carousel for 10 minutes, about to cry because you cannot find your suitcase.

10) Once you have your suitcase, you will run for the exit.

11) Upon arriving in the terminal, you will almost fall apart with joy at the sight of a friendly and familiar face, smiling at you in welcome.

12) Once in this friend's car, you will be so relieved to be away from anything to do with air travel, you will talk really fast and laugh in a giddy fashion.

13) Upon arriving at this friend's house, you will be greeted by more smiles and hugs, and feel like you are home while away from home.

14) You will then be served stupendously delicious hot tea and bacon sandwiches in the conservatory, chatting to these amazing friends and listening to the birds sing.

15) Then you will blog about it, but do so while still extremely tired, and upon reading it over realize you had to # 5s, and so have to re-number most of the post.