Yesterday I showed Jake on his world globe our route when we fly from Bangkok January 28 to Narita (Tokyo) to San Francisco to Seattle, stay overnight, and then onward to Denver to Washington-Dulles to Munich, stay overnight, and then onward to Naples, arriving January 31. He’s really getting the idea.
I pointed out Russia on the globe.
“Have you been there, Gappy?” he asked. No, we haven’t yet.
“I’d like you to go everywhere.”
Me too. Plugging in our flights on the WebFlyer MileMarker tool tonight, and understanding there’s a bit of zigging and zagging, the total flying distance BKK-NRT-SFO-SEA-DEN-IAD-MUC-NAP is 15918 miles.
Since Earth is just under 25000 miles in circumference at the Equator, I think we could have found a shortcut, but it would have cost us more money and earned us fewer miles.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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