Trip Stats

So here are the grand totals:

Travel

I spent 23 hours and 52 minutes on 9 flights and covered 8565 miles in that time for an average speed of around 360 miles per hour.

I visited 10 cities (Long Beach, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, New York City and Brooklyn) and marked 13 pillows with pomade. I caught up with countless friends and made a number of new ones along the way.

Photography

I took 5800 photos for an average of 187 photos a day. 2165 of those come from the 2 burlesque shows I had the pleasure of shooting.

Camera breakdown:

  • Canon PowerShot G10: 611
  • Sony Alpha 700: 4782
  • iPhone 3GS: 316

I got a lot more out of my iPhone than the numbers would indicate. I enjoyed shooting little things along the way and the iPhone was always the camera on hand. I didn’t enjoy the G10 as much. It was good for in the plane shots and self portraits, but I didn’t get much out of it otherwise.

City Breakdown:

  • Long Beach: 195
  • Seattle: 539
  • San Francisco: 1755 (918 at Hubba Hubba Revue)
  • Chicago: 834
  • Boston: 241
  • Baltimore: 96
  • Washington DC: 255
  • New York: 1885 (1262 at NY Burlesque Fest)

Next step is going through all my photos and publishing the best. I’ll also be telling tales from the adventure as I remember them. I had a great time and couldn’t have done it without help from my friends, family and sponsors, both here and around the country. Thanks everyone!

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Nathan Black, October 18th 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Flight Log 6 – ORD to BOS

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IMG_11472 hours 13 minutes
864 miles
Seat 4A

Got to the airport in plenty of time, this time. The plane was late arriving so the flight ran 30 minutes late. It was cool since I got to hang out with a pair of lovely social workers from Boston who gave me a bunch of tips for this leg of the trip. The flight itself was very straight forward. By the numbers if a bit rushed getting us all on there. Even with the rush everything was up to the standards I have come to expect from JetBlue.

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Nathan Black, September 24th 2009 | Tags: , , , , ,
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ORD Tattoo

ORD Tattoo

The trip tattoos are going well, the SFO tattoo is almost done peeling. It will be nice to see the final colors when it is all healed up. I’m liking how distinct each tattoo is.

The latest trip tattoo was designed by my gracious host in Chicago Jason Chalker of Manly Art fame. The tattoo was inked by Scott Santee at Metamorph Studio.

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Nathan Black, September 23rd 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
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Flight Log 5 – LGB to ORD

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LGB to ORD

4 hours
1731 miles
Seat 9B

Ran to the airport late, the auto check-in didn’t work for me and the TSA felt they needed to check out my toiletries. I told the TSA agent that Long Beach was my favorite airport so far and showed him my LGB tattoo as proof. That only brought further delays as then all the other TSA agents needed to see it.

Still made my plane in time.

The flight was the longest one so far, but it wasn’t too bad. Watched some terrible movie on FX with Chow Yun Fat and that Stiffler kid. Terrible like a car wreck, couldn’t look away.

Now comes the part of the trip where I’m not staying places for very long. I’m looking forward to more flying!

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Nathan Black, September 21st 2009 | Tags: , , , , ,
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The itinerary is mostly done

The ItineraryWhoop!

Looks great guys. I’ve got the itinerary nailed. Got the flights booked. A very nice lady named Sharon helped me out over the phone. Everyone at JetBlue has been really awesome and excited about people travelling. Sharon said that most of the people she has helped book have been consumer fliers like myself instead of business folk. I can’t wait to meet fellow fliers in the air. Should be a great trip.

Here is the itinerary as it currently stands:

Sept 8 – 9 Long Beach, CA
Sept 9 – 13 Seattle, WA
Sept 13 – 19 San Francisco, CA
Sept 19 – 23 Chicago, IL
Sept 23 – 27 Boston, MA
Sept 27 – Oct 2 Baltimore & DC
Oct 2 – 8 New York City, NY
Oct 8 – ? Austin, TX

I haven’t quite nailed down the Baltimore and DC sections of the flight plan, but everything esle I’ve got dialed in. Can’t wait to see everyone!

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Nathan Black, August 19th 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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