You first international flight!
Where ever you might be going, if you are like me, you were so scared and worried that you would miss a flight or something like that. You also probably was scared to death to meet that one person for the first time. You’ve been wanting to meet for several hours to years of talking to them. When I first started talking to my Girlfriend and we haven’t met in person. I really had this desire to meet her and see what could happen, so I bought my ticket! You can bet I had all these thoughts going through my mind, will she like who she sees in person and what if I didn’t like her. Will it be everything I imagined? I’ll say this much, the meeting went very well. It was like we knew each other way before we even met online.
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Getting Ready for the long Flight!
If you are like me, you had to get a few things before you could even think about buying that ticket. You needed to buy a Passport, vaccinations, and even finding a place to stay. You may even need to buy travel supplies from toothpaste to feminine hygiene. I can’t express this enough. The first meeting you should always have a place to stay for yourself because not all first meetings ever go good and it’s a small chance that you might be one of them. I have always adhered to being prepared the boy scout motto. When I went to meet her for the first time, I had a place of my own to sleep and live from for my duration of the visit. Don’t depend on your GF/BF for a place to stay even if you trust them explicitly. There is always that chance that you will find something out that will make it impossible to stay with them.
Depending on your country’s origin, there may be more requirements than I had to go through to see my girlfriend. Some countries require you to have a visa even just to visit that country. So do you research and don’t be afraid to call your airlines and ask them what you might need. I was the lucky one because I knew how long I can stay in her country before I would be required to get a visa. Some countries are more tolerant than others.
Supplies you may need!
So here is my list of things you probably will need to survive that long flight but before I say that I should explain what I consider what a long flight is. In my opinion a long flight is anything from 8 to 32 or more hours with layovers included. A layover is when you have to wait for the next flight to take off and you can have anywhere from 2 hours to the next day but most of the time it’s only a few hours.
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- TravelMate Memory Foam neck pillow, Navy blue!
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Cozy-Soft Travel Blanket Compact Lightweight Portable with Bag (Sky Blue)
- Nature Made Melatonin 3 mg Tablets Value Size 240 Ct
These are my basics for when I go on my long flights because of time zones and such the Melatonin is good for sleeping on the noisy plane and the bluetooth headphones will help you drown out the noise of the plane. I usually have a two hour flight layover and I try to get a little sleep on the trip there and back. When you can’t sleep I do this and it knocks me out everytime without much side effects.
Get Aisle seats
this is a quick tip for anyone who has to fly a long distance and only because if you have the aisle sets you can usually get up to go the bathroom without getting in the way of others but most people understand you need to go to the bathroom but it’s definite a plus for me because I don’t have to bother anyone. Also if the person in the aisle seat goes to the bathroom, it isn’t a bad idea to go to the bathroom anyway. This is a quick tip and I hope these recommendations help you to survive that long trip to see that one special person that you’ve been talking to for so long. If you like these recommendations please consider supporting this site by using my affiliate links to help pay for storage and domain. Thank you for reading this!
Got even more tips for travelers than please feel free to comment below and help those who might want even more tips.
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Sit in front of the plane. Food will be served first in the front and if you sit in the back, sometimes they run out of it by the time they get to you.
Have a shawl with you. Nothing worse than sitting in an airplane and getting a cold drift on your neck for hours.
Also, another advantage by sitting in front – first off the airplane means also first through immigration. If you sit in row 45, you will have 44 rows of people in front of you at immigration as well.
Undine, Excellent tips there. Sometimes though you can’t choose which row you can sit in but I am going to keep that in mind on my next plane trip. Thanks for those tips.