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2011 “Bucket List”

With one month to go until 2011, I am in full swing of planning the year. I am not sure you can have a bucket list for a year or whether it is part of a list!! What do you think? I have a very exciting and busy travel schedule for work. I am trying to add some equally exciting travel adventures!! New CountriesMy Goal is to have gone to my fiftieth country by my birthday in July (I am NOT 50 on this Birthday). At this stage, one of  the four I will be…

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I have reached 12.5 weeks in the air

Flew my 222nd Qantas flight today — from Melbourne to Sydney. Also my 53rd (horrible) United Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles (see separate blog article) Altogether 673 air flights totalling 2091:51 hours of flying (12.5 weeks sitting inside tubes of metal)!! In Miles 938,092 In Kilometer 1,509,714 Check out my flight memory.com with travel maps, airlines flown etc. My favourite airlines are listed here. My least favourite airlines are here.

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Taxi Rides from Hell

It is 523am -porch light and two house lights are on -and the front door is open. I have booked a taxi for two minutes later (525am) to ride to Adelaide airport At the afore mentioned hour of 523am, my taxi arrives and sounds his horn. Only Hellish Drivers sound their horn pre-dawn in a quiet suburban street, when I am clearly ready and waiting. I find this behaviour excessive, unnecessary and rude. Hellish Taxi Rides: Uncommunicative taxi drivers (Peeve #2b Opinionated or racist ones that never shut up-there is a happy medium) I walked out to the…

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What 24 hours of flying looks like

This video represents all of the plane flights in a 24 hour period. Its fascinating to watch and makes me hope those air traffic controllers are having a good day! Enjoy! Have a look at the solid mass that is the USA at certain times of the day and the flights between Nth America and Europe. Notice the sparseness of North Africa for flying and what is going on in Asia. Below are my global flights for the World in my life!                  

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