Woman Recreates Epic Trip in Her Own Home Complete with TSA Agent

Dana Jondahl, 34, takes the cake when it comes to at-home isolation re-creations: Jondahl managed to act out the entire air travel experience in a three-minute video for her 34th birthday after the pandemic canceled her plans. 

The video shows her printing her boarding pass at a self-service kiosk, going through security, waiting to board a flight, and getting snacks from a flight attendant on a plane. In the video, she plays a traveler, a TSA agent, a flight attendant, and a marshaller.

Given Jondahl's background in experiential marketing, this incredibly detailed re-creation should come as no surprise, plus, she told Insider she loves to craft.

"My friends always laugh at me because I always go above and beyond," she said. 

An avid traveler, Jondahl was bummed to miss her annual birthday trip, especially since she has plans to visit 50 countries and all 50 states before turning 50. Between that, and being off work until at least September due to the pandemic, she wanted to do something extra special and had time to kill.

She had originally planned to do a drive-in style movie in her backyard using a projector, which her family does often, but wanted to have something fun to sit in at least. When she found an 18-foot inflatable plane online she said "it escalated from there."

She said she started brainstorming what shots she wanted, and what she needed for the video once she came up with the idea of making it. She pulled the whole thing together in four days.

Some of the more involved props were the X-ray machine (a cardboard box she spray painted black and then decorated before pulling her bag through it on a string) and the metal detector (planks of wood she nailed together and wrapped in paper).

She pulled the TSA and flight attendant uniforms together with clothing she had at home, then printed images of badges and logos and pasted them onto cardboard.

In fact, her TSA uniform was so spot-on that a lot of people who commented on her Facebook video assumed she worked for the TSA, she said.


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