Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A little football wisdom
If there should ever be an office pool to pick the winning football teams each week, Chad's the man! Three out of five! That's amazing!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Anticipation
While most of Indonesia is primarily Muslim, Bali is about 95% Hindu. It sounds like there are temples galore.
According to my calculations (OK, Google Earth's calculations, but it couldn't have done it without my assistance), it's 10,200 flight miles to Bali one way--that's SLC to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Singapore to Denpasar (Bali)--and about 26 hours of flight time. We will cross the International Date line, so it may actually be yesterday when I get there or get back home. The mathematician in me will have to figure it out before I leave, or maybe I will just use that handy World Clock feature on my cell phone.
This will be the furthest south I have ever been (and the first time that I have crossed the equator). My previous southern record was Mexico City, or was it the Dead Sea? Northern is Oslo, Norway, or maybe Skagway, Alaska. I guess it's the furthest west (or east, depending on your perspective), too. Those records were Kauai, Hawaii and Moscow, Russia.
Bali is about four times the size of Oahu and about 8 degrees south of the equator. It will be early summer when we arrive. Although, being that close to the equator, I think it is probably always early or mid summer.
And, I'll get to add numbers 24 and 25 to my list of countries visited. I'm counting Hong Kong, even though it's only a layover. Does it count if they don't stamp your passport?
Well, that's enough boring geography for today. What subject shall we tackle tomorrow?
According to my calculations (OK, Google Earth's calculations, but it couldn't have done it without my assistance), it's 10,200 flight miles to Bali one way--that's SLC to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Singapore to Denpasar (Bali)--and about 26 hours of flight time. We will cross the International Date line, so it may actually be yesterday when I get there or get back home. The mathematician in me will have to figure it out before I leave, or maybe I will just use that handy World Clock feature on my cell phone.
This will be the furthest south I have ever been (and the first time that I have crossed the equator). My previous southern record was Mexico City, or was it the Dead Sea? Northern is Oslo, Norway, or maybe Skagway, Alaska. I guess it's the furthest west (or east, depending on your perspective), too. Those records were Kauai, Hawaii and Moscow, Russia.
Bali is about four times the size of Oahu and about 8 degrees south of the equator. It will be early summer when we arrive. Although, being that close to the equator, I think it is probably always early or mid summer.
And, I'll get to add numbers 24 and 25 to my list of countries visited. I'm counting Hong Kong, even though it's only a layover. Does it count if they don't stamp your passport?
Well, that's enough boring geography for today. What subject shall we tackle tomorrow?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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