Low Altitude

 By Maryanna Gabriel


Speaking of Travels In A Different Sort Of Way and the news, for all kinds of reasons it is more enticing to stay at home. Locally it is the unprecedented heat, the forest fires, the crowds, the expense. And internationally, what was once assured is precarious with flight cancellations, upped fees, and impossible line-ups (complete with feinting mothers) due to new European regulations for cross border travel.  

It's funny. I had a feeling (you know how one does), about flying last March and I said naaah....I'll do it later. Later! Ha. The intuition and the why is obvious now. 

Who would have thunk? So much change in the last two months and none of them comfortable or even pleasant. Like why throw oneself into the frey? It sounds disastrous out there. 

However, just in case, I got a new passport. What a thing of beauty. So pretty with all the nice pictures. And the "I'm being sentenced to Alcatrez" personal photo that perennially graces such documentation is now tiny. The opening page is a digitalized piece of pastic with a micro window so who knows how it looks when scanned. Who would have thought? 

Low altitude air travel... 

More future. There is a car in China being developed, well it is already created, that flies - low altitude air travel. I'm not kidding. Just like in all the prediction models of what is to come. Except it's here. Now you're talking. Maybe I'll get one of those.

So many changes happening. Sometimes I feel like I'm time travelling.