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
