I will never forget my first plane ride.
I was twelve years old and my parents had booked a family trip to visit my cousins in another state.
My parents usually drive if we are going to another state because we all like to see the countryside. But when plane tickets were on sale, my parents couldn’t resist purchasing them. I was nervous, I had never been on a plane before and the idea of being thousands of feet in the sky wasn’t comforting. When we boarded the plane we found our seats. I overheard my parents having a discussion about the indoor air quality of the plane. My parents were always very particular when it came to having good air quality. At home we had the best HVAC system money could buy, and a whole home air purification system. I only knew this because my parents would go on and on about it. So hearing them talk about air quality and HVAC technology wasn’t all that unusual. My mom said she had always heard that the indoor air quality on planes was poor but she was pleasantly surprised when she found out the opposite was true. The plane was nice and cool, the temperature was just right and I got to sit in the window seat after telling my parents how much I wanted to see clouds up close. After some time I got bored and put my headphones in. All in all the trip went much better than I expected and I couldn’t wait to go on another plane again in the near future.