Well, is it really round?

Well, I did it. Got my Around the World Ticket(s) to fly. Right now scheduled to leave May 24 and returning July 3 going west. These tickets are all changeable, so I may tweak it here and there a bit. 

If not now, when?  Let’s get the negatives out of the way.

Honolulu – it is too busy
Tokyo – it rains all day every day in June
Singapore – melting hot and humid
Dubai – blazing hot and arid
London – Great Britain will be in total Brexit collapse by then 
Bermuda – what could possibly go wrong here, hurricane maybe.

I wasn’t sure that I was going to actually do it.  I have wanted to do this since first found out about PanAm’s Around the World flights. And, Singapore and Dubai are long time bucket list places for me. If not now, when?  

Check out this list of “Fees”

Carrier Surcharge/Fee 279.00 USD Airline Insurance Surcharge 512.40 USD U.S. Animal and Plant Inspection Service Users Fee 3.96 USD Immigration and Naturalization Service Fee 7.00 USD U.S. Customs Fee 5.77 USD U.S. International Transportation Tax – Departure 18.60 USD International Arrival Transportation Tax (USA) 18.60 USD US Intl Transportation Tax 135.65 USD September 11th Security Fee 11.20 USD Flight Segment Tax – USA 8.40 USD Tax description unavailable (TKVC) 9.14 USD Passenger Service Facilities Charge – Japan 23.48 USD Tax description unavailable (L7DE) 8.00 USD Tax description unavailable (OPAE) 4.52 USD Passenger Service and Security Charge Singapore 24.38 USD Tax description unavailable (AEAD) 20.42 USD Tax description unavailable (F6TO) 9.53 USD Tax description unavailable (TPSE) 1.36 USD Tax description unavailable (ZRAP) 2.72 USD UK Air Passenger Duty 225.11 USD UK Passenger Service Charge 18.27 USD Bermuda International Aviation Security Fee 13.28 USD Bermuda Departure Tax 52.10 USD Tax description unavailable (E6VC) 31.05 USD Bermuda Passenger Facility Charge 6.23 USD Passenger Facility Charges 13.50 USD Total 1,463.67 x 1 = 1,463.67 USD

Currently WATCHING the State of the Union address. Operative word here is WATCHING. The sound is off. Nancy Pelosi looks like she just swallowed a live goldfish. Or two.

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L. Menchen In Defense of Women (1918)