Travelling during a pandemic is no fun. I’m not a huge fan of travelling as it is, by which I mean the actual moving from one place to another place. There have been some exceptions - not much beats crossing Argentina on the top deck front seats of a luxury coach - but on the whole, boring and uncomfortable is about the best you can hope for, and it’s downhill all the way from there. (Not literally. You can also travel uphill or along the flat.)
I have to admit I love air travel: the feeling at take off, the view out of the little window- I associate these exciting things with the tedium of the airport routines. But what really frightens me is riding on the back of a motorbike, each of the four times I have done this in my life I thought I was going to die: on the back of a scooter in Morocco aged 17, on architect Director’s bike out of London on the way to a meeting, on another architect colleague’s bike searching for a beached whale along the Firth of Forth, behind an artist on the way to The Slice studio- none of these things occurred after the age of 30 and I intend to avoid repeating the experience. But I’m sorry you’ll probably have to face flying again, but doing it for very good reasons. Amazing music by the way- can’t wait to behold the result!
So glad for the Cultural Necessity exemption
I have to admit I love air travel: the feeling at take off, the view out of the little window- I associate these exciting things with the tedium of the airport routines. But what really frightens me is riding on the back of a motorbike, each of the four times I have done this in my life I thought I was going to die: on the back of a scooter in Morocco aged 17, on architect Director’s bike out of London on the way to a meeting, on another architect colleague’s bike searching for a beached whale along the Firth of Forth, behind an artist on the way to The Slice studio- none of these things occurred after the age of 30 and I intend to avoid repeating the experience. But I’m sorry you’ll probably have to face flying again, but doing it for very good reasons. Amazing music by the way- can’t wait to behold the result!