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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. ;-)
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>Very funny - you should know by now that I don't like Trump. :)
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>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.
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>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.
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>But if I had to fly over an ocean, I'd be scared to death.


I'm not scared of flying at all but I have acquired claustraphobia somewhere so I don't like being in a plane which has reduced flying as I tend to avoid it. Maybe I should ask if I can sit on the wing.