Well the trip to Tennessee is literally days away now. This is my first solo trip, so I've spent some time surfing the web (the internet is great for that!) for tips to while away the 11 hour transatlantic flight.

I've found some useful and radical options.

1. Magazines (Pretty much goes without saying. Lightweight reading material, but there's only so much magazine-reading you can handle in 11 hours).
2. Newspapers. (See 1).
3. A book or two (See 1).
4. An electronic game (May give me eye-strain after some time, but still worth taking.... now if only I could find it!).

Now it get's a bit more radical.....

5. A sketch pad and pencil (great idea, but sketching the carpet or the back of the seat in front of me is going to lose it's appeal after a while).
6. A colouring book. (I actually like this idea, but I decided not to go for the Flopsy Bunny & her friends avoiding the odd looks from my fellow passengers and plumbed instead for a book of tessellations and patterns).
7. A pad of coloured paper and some origami instructions. (Something I thought up independently actually. I'm quite proud of myself!).
8. Laptop + games (A sure winner, but I don't think even a fully-charged battery has 11 hours life in it).
9. In-flight entertainment (depends what's on of course!).

Of course if you have any better suggestions I'd be delighted to hear them.