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CobblYwobbles:
​Tales of Travel, LifE, and Anxiety

Photo gallery of tales

Chapter One: Flying Foibles

10/17/2020

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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight,
defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws
of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it.
Her heart knew the plane would fall out of the sky.    
Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

1976: New York to London

Air India before departing from New York's JFK Airport.
​This is the plane that lost one of its engines on the way to London Heathrow in 1976. 
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We made ourselves comfortable for the evening in the TWA Terminal,
​catching a flight to London the next morning. 
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1993: JFK to Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv

My first flight to Israel on El Al in 1993: the essential pre-trip ritual photo
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Orthodox Jewish men donning their tefillin and tallit and facing east to  pray on the flight. 
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2010-11: JFK to Casablanca

The snowstorm of December 2010 delayed tour of Morocco with
Friendly Planet with my daughter, Rachel. This is in front of her Brooklyn home. 
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Rachel and me at the New Year's Eve Party in Casablanca welcoming 2011
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Alitalia lost all of our luggage, but most of us got our bags back before we went home.
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​The photo below is a bit fuzzy, but this was no "perfect delivery"! 
This was how Rachel's brand new suitcase arrived back home after being lost for 3 months. 
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​1997: Dulles to Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv

My luggage fell under a conveyor belt at Dulles Airport on my 1997 trip to Israel. 
This meant a shopping spree and some Israeli clothing for me at the Shuk Ha'Carmel
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​​My entire outfit here, at the border between Israel and Lebanon, was purchased in Israel.
I appreciate Osher,  one of my former camp staff, allowing me to use his washing machine!
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​2008: Dulles to Glasgow, Scotland 

Delayed luggage in Glasgow led to a shopping spree at TKMaxx.
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​My luggage was delivered to the hotel by the end of breakfast the next morning. 
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​2019: RDU to JFK to FCO to Sicily and Back!

I don't have photos of the skanky underwear, but the photo of me in the newly opened
TWA Hotel should look very familiar! 
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    CONTENTS

    Preface
    Chapter 1: Flying Foibles
    Chapter 2: Heights and
    ​     Enclosed Spaces

    Chapter 3: Falling
    Chapter 4: Men
    Chapter 5: Penises
    Chapter 6: Women
    Chapter 7: Lost
    Chapter 8: Pickpockets
    Chapter 9: Phantom
         Killers

    Chapter 10: Calamities
    Chapter 11: Crossing the
         Street

    Chapter 12: Illness
    Chapter 13: Toilets
    Chapter 14: Food
    Chapter 15: A Diagnosis
    Afterword
    ​The Tour Directors
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