You do the math; my brain is tired.
This morning, while dragging my jet-lagged weary body out of bed, I tried to do some calculations. Yes, even math people have problems counting when they are tired. (Shh, don't tell any of my former students that fact!) The magic number was 5 in 6 months or 6 in 7 months. Or an average of almost one a month.
Any way you look at it, it seems like a lot. That's how many flights I've made over the Atlantic in 2009. 3,931 air miles just getting over the pond. Okay, so maybe I can't count, but I still think it terms of numbers. When you add in the JFK to RDU leg, that's 4,357 air miles per trip. You do the math. (21,785 for 5 trips or 26,142 for all 6 trips are the correct answers. Check your work.)
I had never even been over the Atlantic until May 2006. Now between both of our sons getting married this year and one of them moving across the US, I made 3 round-trips between Switzerland and the US from December 2008 until June 2009.
Whew. And the year is not over.
Of course, when you compare that to the mileage Bob logs, it's miniscule. But I can vouch for the fact that 26,142 air miles is a long time to sit on a plane.
Any way you look at it, it seems like a lot. That's how many flights I've made over the Atlantic in 2009. 3,931 air miles just getting over the pond. Okay, so maybe I can't count, but I still think it terms of numbers. When you add in the JFK to RDU leg, that's 4,357 air miles per trip. You do the math. (21,785 for 5 trips or 26,142 for all 6 trips are the correct answers. Check your work.)
I had never even been over the Atlantic until May 2006. Now between both of our sons getting married this year and one of them moving across the US, I made 3 round-trips between Switzerland and the US from December 2008 until June 2009.
Whew. And the year is not over.
Of course, when you compare that to the mileage Bob logs, it's miniscule. But I can vouch for the fact that 26,142 air miles is a long time to sit on a plane.
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