After 20 hours in transit, I collapsed.
The trip lasted "thirty-nine hours in transit — forty-four, with delays," she wrote.
Finally, after 40 hours in transit, Kwambai arrived in New York at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The brothers spent 36 hours in transit, passing through Nairobi, Brussels, New York and Minneapolis, jumping nine time zones.
Never one to use a phone when I can spend hours in transit, I was back Friday afternoon.
One morning last November, Mistric spent seven hours in transit, flying from Washington to Houston, then to Lake Charles and driving an hour to Eunice.
"It's an extra five hours in transit time to go up the channel," said Michael Bird, who manages the Houston office of Transmarine Navigation, a shipper based in Long Beach, Calif.
But consider: the partner of – and courier for – a Guardian journalist held for nearly nine hours in transit at Heathrow, his computer and memory sticks seized under a section of the Terrorism Act that even the lawyers who drafted it don't think fits.
Exhausted from hours in transit, travellers without enough time to leave the airport will often pay to access a lounge or hunker down at a restaurant for free wi-fi.
Recently, in preparation for yet another one of my long journeys, I downloaded two new albums to keep me occupied for the 8+ hours in transit.
