Inception

My passion and desire for travel (and subsequently cuisine, culture, foreign language, adventure, and photography) began at a relatively early age as my family traveled together frequently.  However, I really hit my stride while living in Florence, Italy during the Spring of 2007.  So, as much as I’d like to jump right into telling you about my latest weekend in Zürich, strolling the rocky beaches of the Côte d'Azur, a spontaneous flight to London, or an exotic getaway on a Thai island paradise, I’m going to “Tarantino” this blog for a short while.  I’d like to go back to where this began, and tell you about some of my travels in retrospect, and I’ll try to quickly bring you up to date.  

Presently, I work for a major airline whose logo is a red triangle - representing change in a variable, the fourth in a series of items, or the mouth of a river.  If you can’t figure out which one I’m talking about, move on to a blog about cats doing stupid things.  

As a non-revenue passenger since September 2010, I have logged over 80,000 miles and cashed in on over $65,000 worth of flights on the airline. 

This is travel solely for pleasure, not for business.

Now, let me take you back to January, 2007.