A Forty Nine Flight Year or Is It Fifty After All?

Wow, I can't believe it.  This morning I booked flight 48 and 49 of my 365 day adventure.  I actually thought I had 50 flights until I wrote them out and realized it was only 49.


Here's what my year abroad will look like by the time I land back in Vancouver on Dec 23, 2009.

1. Vancouver - Hong Kong (Dec 08)

2. Hong Kong - Bangkok (Dec 08)

3. Bangkok - Krabi (Dec 08)

4. Krabi - Samui (Dec 08)

5. Samui - Bangkok (Jan 09)

6. Bangkok - Chiang Mai (Jan 09)

7. Chiang Mai - Bangkok (Jan 09)

8. Bangkok -  Hong Kong (Jan 09)

9. Hong Kong - Adelaide (Jan 09)

10. Adelaide - Melbourne (Jan 09)

11. Melbourne - Alice Springs (Jan 09)

12. Alice Springs - Melbourne (Jan 09)

13. Melbourne - Canberra (March 09)

14. Canberra - Melbourne (March 09)

15. Melbourne - Auckland (April 09)

16. Auckland - Tauranga (April 09)

17. Napier - Wellington (April 09)

18. Wellington - Auckland (April 09)

19. Auckland - Melbourne (April 09)

20. Melbourne - Sydney (May 09)

21. Sydney - Melbourne (May 09)

22. Melbourne - Perth (May 09)

23. Perth - Melbourne (May 09)

24. Melbourne - Adelaide (June 09)

25. Adelaide - Melbourne (June 09)

26. Melbourne - Brisbane (June 09)

27. Brisbane - Cairns (June 09)

28. Cairns - Brisbane (July 09)

29. Brisbane - Prosperine (July 09)

30. Prosperine - Brisbane (July 09)

31. Brisbane - Melbourne (July 09)

32 Melbourne - Darwin (Aug 09)

33. Darwin - Melbourne (Aug 09)

34 Melbourne - Hobart (Aug 09)

35. Hobart - Melbourne (Aug 09)

36. Melbourne - Sydney (Sept 09)

37. Sydney - Hervey Bay (Sept 09)

38. Ballina - Sydney (Oct 09)

(although I ended up flying out of Coolangatta)

39. Sydney - Melbourne (Oct 09)

*40. Melbourne - Adelaide (Oct 09)

*41. Adelaide - Melbourne (Oct 09)

*42. Melbourne - Lauceston (Oct 09)

*43. Lauceston - Melbourne (Oct 09)

*44. Melbourne - Brisbane (Nov 09)

*45. Brisbane - Melbourne (Nov 09)

*46. Melbourne - Coolangatta (Nov 09)

*47. Coolangatta - Melbourne (Nov 09)

*48. Melbourne - Hong Kong (Dec 09)

*49. Hong Kong - VANCOUVER!!! (Dec 09)

* = still to come


But, as I look back on my adventures I DID fly in a helicopter over the Great Ocean Road back in February.  So the question to you readers is... does that make my count 50?