A Year of Travel

November 6, 2012 • Photography & Travel

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Greetings from 35,000 feet somewhere over Europe. I’m on my way to Perth, West Australia and I don’t think there are 2 cities further apart then New York City and Perth. If you laid out a map flat, held one end of a string on New York and stretched it to Perth (either going west or east) and spun it around you would not encounter another city.

Perhaps I just have lots of spare time on this flight and I’m done being productive and reflective. I have 3 more hours left on this 12 and a half hour flight to Dubai. Then a two and a half hour layover there before doing it all over again with another eleven and a half hours to Perth. Groundhog day flight!

So, in thinking about all the travel I’ve done this year, I decided to list the countries and cities I’ve been to in 2012. So, here goes….

January
South India – Chennai, Tiruvannamalai, Chidambaram, Rameswaram Island, Madurai, Trichy

February
Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur
Indonesia – islands of Lombok, two of the Gili islands, central Java (Yogyakarta and Borobudur)
South India – Chennai, Mamallapuram, Pondicherry, Swamimalai, Chidambaram, Chettinad, Madurai

March
US Virgin Islands – St. John and St. Thomas

April
Colorado – Eagle

May
United Arab Emirates – Dubai
Bahrain – Manama

June
South India – Chennai, Madurai

July
North India – Jodhpur, Nagaur, New Delhi, Mumbai

August
Missouri – St. Louis
California – Los Angelas, San Diego

September
Austria – Vienna
Turkey – Istanbul

October
Russia – Moscow
Germany – Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin
Austria – Salzburg

November
Australia – Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Sydney
New Zealand – Auckland

December
Costa Rica

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