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- | ‘A lady at the bus stop screamed’ | + | Their five minute airplane chat led to lasting love [[https://trip36.win/ |
- | On June 14, finding the roads blocked, Kang canceled her plans to travel to northern Iran and stayed home playing card games and cooking with her host family. While seated on the carpets woven with Isfahan patterns, they served her bread, tea and traditional Iranian foods, while she treated them to Chinese spicy hotpot, known as malatang, and to milk tea. | + | On a recent transatlantic flight from Florida to London Heathrow, married flight attendants Hunter Smith-Lihas |
- | That was the last homestay | + | The two men smiled at each other, |
- | In the early morning of June 15, she set off to Tehran by bus. On the way, Kang says a police officer stopped the vehicle for a security check, and she was asked to put on a headscarf. | + | This shared smile was fleeting, but spoke volumes. And later, when Hunter |
- | “Approaching Tehran, I saw black smoke, which scared me,” she says. | + | |
- | Arriving | + | “I met you for five minutes on the airplane when I wasn’t even supposed to, and now we’re living |
- | “I heard sounds | + | “You never think when you meet someone for the first time like that, that it’d go this far. So it’s kind of surreal. And it honestly just makes you so happy, because you’re like, how did I get here?” |
- | Although some residents looked frustrated, she says the city was quite calm. During | + | Airplane meeting |
- | “Around 50 years ago, this place was known as the ‘Little Paris of the Middle East’,” she says. “Now, most people seem to carry a sense of gloom, complaining about the government. Some strike me as highly talented | + | Honeymooning: |
+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | Hunter Smith-Lihas | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh | ||
+ | Long distance: John and Hunter lived in different cities, but traveled to meet one another when they could. Here they are on a trip to Los Angeles during | ||
+ | Growing relationship: | ||
+ | Surprise trip: For Hunter' | ||
+ | New adventures: After just over a year of long distance, John and Hunter moved in together and both moved to Detroit. "It was an adjustment," says Hunter. "But I think overall, it was more of an adventure." | ||
+ | Puerto Rico proposal: On a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hunter asked John to marry him. "It all clicked, like the rest of my life is coming together perfectly," | ||
+ | Honeymooning: | ||
+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh | ||
+ | Photos: How two flight attendants fell in love on an airplane | ||
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+ | How Hunter and John got here was via a series of unexpected moments and decisions starting six years ago, in 2017. | ||
- | Kang finally got on a bus departing from Tehran at 10 p.m. and fell asleep. The next morning, she awoke to discover the bus had traveled less than 100 kilometers, caught | + | Back then, Hunter was just known as Hunter Smith. He was in his early 20s and working as a gate agent for Spirit Airlines. He’d aspired |
- | “I was tired and hungry,” she says, adding that there was no bathroom on board the bus. After a few more struggles due to language barriers, she eventually found another bus to Maku. From there, she was able to take a taxi to the Turkish border. Crossing into Turkey at midnight, it then took another 22 hours to get to Istanbul, where she was able to catch a flight to Taiwan. | + | “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is the best job ever. I definitely want to do something like this,’” Hunter tells CNN Travel today. |
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+ | After he graduated college, Hunter secured a gate staff position in his home city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role was the perfect foot in the aviation door. | ||
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+ | Working the airport gate, Hunter interacted with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. As a sociable person, he always enjoyed | ||
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+ | But Spirit Airlines’ employment pool was so big he rarely met the same flight attendants twice. | ||
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+ | One morning, one of Hunter’s gate attendant coworkers asked if he could pass on some papers | ||
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+ | This kind of task, says Hunter, was “typically not my job, I did not normally do that.” | ||