Kinsey Show and Travel
April 10th, 2008
The opening of the Kinsey Institute Juried Show is tomorrow evening. I plan to be there. It should be interesting. Not least because I’ll get to finally meet Dave Swanson and, I hope, Stephen Haynes. Stephen is in doubt, as you can read on his blog, because of the airline problems that are going on. His flight has been cancelled. He may still decide to drive down to the opening…I hope so.
I’m worried about the airline situation as well. In a week I have to go to New York City to photograph a dance company in rehearsal. I’ve decided to fly. I can only hope that the airline I’ll be flying on will not be doing wholesale flight cancellations when my time to fly comes along.
I used to enjoy flying. Now I try to avoid it if there is any alternative. The airlines seem to have completely lost sight of their mission: to serve their passengers. I’m so old I can remember when passengers were treated well, when the seats were large enough and had enough leg room that you could actually be comfortable during a flight. I remember courteous ground and flight personnel. I can even remember good food on airplanes.
Now, flying is torture. And it’s a crap shoot as far as where you will end up and whether your luggage will be there with you. The seating on airplanes should be considered a violation of the Geneva Convention. And, of course, you could starve to death on an airplane these days.
The air travel system is broken. I don’t think anything short of some completely new, revolutionary system of air travel, perhaps small “air taxis” or some other different approach to moving passengers around will solve the problem. Meanwhile I’ll continue to drive whenever it is an alternative.
That’s the poster for the Kinsey show…not one of my photos. Come see the show tomorrow night if you are in the neighborhood.
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