I am never flying SAA again. Jeez, that was the worst experience EVER. 3 hours waiting to get on, we had specifically requested medical seats for my wife’s back and they gave us two of the only three seats on the plane that DIDN’T recline (the worst), it now has a stop-over both ways, so is not “direct” as they claim, and another 3 hours wait on this side.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, I have slept less than three hours in the last 30. Can you say jetlag for life?<\/p>\n
I can’t believe I am in NYC. First thing: I just ate two bagels. Next up: a nap….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Jeez, that was the worst experience EVER. 3 hours waiting to get on, we had specifically requested medical seats for my wife’s back and they gave us two of the only three seats on the plane that DIDN’T recline (the worst), it now has a stop-over both ways, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-e3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":405,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/terrible-afternoon\/","url_meta":{"origin":871,"position":0},"title":"terrible afternoon","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that anyone out there in blogland wants to hear about it, but I am just having the worst afternoon in ages. 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