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>>>Given my fear of flying over a major body of water, I rather doubt I'll ever be in NZ
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>So that's your excuse for being a parochial Donald-voter? OK. ;-)

Very funny - you should know by now that I don't like Trump. :)

Seriously, except for a flight over the Gulf of Mexico to Cancun, I have never flown over an ocean and I don't intend to.

At rough guess, I've been on a little over 200 flights in my life, and have probably slept about 40-50% of the flight time. I don't read, I don't pull a laptop out - I just put on my headphones and fall asleep and irritate nearby passengers with my chainsaw-level snoring.

But if I had to fly over an ocean, I'd be scared to death.