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Well, we're back home now safe and sound after 71 days of flying all around the world. It will take a while for everything to fully sink in; that we actually flew ourselves completely around the entire world. This is an accomplishment I would have never imagined achieving for myself when I first was learning to fly. I mean, most pilots get a big kick out of flying over to the next...

More than any other experience on this journey, it's the food, how people produce and prepare it; how they share their meals, that has defined this flight around the world. Nearly every approach into every new town or city we flew into was preceded by a patchwork carpet of agricultural fields. Most were growing rice. From India through the entirety of our Asian travels- all the way to...

Flying out from Seattle- yet another thirteen hundred mile leg; this time heading for Oklahoma City. Things were beginning to feel very familiar- too familiar even. JP, exhausted after tending to the needs of five aircraft, crew, and passengers, for the past three months, slept in the back wrapped in a blanket like a cocoon. He'll probably sleep for a week once he gets home- he slept...

We'd wanted to spend a few days in Alaska, take some excursions to the mountains and capture some great landscape photos, or see whales and glaciers, but the weather was just too cold and rainy. A lot of the local folks we visited with said that they haven't seen a real summer up there in three years, 'Alaskans are all for global warming,' one of the guys at the airport was telling...

Leaving Russia was one of the happiest moments of the entire trip. As we climbed out from the remote Siberian outpost of Anadyr, Art and I cheered our successful getaway. Alaska was yet another nine hundred mile flight away, but we didn't care, we could see the finish line. Then by chance, from over the radio, we picked up a transmission from another plane in our group. It took us by...

I once knew a man who had lived through terrible trauma. He and his sister used to own a small art and frame shop just off Hillview Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. I worked there part-time while I was in college. They were Dutch, and had spent their childhood on the family coffee plantation in Indonesia. Then the Japanese came, and the family was incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp...

Well, sorry to be late in getting this out, but we've had an issue with the flaps on the airplane that kept us in Taipei, Taiwan, for an extra day. It was quite an adventure but turned out OK for now. For the initiated, the flaps on an airplane are used to reduce the distance traveled down the runway during takeoff- (adds more lift) and also to reduce the speed of the airplane at...

At every turn of our journey there have been surprises, Taipei, Taiwan, the Island of Formosa, is yet another example of how our preconceptions can be so easily erased. I'd always thought of Taiwan as a tiny titan, a major manufacturing base for the semiconductor industry, as well as numerous other technology based businesses and light manufacturing, but in truth many of those jobs...