Air travel used to be a glamorous experience: the old movies on the Turner Classic Movie channel portray it well. Nowadays, not so much: long lines, TSA inspections, crowded planes, and little or nothing to eat. The seats are way too small: they definitely weren’t designed to accommodate large travelers, personal pillows and comfort pets. Two things caught my eye this week in the Vegas airport: the boots, buckles, and hats of the National Finals Rodeo crowd, and a big macho guy sporting a Hell’s Angels outfit. This last one was complete with a leather jacket, club name and logo, heavy black boots, chain strap for his wallet, bandanas around his neck and head, long beard and lots of tattoos: those all made sense; but, it was his cute little comfort dog at the end of a rhinestone leash that was the surprise. Years ago, that picture, today’s air travel, and life in general, would have been inconceivable: but boy howdy, things do change. The moral of this story: anything is possible so don’t be shocked by the things you might see today.
Max Planck (1858 – 1947): German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
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