Plane Safety

Hmm...if more years like this keep coming along I might stop being so paranoid about myself and the people I care about flying (though this does NOT change my fear and loathing of those little puddle jumper planes).

What? It could happen! :)

Oh, the places you'll go...

Sorry for the lack of entries; it's been hectic so far this week at work and only going to get worse. I'm off to the airport in a few hours, so expect the rest of the week to be sparse in terms of posting (unless Desiree decides to get prolific).

Doing my usual end-of-year reflection, one of the things that I realized is that I've travelled a lot in the past 18 months or so. Just some of the places I've been in that time:

Austin, TX
Bethesda, MD*
Boulder, CO*
Ehningen, Germany
Herrenberg, Germany
Key West, FL
Miami, FL
Nassau, The Bahamas
Raleigh, NC*
Shanghai, China*
Sindelfingen, Germany
Singapore, Singapore
Somers, NY*
Stuttgart, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Toronto, Canada*
Washington, D.C.*
White Plains, NY*

*multiple trips

That list doesn't include (among other things) the travel to see friends and family, so it's fair to say that I've been in transit quite a bit. Most of it has been work-related (although I think you can pick out the honeymoon location pretty easily from the list above), so there has been very little sightseeing or leisure time. For example, despite being in Singapore for a couple of weeks, the only pictures on my camera when I got home were of the sculpture that memorializes the lives lost during the Japanese occupation of Singapore during World War II. While that's very photo-worthy (link is not to one of my own pictures), I only manged some shots of it because it was visible from my hotel window. :(

More when I return from this week's jaunt...

Air France = bad

I found out the hard way, but this should be enough evidence for the rest of you to never fly (or be anywhere near!) Air France.

Source: AMCGLTD.com