#international airports.

[tanyagotravel]

Uzbekistan pre-travel hacks to know

After moving it year by year on the top of my travel bucket list, I finally succeeded to explore Uzbekistan.  Super thrilled because it’s a dream come true that exceeded my hopes, longing, and expectations. Four years in a row relocating, postponing, and upgrading the Uzbekistan travel program, to eventually materialize almost the way I imagined it, with a little dose of sobering up. I realized…

[mylittleredgirl]

the more i watch b5 again the more i appreciate that they really do live in an airport. it’s not just the many customs scenes and the space air traffic control, or that they tell us most of the population is textually passing through. so many of the public spaces look exactly like a place designed to kill time between flights. like the little kiosks for crappy jewelry no one needs. or how they’re usually eating at sandwich counters and tiny cocktail bars in the middle of the hallway. that’s a food court! even that little zen garden that’s 10 feet across seems like one of those attractions they use to decorate dead space at major airport terminals.

this isn’t a revelation or anything! all this is a very intentional design choice, but i never even thought about it the first time around as an intentional design choice, because i was a teenager in the 1990s so my fantasy vision of the distant future would naturally include getting to live at the mall.

anyway. new headcanon: b5 smells like pretzels.

[lowpolyanimals]

Rabbit Sculpture at Sacramento International Airport

[chalamet-chalamet]

He’s a beauty ✨✨✨

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Pete Mauney’s photograph of a long exposure of fireflies, airplanes in and out of Albany International Airport, and the rotation of the Earth in Greenport, New York.

Summer Snaps Photo Contest

[redrcs]

A long time ago in a land far away.

Tom Bradly airport, Los Angeles, 2008

[jtl-fics]

Fluent Freshman - Part 07

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The thing about Nicky knowing that FF knows Russian and therefore understands every single excruciatingly sweet, ear-reddingly spicy, or shockingly mundane thing that Andrew and Neil say to one another is that he is objectively the 3rd worst person to know this secret.

First place is, of course, Andrew Minyard the man who has now asked him about his family 3 times in the last week and a half. FF doesn’t really care if Andrew goes after the majority of his ‘family’ since it’s just his step brothers and step dad but Andrew might go after his Grandma too so he just says “We don’t talk” every time it comes up and deletes his entire chat history with his grandma that way Andrew won’t know how close they are. If that means that Andrew thinks that no one would look for him if he happened to disappear into a shallow grave FF doesn’t know. He’s already doomed so the least he can do is save his gran.

Second place is, of course, Captain Neil. Captain has mentioned quite a few times that a lot of people stay with friends or people they’re close with over Thanksgiving break. It’s meaner than Captain Neil usually would be off of the Court reminding FF that he has friends but none close enough who would want to spend a holiday with him. He plans to go see his Gran for Thanksgiving and she plans to feed him a truly ridiculous amount of food. It’s the same plan he’s had pretty much every year since he was 13.

Third place is Nicky Hemmick. Nicky is a very nice guy who got him a paperboy to hyperventilate into a couple times and would absolutely never intentionally OUT somebody and compromise their safety! Nicky’s talked with FF about some of his background so FF has full confidence that it’s never going to be something that Nicky intentionally outs to anyone. But there are two main reasons why Nicky is the third worst person to find out about this secret.

The first reason is that Nicky Hemmick just unabashedly loves gossip. FF has heard that with the graduation of the girls the previous year had gone Allison Reynolds who had multiple running bets on multiple teammates and a whole cache of gossip. Now Nicky has access to the ultimate accidental gossip magnet in the man who no one notices, who knows any language the Foxes speak and is too awkward to get up and leave when they start talking.

Nicky will never tell another soul his secret but he also HAS to know what Neil and Andrew are saying to one another and when Nicky lies to cover for him the charge is one free conversation translation.

He’s absolutely hooked on getting translations the since the first time he had asked what Andrew and Neil are hissing at one another one morning practice.

FF translated it awkwardly feeling like a creep and like he’s invading their privacy but Nicky had helped him eat the four slavic letter flashcards he had made up to help a friend study the language when Captain Neil and Andrew had come back early from a weekend alone in Columbia.

Nicky had even assured him afterwards that the ink was probably non-toxic and given him floss so he could get the flashcard wedged between his molars out.

So….

“Andrew’s mad that Captain Neil skipped breakfast because they’re working to make him eat something for every meal. Captain Neil’s mad because Andrew’s the one that kept him in bed so long that he didn’t have time to make anything.”

Nicky squeals in delight

The second reason, which is just compounded by the first, is the fact that Nicky had promised not to tell another Soul. However Nicky Hemmick, the romantic that he is, believes that he and his Fiancé Erik share one soul since they are soulmates. Therefore Nicky Hemmic had barely even registered FF’s tears of gratitude before he was calling Erik to tell him about FF.

The sheer number of close calls that have happened because Nicky HAS to tell Erik about something Andrew and Neil said to one another or something someone else is saying is the reason FF started getting ulcers.

Watching Nicky talk to Erik about him knowing Russian is like watching a member of the three stooges walk through a construction site blindfolded. FF nearly kills himself stopping Nicky from outing him numerous times and at the end Nicky’s smiling, unscathed and unaware of the sheer number of close calls he had sauntered through.

