(Kevin and I outside of a big Gothic cathedral in Prague)
We're finally back in Weinan! We have been gone for years. Or 6 weeks anyway, but it feels like years. It was great to get to see so many places...the Colosseum, the Vatican, the Pantheon, the pyramids, Europe in general. Whether I actually get around to telling you about it is questionable, because what do you say, really? “Prague was beautiful. The pyramids were big. Such and such was interesting.” That's pretty boring. At some point we will put some pictures up online, but since Kevin took 1200+ pictures, it might take a while to go through them. In the meantime, I will try to fill up this recent blogging void a few random thoughts I had while traveling. The first, naturally, was related to traveling itself.
Sitting next to Kevin on our last flight back to China, I thought back to the first flight we took together. We already knew each other then, but I feel like our relationship was more or less founded out of those 12 hours together. It seems like a very appropriate start to our relationship, since we have since spent so much time in airports and on planes and traveling in general.
I started to wonder how many flights we have been on together and counting up in my head. There were so many that I kept getting confused and had to start tally marks on a piece of paper. Then I started wondering how many flights I've taken overall, and the proportion of pre-China to post-China travel. (It was the middle of a long international flight and I couldn't sleep and I had already watched several dumb movies, so what else did I have to do?) I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a few, but here are the results of my calculations.
1983-2005 flights (pre-China): 18 (half of these were from going to Laos)
2005-2010 flights on my own: 21
2005-2010 flights with Kevin: 43
Total lifetime flights:81
Total flights in the last 5 years: 64
That's a lot of flights. I can only imagine how much time we've spent in airports! Of those 63, about 19 were significant international flights (meaning somewhere between 5-14 hours). 78% of my flying has been done in the last 19% of my life. Hmm, which means I have spent 19% of my life in China (or traveling to and from it). Wow, I'm young.
So anyway, I thought that it was all kind of interesting and sad. Sad because unfortunately, I still hate traveling...
2 comments:
Wow! I just counted and I've only had 26 flights in all of my almost 60 years! I do have a huge number of trips to the airport though.
Maybe you can stay on the ground for a while now.
Geez, I only have 41 flights (I think). I've got a lot of traveling to do in the next 4 years if I'm going to catch up. Although admittedly, I'd be okay with not quite that many flights... I have been through 19 airports, though, which seems like an awful lot.
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