Summary and thoughts - no pictures

So I am home - yikes. I am so tired I can't function but I am in the office trying. (or trying to stay out of trouble) I wanted to put down some statistics for my flying buddies and for the people interested in geography.

On this trip I flew a total of 17,608 nautical miles. I heard the around the world trip is 24,000 so not really that much further. (yea easy to say sitting in my office) I flew the airplane a total of 80.2 hours which works out to an average speed of 220 knots per hour. I burned a total of 5,805 gallons of Jet A (38,896 pounds) which works out to an average of 72.4 gallons per hour. I flew IMC (in clouds) a total of 27.3 hours. I landed the plane 32 times in 14 different countries. I got to overfly Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (kind of - off shore) Uruguay, Paraguay and countless Island from South America to Palm Beach Florida. I also got to overfly the Panama Canal, Cape Horn and from Grenada to Nevis at very very low altitude. The countries visited:

Grand Cayman
Columbia
Panama
Ecuador
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
French Guiana
Grenada
Nevis
Dominican Republic
Turks and Cacaos
USA

I got to practice my Spanish in many of the countries and all of the Spanish speaking countries I liked very much. As opposed to the Portuguese speaking countries - not to mention them by name. The people I met were all welcoming and kind - inefficient by our standards but not by theirs. I want to go back to the Bahamas or more specifically the Caribbean as there are many places I now want to see. Having a plane in that part of the world makes it possible and even easy. (it is just the flight across the USA that is difficult) I would also like to spend more time in Columbia - they spoke the best Spanish and were really sweet people.

I appreciate all of the positive comments received on the blog and I am sad that it is over. What am I going to do with the two hours every night that it took to do the blog? Hmmmm? Sleep?