I'm leaving on a jet-plane...but I do know when I'll be back again..

[shadowkat]

I'm leaving on a jet plane... to see my mother in South Carolina, or rather an island off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday morning. It's raining here now, but tomorrow, it will be sunny in NYC, until I reach South Carolina - where it is supposed to rain for well four of the six days that I'll be down there. (I'm flying out of Laguardia not Newark - I avoid Newark like the plague.) I'm flying back Thursday afternoon.

The song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was written by John Denver, but made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary. (I didn't know it was written by John Denver, I actually thought it was written by Peter, Paul and Mary.)

Other songs that are surprising in that way?

Me and Bobby McGee was written by Kris Kristofferson NOT Janis Joplin.

Blowing in the Wind by Bob Dylan NOT Peter, Paul and Mary.

I will always love you by Dolly Parton NOT Whitney Houston (don't feel sorry for Dolly - she made more money than Whitney ever did off of that song.)

Fancy by Bobbie Gentry NOT Reba McIntire.

At any rate, I most likely won't be posting anything until I get back from South Carolina, sometime next Thursday (which will be late in the evening) or Friday. Off to bed now, since I'm getting up around 4:15 to leave for the airport around 5:15. I need to get there early enough - since airport security is bound to be a headache with the new requirements.

Have a great weekend and week.

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

Have a good trip!

[iddewes]

Have a good time in SC! I'm so glad you're not flying from Newark!
And I knew about Blowing in the Wind and I will always love you but not the others.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Feeling annoyingly smug about knowing who wrote all those songs...

*ducks to avoid incoming projectiles ;-)

kerk

[yourlibrarian]

Have a safe trip!

[cjlasky7]

Safe travels 'kat.

[svgurl]

Safe travels! I hope you have a good visit. :D

[fox_in_me]

I wish to say :
-Have s safe journey, and a flight with perfect pictures of a sky.
For an example, i d like to advise You two songs about airplaines. One in english, and may be will be apprishiated by You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNoXWybvSQg

and other, my favourite, which a ihave tured on on every departure during takeoff.
Translation of the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uIXVdCWVKE

📝 translation

Faith in a dream that walks among us
About love, madly passionate
As shown in the movies
When a sad melody plays

Marathon — days flying by
Again and again, life goes straight ahead
But I just want not to break the strings
When my soul aches, and to have strength

Chorus
To break away from the earth, under the wing of airlines
And fly into the skies, so that no one sees
To break away from the earth, just me and the blue sky
You have tears in your eyes — that's you crying from happiness

Outside the window, the earth lies in fog
I know at home, my love is not sleeping
And enchanted, I search in the sky
Where his little one is flying

Faith in a dream that we must continue to live
About love, where we are happy children
And again, I just want not to break the strings
When my soul aches, and to have strength