Travel Tunes

The most difficult part of traveling is the getting there. Getting to the airport isn't too difficult, it's getting to your plane on time that is often the problem. Most trips are characterized by hurry up and wait. I hurry up and they have me wait. It's times like these that a good handle on meditation is helpful. I try to just be there then.

It definitely helps to have a great book that you are in love with to read and I definitely love having my SanDisk Sansa e14o player. It's only a 2 gig capacity but that's plenty of music and audio books to get through airport layovers and long flights. It's way less expensive than other players so if it's "lost" in another country, my trip isn't ruined by regrets. I've changed out the headphones that came with it for a dandy pair of Sony Noise Reduction headphones. These too are considerably less expensive than the great Bose headphones.

These serve me well at a price I can afford and a price that if dinged or "lost" doesn't blow the trip. If you haven't tried the noise reduction headphones, you don't know what you're missing. I can finally hear the movies and my music and not the kid behind me who is learning his ABC's loudly or is crying for six straight hours or is reading the same story aloud to his mom for a 1000 miles.

I'm off for a visit to my favorite online store, http://www.ladyslipper.org/ to select some great Celtic music to listen to on the flight that will get me prepared to land in Edinburg airport and drive a car on a highway, on a side of the road that will be a great new view for me!

Keep traveling!