Category: Travel
Westward…
Wow – flying from Manchester to JFK and onto San Diego with no delays or interrogations? I almost don’t believe it…maybe America’s loosening up in anticipation of a new President, maybe it’s no longer realistic to put Husseins on the Do Not Fly list or perhaps I just got lucky 🙂 During the next few…
Pakonaut
My Dad just told me Pakistan’s first astronaut, Namira Salim, would be flying with NASA in 2009. I quipped ‘only if she’s not carrying any liquids, gels, shampoos or lip gloss‘. However upon closer examination, the story is sadly not of a Pakistani scientist or engineer reaching the pinnacle of her career, but simply the…
Aerial Blogging
Blogging at 40’000 feet. Neat. I’m using Boeing’s Connexion wifi service, onboard Lufthansa LH435 from Chicago O’Hare to Munich (that’s a story for a later post, I’ve missed five connections in the last week!). Connexion is soon to be closed, so like John Dunbar, I wanted to see the frontier before it was gone. I’ve…
Way-Dar
Chris Masters, one of our senior designers at Orange is currently travelling from London to Ulaanbaatar. Chris is travelling with a satellite phone from which he’s periodically texting a particular email address; the mail server parses the email for GPS coordinates and plots them onto a Google map (I think it’s generating KMZs too). His…
Transit Ghost
This year I’ve travelled through three continents, seven countries, fourteen cities and ten hotels; between 21st January and 12th April my longest stay in the UK was nineteen days… 11004 miles in January (Manchester-London-SanFrancisco-London-Manchester) 7020 miles in February (Manchester-Dubai-Manchester) 12280 miles in March (Manchester-Chicago-SanDiego-Vancouver-Chicago-Manchester) [1] 9823 miles in April (Manchester-Islamabad-Lahore-Karachi-Lahore-Karachi-London) [2] 1450 miles in May…