FF can’t wait to go home and bury his face in his grandma’s lap, stress eat two apple pies, and tell her about how he thinks he might just become an electrician or a plumber or an underwater welder because one of his language professors wants him to come and speak to a lower level class (a gen-ed with over a hundred people in it) about the usefulness of LATIN for all their majors since they can parse the meaning via root word and he had panicked and said ’Sure’.

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The thing about being the only person on the team that knows that FF speaks Russian and is riddled with social anxiety is that it’s absolutely hilarious most of the time.

Every once in a while he has to step in to help the guy.

So sometimes he’ll eat flashcards. Sometimes he’ll distract his cousin with a salacious comment so FF can escape a dangerous conversation with his drunk friend. Sometimes he pushes FF to go talk to Abby about his tummy troubles. Sometimes he’ll hand over one of the brown paper bags he keeps in his backpack nowadays so FF can wheeze into it and sometimes he’ll assure his cousin that FF’s passing out after he offered to teach him how to use a knife was probably because of his stomach ulcers not because FF is terrified of Andrew stabbing him.

Nicky is the only member of the Foxes that FF regularly seeks out on his own to hang out with and Nicky just loves how hard Andrew and Neil are trying not to be jealous about it.

“I want to ask Smith if he wants to come spend Thanksgiving Break with us.” Andrew says out of the blue a week before the aforementioned break when it’s just Aaron, Neil, Nicky and himself in Nicky’s dorm room.

Nicky thinks about FF talking about going back to his hometown in Washington State and how he waxed poetic about spending Thanksgiving Break with his Grandma and how he was going to eat his weight in pie and Macaroni and Cheese.

“He’s planning on going and seeing his grandma. He won’t shut up about it.” Nicky says still glad that FF has a family member like his grandma.

Everyone else in the room look at him.

“He won’t shut up about it?” Aaron asks with an eyebrow raised. Aaron likes FF just fine and appreciates how FF has helped Katelyn start to grasp the fundamentals of the German language so quickly so she can understand what’s being said. “So what he said it twice?” He continues.

Nicky remembers FF’s ability for catastrophizing every conversation with the Foxes into one where it comes out that he speaks Russian and Andrew stabs him. As far as the other Foxes are concerned he’s a man of few words.

“He’s been talking about it all month. If I hear about his grandma’s apple pie recipe one more time I might demand he sneak a slice back for me through TSA.” Nicky loves stoking the flames, especially when the fire is harmless. He watches Aaron shrug and the skin around both Neil and Andrew’s mouths tightens. “You can ask him, the worst he can say is No.” Nicky shrugs.

Nicky is there when Andrew does ask him and he can see the prolonged internal scream of terror on the utterly blank face (or maybe he just imagines it.) and in a way Nicky is a little sad when FF shakes his head and says “No, I have plans with my Grandma.” In an utterly blank voice that means he has functionally blue-screened before turning and walking towards the nearest door so he can reboot in solitude.

“The offer stands if you change your mind.” Neil says and Nicky is impressed with the seemingly very casual thumbs up FF gives as he power walks away.

A little less than a week later Nicky finds Andrew next to FF and FF looking down at a cancelled flight notification after coming in from a truly monumental storm.

Andrew offers Thanksgiving in Columbia again.

Nicky tries to stop it from happening he can see that FF is a little lost in his disappointment over not being able to see his grandma and not thinking clearly but before he can snap him out of it.

“Sure.”

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[huariqueje]

Princess Juliana - Dmitry Shorin , 2018.

Russian, b.1971 -

Oil on canvas , 150 x 97 cm.

[bts-boys]

230622 BTS Jungkook at Incheon International Airport © septemberjk97 do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[willowser]

bakugou must be so high-strung and on edge when he comes back from a long term underground mission 🥺

doesn't sleep well in his own bed for the first week or two, doesn't eat as much as he typically does. probably has lost some weight, even. if you speak too loudly, it has him gritting his jaw on instinct, and he's so jumpy about you touching him, even though he's more aware of you than he ever is. he's quiet typically, but all your attempts at conversation are met with little grunts or one word answers.

it's rough for you both and he knows he's being less than pleasant, but it just takes time to melt back into the comfort of being home 🥺

[straykidsnews]

INSTAGRAM UPDATE @ellemenhk

All members appeared at Incheon Airport in black and white outfits, departing for Milan to attend the /-Days music festival. Stray Kids will be the first K-pop boy group to be the main guest at this music festival

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[magical-magyars]

東京モノレール60周年　2024.8.18　羽田空港第３ターミナル駐車場より

[dorkvania]

I may post more trip pics, I've just been very disorganized about my posting since getting back! But yes, I am back in Portand and visited the Portland Airport Carpet when I got back to PDX

The new terminal is also nice. And the new airport bar has an amazing taplist! I wish I'd known how good, I'd have made time for it when I flew out

[mylovelyhyunjin]

240629 GMP

Hyunjin

[©nabi, ©kenken, ©candy bliss, ©tyulrip]

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[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler arriving together to Incheon International Airport in South Korea on February 19, 2024. 💥💥💥

Credit to Newsen and TV10

[chaddavisphotography]

SkyConnect tram that connects the airport to the parking garage and rental car center.