Category TSA

I Like To Watch

December 29, 2016 · by · in airline, author, feral children, James L'Etoile, peek, travel, TSA, writing ideas · 2 Comments

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Shhhh… I like to watch. No not that way! Get your mind out of the gutter and go say three Hail Mary’s and a couple of Acts of Contrition. Throw some salt over your shoulder for good measure. I’m not watching in that way. I […]

When Did Travel Become Survival of the Fittest?

May 19, 2016 · by · in airline, are we there yet, author, family vacation, flight delay, humor, James L'Etoile, travel, TSA · 8 Comments

Travel used to be something fun. You remember vacation, right? That time you earned to go and get away from it all. What happened? The fun and excitement of getting away from it all has been replaced by fear and loathing (sorry Hunter S. Thompson). The entire process of getting overpriced tickets, checking in, and […]

Airline Travel Is The Final Frontier

October 10, 2014 · by · in airline, Con-Air, family vacation, flight delay, humor, James L'Etoile, travel, TSA · 1 Comment

To boldly go where everybody and their hillbilly uncle are going today. That captures the essence of air travel for me, as of late. Gone are the days when a family vacation meant getting out of bed at four in the morning and getting tossed in the back seat of a 1960 Studebacker station wagon, […]