January 11th, 2007
A Year in Travel
So that’s a map of my travel in the last year - January to January. My best travel year yet, really. Slightly over 86,000 km. Noteworthy trips included:
- A very rewarding journey through India, Dubai, and South Africa (write up of first half of that trip here, pictures from each section linked through the country name)
- A quick jaunt to Bermuda - who knew such waters were so close to DC?
- A multipurpose trip out west - a wedding in San Francisco, some hiking in the Grand Canyon, and the DailyKos convention in Vegas.
- Mexico City and Tepoztlan, for a wedding - I can’t recall the last time I’d traveled with so many friends.
- My year end voyage - Istanbul, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore, and Athens (where, as we drove by the American Embassy - you know, the one just hit by a rocket - the cab driver pointed it out as the safest building in Greece . . . ).
I am very lucky, indeed. Want a similar map for yourself? Check out the Great Circle Mapper. Nifty tool.
Blacknell.net » Istanbul, Part I says:
[...] As mentioned yesterday, I capped off what turned out to be quite the year of travel earlier this week. This final trip was the result of wanting to join a close friend in his hometown to celebrate his recent wedding. His hometown? Karachi. Not exactly a weekend in upstate New York. After consulting the combined crystal balls of the internet, work requirements, and my own hope to one day touch down in every country on the planet, the trip was broken into three parts: a long Christmas weekend in Istanbul, Turkey on the way there, a week in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan itself, and then a few recovery days in Athens on the way out. [...]
January 12th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Vivian J. Paige says:
Wow.
January 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Blacknell.net » Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fee Settlement says:
[...] know about you, but I don’t keep my credit cards records for 10+ years. I know what I did last year. 1997? Not so [...]
December 14th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Travel says:
There are some great LATravelYTb places to go to that most people have not even seen. Hawaii is old.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Travel says:
The best place to Travel is still Hawaii. I love that place.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Blacknell.net » Akihabara: Lost in Trancelation says:
[...] have been lucky enough in my life to have traveled a fair bit, and never do I enjoy it as much as when I feel like I’ve been thrust into an entirely [...]
September 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm