What Do You HAVE to Bring On a Plane?

by Elijay 8 contributors - November 12, 2008 + Add To This Guide

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Flying can be kind of a nightmare: canceled flights, lost luggage, and ridiculously long lines. So when it comes to traveling, you've got to make it as pain-free as possible-- and if that means taking those drugs your doctor prescribed for your wisdom teeth extraction 4 years ago, so be it. So I want to know, what do absolutely have to bring with you to make it though a flight? A neck pillow? Trashy magazines? Noise-canceling headphones? Horse tranquilizers?

Journal and your favorite pen or pencil!

For all of the writers, this is an invaluable thing to have while on your flight, especially for the transatlantic ones. Who knows when inspiration will strike? You could write a thrilling short story about the plane ride, or several smaller anecdotes about: your drooling neighbor, the guy in front of you with the bad hair piece, the child that runs up and down the aisles (WHERE are his parents??), or anything else that inspires you.

If you’re a doodler, a sketch diary is a fabulous thing to have. You can make caricatures of the people around you, or just capture those things that only come from the recesses of your imagination.

added by RayZ84 02/28/2009

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Yarny Yarn

I was never ever afraid of flying until bad health threatened my life—since then, I have a slight fear of dying in a plane crash, or any other one-in-a-million scenario because goshdarnit, I have to work hard to be alive and well! Sooooo, now I pretty much have to have a knitting/crochet project with me on every plane ride in order to calm my nerves. I still grasp the arm rests when it gets bumpy though.

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: by coastiefish 04/03/2009 Reply

To me flying isn’t about having drugs or music players to dull out the interaction. Instead I want to be right in the mix. I want to sit in my isle seat and feel the plane take off, enjoy that experience of lifting from the runway, being carried off of the face of the Earth. I want to look out the windows from my isle seat and know that Im leaving the planet to fly in this spectacular vesicle and that t 13,500 ft what Id really like to do is blow this joint and jump the f*ck out, parachute in tact. But instead I sit, and enjoy while getting my knees clipped from the beverage cart……

: by mswen 11/12/2008 Reply

Now THIS is a great idea for a guide, lady!

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Elijay

The SFV, Los Angeles

Likes: sweet pickles, English Bulldog puppies, jukeboxes, bicycles, and wheat beer. Dislikes: traffic jams, people who talk during yoga classes, murky swimming pools, excessively sweet frosting, and surly librarians.