March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 25
A Bite of a Slice is a moment within a Slice of Life.
What is a Travel Bite?
It is the retelling of a moment that I captured in real time during years and years and years of travel.
I’ve crisscrossed the country for more than thirty years, traveling to and from schools to conduct professional development events. In those years, I’ve flown nearly six million miles and achieved life membership as Executive Platinum — a coveted status as a top-tier frequent flyer with American Airlines.
As I’ve waited hour after hour in airports and flown miles upon miles, I jotted down running notes in real time, recording sights, sounds, smells that surrounded me. Capturing the people. Questioning. Pondering. I wrote on sticky notes. On napkins. On the flyleaves and endsheets of my book. In my tiny pocket journal. Rarely on my cell phone. (When I’m on the go, I’m a pencil-paper writer.)
What I wrote then is the inspiration and words of a Travel Bite now.
A Travel Bite from November 2013
Moving walkways hum.
Roller board* wheels go clickity-clack clickity-clack click click clack.
Alarms beep. Buzz. Blare.
A door slams.
Loudly, PAs chronicle the boarding process of flights.
Voices swell — rising, ebbing, falling, like ocean waves.
Babies cry.
Phones sing… dance… ring.
Like a restless but predictable storm, the sounds of Concourse C fill the space around me.
*Read about the controversy over Rollaboard®️ and Rollerboard®️ and roller board.
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