Nick's Notes:
Traveling...
I'm In the English countryside - fresh, green and clean. Beginning of new school term today so the roads are full of children in uniform. They all look fresh green and clean too.
I usual fly club class these days because I'm getting a bit long in the tooth to play those silly airline games and shuffle a hundred miles to check in. You also get to use the classy lounge. So, I
entered said classy lounge and the woman at the door said "where's your special pass"?
I told her that I had a premium ticket and she said "You only have a lower class premium class ticket. You need an upper class premium ticket to get in here, so buzz off". The system has changed, you see. Like all the other greedy grasping airlines of today, they have figured out a new wrinkle to squeeze money from you. What to do? Start really traveling first class and not dying the richest man in the graveyard. Travel to the UK via the Queen Mary, where you get six days of food, wine, women and song for the price of an airline ticket. (Well, dunno about the women) Or simply stay at home. After all, just in Conn you can indulge in just about every sport or pastime you could possibly think of and it's a darn site cheaper than traveling by air.
