33. Airplane seats

How can I impress upon you the importance of a good start to a trip? I could try with the story of the time my family tried to spend a nice weekend camping in North Carolina. We got two hours out of town when our car broke down so we had it towed back to Richmond, waited until the next day, packed up our other car, got two hours out of town, had it break down on us, got it towed back to Richmond, waited until the next day, and caught a ride with our friends where I was cramped in the back sideways seat of a pick-up's cab. Needless to say, that sucked and the trip wasn't nearly as fun as it could have been. So how lucky were we to end up with these seats on the ride over? Lucky enough to be so fresh that we plowed through our first day on NO sleep walking all over London and were sentient enough to celeb-spot Marcia Cross at Harrods that night. Rock!