Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The traveling begins

Hopefully, this blog will help to keep my family and friends updated on my far-flung traveling for work.

Since I am starting this blog after the fact, I will attempt to catch up with some of my thoughts on the first trip which started at the beginning of October, 2009.

My boss called me to make reservations on a Friday to leave for Germany on Monday, continuing on to Malaysia the following Saturday. Researching the travel took a few days. From Malaysia, it was the same distance to go back home traveling east (over the Pacific) or west (back through Europe). Unfortunately, the cost was less to go back over Europe. If it had been my choice, it would have been the Pacific, as that would have completed a round-the-world trip!

The final routing for the trip was St. Louis to Detroit to Amsterdam to Berlin (Tegel); Berlin to Paris (DeGaulle) to Kuala Lumpur; KL to Doha, Quatar, to Washington, DC to St. Louis. Quite a trip over a 2-week period!

So... Off I go!