Travel Anxiety
Wow this year is sure flying by isn't it? It's nearly half over!!!! We wait all winter long for summer to get here, then it's here and gone and we're well into Fall before we can ever say "it's finally summer", lol. Our trip to Cuba is falling further and furhter into our past!!! Lately we've been having talks about where we might wnat to go next (hopefully next winter). A couple destinations have come to mind, maybe Mexico or the Dominican. Of course we plan on returning to Cuba one day, but we decided tha tfor our next rip we'll try discovering a new place. My ulitmate goal is Tahiti....but that will have to wait for now _ just a wee bit out of our price range, lol. Europe would also be nice, but again, that will have to wait.
My problem is that I have all these places I want to visit in my life, but after our last flying experience I find myself haveing a lot of anxiety when I think about getting on a plane again. Our flight home from Cuba was less than enjoyable. When we flew over the southern United States, they were apparently having some storms down there and our ride got a weee bit too bumpy for my taste, and I was not the only one who was scared thank you very much. I used to fly quite a bit when I was a kid, back and forth to Toronto to see my grandparnts, but as of late I am not very expereinced with flying anymore so needless to say this was a very scary experience for me. I think what really scares me is that I have no control over the situation, not like if you were in a car and you could get out and walk past the bumpy part of the road or drive around it or jsut choose a different road. When you're up 34,000 feet - there's nowhere to go!!! You have to count on the pilot to choose the best path for your flight and it just seems that it could be so much more unpredictable. I really want to travel a lot in my life but I don't know how to get over this anxiety now. A lot of people seem to handle it quite well and are not bothered, or they just deal with it in a diffent way.
So I guess any advice any of you may have out there would be appreciated, I'm sure there are people that fly a lot more than I do and turbulance is pretty routine to them. I've heard a lot of the same stuff from people such as "Don't let it bother you because there's nothing you can do anyway". I'm sorry, I don't have that kind of inner peace that I can just sit back and pretend I'm not scared out of my mind!!!!!! So what's the answer? Educate myself about flying? Take some good drugs before we fly again? I don't know what to do? All I knwo is that I never used to be a nervous flyer and I never thought I would become one - but now I am and I really need to get over it!! There's so much of the world to see, and I think it would take a really long time to see it all by car/boat, lol. What do you guys think?
Wow this year is sure flying by isn't it? It's nearly half over!!!! We wait all winter long for summer to get here, then it's here and gone and we're well into Fall before we can ever say "it's finally summer", lol. Our trip to Cuba is falling further and furhter into our past!!! Lately we've been having talks about where we might wnat to go next (hopefully next winter). A couple destinations have come to mind, maybe Mexico or the Dominican. Of course we plan on returning to Cuba one day, but we decided tha tfor our next rip we'll try discovering a new place. My ulitmate goal is Tahiti....but that will have to wait for now _ just a wee bit out of our price range, lol. Europe would also be nice, but again, that will have to wait.
My problem is that I have all these places I want to visit in my life, but after our last flying experience I find myself haveing a lot of anxiety when I think about getting on a plane again. Our flight home from Cuba was less than enjoyable. When we flew over the southern United States, they were apparently having some storms down there and our ride got a weee bit too bumpy for my taste, and I was not the only one who was scared thank you very much. I used to fly quite a bit when I was a kid, back and forth to Toronto to see my grandparnts, but as of late I am not very expereinced with flying anymore so needless to say this was a very scary experience for me. I think what really scares me is that I have no control over the situation, not like if you were in a car and you could get out and walk past the bumpy part of the road or drive around it or jsut choose a different road. When you're up 34,000 feet - there's nowhere to go!!! You have to count on the pilot to choose the best path for your flight and it just seems that it could be so much more unpredictable. I really want to travel a lot in my life but I don't know how to get over this anxiety now. A lot of people seem to handle it quite well and are not bothered, or they just deal with it in a diffent way.
So I guess any advice any of you may have out there would be appreciated, I'm sure there are people that fly a lot more than I do and turbulance is pretty routine to them. I've heard a lot of the same stuff from people such as "Don't let it bother you because there's nothing you can do anyway". I'm sorry, I don't have that kind of inner peace that I can just sit back and pretend I'm not scared out of my mind!!!!!! So what's the answer? Educate myself about flying? Take some good drugs before we fly again? I don't know what to do? All I knwo is that I never used to be a nervous flyer and I never thought I would become one - but now I am and I really need to get over it!! There's so much of the world to see, and I think it would take a really long time to see it all by car/boat, lol. What do you guys think?
posted by Reagan | 9:38 AM
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Come to Asia!!! We'll meet you in Thailand and eat pineapple on the beach for weeks...
MMMMM......Pineapple,I (heart) pineapple so much :).
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