Flying Standby

This is a short tutorial on how to dress to fly standby. It sounds restrictive at first – no denim, no sleeveless, no shorts, business casual, etc. It’s difficult to incorporate one’s standby outfit into the rest of the clothes one plans to wear on a backpacking, hiking, or beach vacation.

This should help you. Go skirt. For Europe, I wore a strappy black dress that, on its own was a great little versatile number for going out or heading to the beach.

Go layers. I covered up that black strappy dress with a brown sweater and belted it at the waist. Paired with your most comfortable heels, you look classy and are blissfully comfortable!

Go non-wrinkle. Today, I’ve donned some grey dress pants from Express, a black long-sleeve knit top, and covered it with a white knit sweater. It’s a very cute outfit, if I do say so. What’s more, I can wear the sweater over my yoga clothes as a wrap, the black long-sleeve tee anytime, and these great polyester blend pants won’t wrinkle in my cramped bag!

So, you’re standby travel outfit doesn’t have to be it’s own thing – you CAN incorporate into your travel wardrobe. For those of you who don’t fly standby, you CAN look nice when you travel. It’s kinda fun. :-)

So far, so good. I’ve made it to Miami and am chillin’ out the USO here, swingin’ some free internet, free food, and free drinks. I will SO volunteer at a USO one day! They are great!

I’m hoping to get on the flight to San Jose tonight, but it’s looking really tight. We’ll see. Thanks for all your prayers!

[8 hours later]

I got on the flight!!!! I’m in San Jose now! And the hotel I’m in is pretty stinkin’ awesome for $55. But, now that I’ve showered the many hours of airport off me, I’m struggling to stay awake. I’ll leave you with this picture of the shower in my room.

Isn’t it awesome!? I love shower/rooms!