PERSONAL ESSAY

What Will Flight Feel Like Now?

Thoughts on my first plane trip since “Before”

Julio Vincent Gambuto
5 min readApr 19, 2021

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Delta Airlines Ad, 1950s | Photo Credit

I had never been on a plane until college. My friends are always surprised to learn that. (I had also never been to a concert nor had I eaten sushi, but those are stories for another time.) As a kid, we only really ever went on vacation to Florida, and we drove. Nothing says “family…

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Julio Vincent Gambuto

Author + Moviemaker // Happiness in a fucked-up modern world // New book from Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster) // Audie Finalist // SXSW // juliovincent.com