{"id":2586,"date":"2021-10-17T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:56:19","slug":"its-a-bird-its-a-plane-travel-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…Travel Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stop doing something, then start again to incur wonder. I.e., travel! You give your suitcase to strangers and pick it up on a Mediterranean island? You fly in the belly of a mechanical bird? Suddenly you\u2019re above the clouds where the sun streaks pink, you look out the window again and you’re in darkness. You fly over a sepia city, small beads sewn into a warm fabric, a ground. There is a sinuous line dividing dark ocean from coast, dark wash of the Atlantic to urbanscape. This is night, do they never turn off the lights? It could be any city, but this is Lisbon, the first stop out of three. It’s 5am. Men shine in their fluorescent green vests, joking as they unload bags from the belly of the bird.Up and away to Rome, descending towards Rome. How stunned the ships, becalmed toys in the Mediterranean. What is that jagged shark\u2026if not our plane\u2019s trailing shadow. Flying over land, that cluster of reddish structures has the brush of the antique. Get closer, there’s a Roman amphitheater in the middle of weeds and industrial blocks. Made it to stop three. Welcome to Palermo, Sicily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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