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My grandfather passed away a few days ago, so I am flying to NY for the funeral.

Been retired a few years now and honestly it's nerve wracking to travel at this point. I flew to see him on his 90th birthday ....actually 2 years ago.....and the long flight cross country really thrashed my feet. They swelled up like crazy. I said I wasn't gonna do a flight like that again, but the funeral is on Wed, so there was no other way to get there in time.

I'm flying Southwest....because it was the only way to get tickets for under like $900 on such short notice (still gonna be $600 round trip), and they don't have assigned seats. Hopefully I will still be able to grab an aisle seat though, so I can stand up mid flight a few times. I was told standing up and walking around may help (I think it has more to do with the alititude though because I can sit long periods of time on the ground and my feet don't blow up).

I fly out tomorrow at 7:30 am, gonna take uber to the airport (about $50) and leave at around 6 am (should only take 30 minutes to get there). It says to arrive 30 minutes early, so hopefully getting there 1 hour early will be good enough.

This will probably be the last time my family gets together as well. Everyone loved my Grandfather, he was a really great person, and made a difference in many peoples lives. He is going to be missed by many. I wouldn't have gone for pretty much any other reason, but I couldn't not be there to say goodbye.

Maybe if I can handle the trip and it's not to bad it'll help motivate me to travel other places. I would love to go to Europe sometime before I get to old/ill to move around anymore. I'm still in good enough shape etc to travel, I just get stressed out to easily at this point, don't like driving and on a very fixed budget so it's pretty hard to actually travel anywhere.
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