Are you ever "right on" with your immediate thought, Mr. Advocate - you simply "can't go back".
When I was college and in Service, did I drive around in an AMC Gremlin "that ran", "couch surf", stay in Mom and Pop "Motels" - some of rather dubious respectability, go to the Symphony and sit up.in.the rafters, fly overseas "back in the Gulag"? Of course I did.
But now apparently like Mr. Advocate, I "did OK" in this life and have "graduated" from all that. Now "major brand" three star (Hampton, Courtyard, Express) is "as low as I go". My ride is now "luxo", and flying overseas nowadays, well, there's a nice Blue curtain between me and "The Gulag". But guess what, last August flying to Munich. I did take a walk back there (to say "hi" to an Attendant who knows an Attendant I know) and the 777 hit some turbulence. I grabbed the first seat I could find and bolted up. That "plankboard" has shrunk even further since my last OSEAS flight in one.
While the more Mr. Ken is willing to share; age, origin and destination, physical limitations, time of year for trip, the more "we" can help.
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