Being retired helps. If I were still working it'd likely not be much of a choice as my job often entailed visits to other cities/countries. I think I flew something like a million miles commercially in my lifetime tho, and it was mostly a downhill experience over the years with the carriers and airports (not a good downhill like on a mountain bike, tho
). Altho the food got a bit better at airports towards the end.....can't think of anything else that got better.
Domestically I can live with just driving somewhere but I did a lot of that already, too, these days am content with maybe just seeing more of Oregon than I have so far....
