[DubaiSis]

I'm loving this show, but I may be benefitting from lack of hype and my expectations were VERY low. I thought it was going to be Desperate Housewives in the air but I'm finding the various sub-plots (the women's movement, the Cold War, MLK, etc.) all to be interesting, particularly how they intersect one another.

The first time I flew would have been about 10 years after this show is taking place. I was 7 or 8 and my Mom required that we all dressed to travel, which I continued until really just the last few years. I remember being given wings (Northwest Orient) and being taken to the upstairs in the 747. We have a favorite family picture of the 7 of us sitting in the upstairs of that 747 in full 70's glory.

We met Thin Lizzy on a plane one time and we were all so embarrassed because my Dad kept talking to them! It was early morning and they'd had a show that night. Even me as a kid knew these guys had no interest in chatting up a bunch of bumpkins from Iowa after what was undoubtedly a very late night of partying. Pan Am seems to be bringing up a bunch of these stories in my mind.