Recently I was calculating my travels from Halloween onward.
It went like this:
From Indianapolis
To Payne OH
To Indianapolis
To Chicago
To Frankfurt
To Dubai
To Kabul
To Bamyian Valley
To Kabul
To Bishkek
To Dushanbe
To Astana
To Frankfurt
To Chicago
To Indianapolis
To Chicago
To Milwaukee
To Manitowoc
To Green Bay
To Milwaukee
To Chicago
To Indianapolis
To Chicago
To London
To Cairo
To Ghiza
To Cairo
To Frankfurt
To Chicago
To Indianapolis
To Detroit
To Payne OH
To Indianapolis
To Las Vegas
To San Jose
To Chicago
To Ottawa
To Chicago
To Indianapolis
To Chicago
To Beijing
To Chicago
To Indianapolis
To Charlotte
To Knoxville
To Oak Ridge
To Knoxville
To Philadelphia
To St. Louis
To Indianapolis.
That, my friends, was six weeks in my life.
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Comments (6)
I don't see Miami on there. My mind could be failing me in my old age. Have you been to SOUTHCOM lately?
Posted by Matt R.
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December 16, 2007 9:03 AM
Wow! Unless I missed a connection, that works out roughly to 56,000 to 58,000 miles of travel with side trips. You would average out at over 1350 miles per day for the past six weeks. More than, "Twice Around the World in 42 Days." ;o)
Posted by historyguy99
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December 16, 2007 11:49 AM
Good grief. No wonder you got sick, which brings up an interesting point. I was talking to a friend of mine who maintains that while he is always seeing sick flight attendants in his practice, he is never seeing sick pilots. Why? Pilots have their own closed air circulation system...
Posted by BWJones | December 16, 2007 2:01 PM
Wow. So I suppose that you are eagerly awaiting the time when will Enterra be big enough to provide you with your own private jet?
Posted by Charles | December 16, 2007 2:20 PM
I suspect you don't see sick pilots because they are at home (they don't get cleared to fly). It ain't about what you breath so much as what you touch. Handwashing is your most effective intervention.
Posted by TEJ
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December 17, 2007 8:37 AM
So the question is now, what are you going to do with all those frequent-flier miles? And I suspect you're exploring dimensions of jet lag hitherto unknown to most.
Make sure you buy some stock in the airlines, because you're single-handedly helping to push the value up. And you must be getting to know all the people at the airports. Every time they see you walking up the concourse they must be saying, "Here comes Tom again. How many flights will you be taking today, Dr. Barnett? Only six? Well that's understandable, we all need to cut back as we get older."
On a positive note, according to Einstein, time, and as a result aging, slows down as velocity increases, so by now you must have added at least an hour or two to your lifespan with all this fly. Maybe you should consider investing in the purchase of one of those Navy surplus F-14's, that way you can slow the aging process to a crawl, while flying supersonic everywhere you go. And it would definitely be more fun than Botox. :-)
Posted by Aaron B. Brown | December 17, 2007 6:38 PM