I've been to Canada three times in my life — once to Calgary and twice to Victoria. Otherwise, I have never been outside of the Continental United States. Why? Because one of my ideas of hell would be to have to sit on an airplane for more than about six hours. One time when bad weather and tech problems turned a 5.5 hour fight to New York into an 8.5 hour flight, I was ready to just free-fall from the airplane, with or without a parachute.
This video features Scott McCartney, travel writer for The Wall Street Journal, taking the world's longest flight — Newark to Singapore — and giving tips on how to endure the 18+ hour flight. I can't think of anything that could happen in any destination city anywhere that would make me feel that a flight that long was worth it. No combination of money and/or nymphomaniac supermodels would get me on that plane, especially after watching this video…