Flight history of 2010

I have been raised in a family that believes money is best spent traveling with the people you love. Luckily they actually practice what they preach and because of this I have been the lucky benefactor of much travel over my lifetime. To give you an idea, here are my flights and some statistics regarding them from the year 2010 alone!

Flight Distances Flight Time Flights In Miles   36,399 In Kilometer   58,579 Earth Circumnavigation 1.46 x Distance to the Moon  0.152 x Distance to the Sun 0.0004 x     Hours   90:05 Days 3.8 Weeks 0.5 Months  0.13 Years 0.010     All   25 Domestic 21 Intra-Continental  0 Intercontinental 4 Other flights 0

Flight map - 2010 United States

Flight map - 2011 World

Top Ten Airports # Airport  Amount  % 1 MSP Minneapolis  10  20.0 % 2 ATL Atlanta  10  20.0 % 3 MKE Milwaukee  6  12.0 % 4 FSD Sioux Falls  3  6.0 % 5 PHX Phoenix  3  6.0 % 6 AGC Pittsburgh  2  4.0 % 7 SFO San Francisco  2  4.0 % 8 SLC Salt Lake City  2  4.0 % 9 DEN Denver  2  4.0 % 10 CDG Paris  2  4.0 %

Top Ten Airlines # Airline  Amount  % 1 AirTran 10  40.0 % 2 Delta Air Lines 8  32.0 % 3 SkyWest 2  8.0 % 4 Allegiant Air 2  8.0 % 5 Pinnacle Airlines 1  4.0 % 6 Comair 1  4.0 % 7 SkyWest Airlines 1  4.0 %

Top Ten Routes # FlightPath  Amount  % 1 MSP - MKE 2  8.0 % 2 ATL - MSP 2  8.0 % 3 FSD - IWA 1  4.0 % 4 PHX - ATL 1  4.0 % 5 MKE - STL 1  4.0 % 6 IND - MKE 1  4.0 % 7 MKE - DEN 1  4.0 % 8 MSP - ATL 1  4.0 % 9 ATL - PHX 1  4.0 % 10 AGC - CDG 1  4.0 %

Additional Data Total Airports  15 Total Airlines  7 Total Routes  23 Total Countries  3

Longest Flight (distance): 5,072 mi, 11:10 h, Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - Salt Lake City (International), 08-20-2010 Longest Flight (duration): 11:10 h, 5,072 mi, Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - Salt Lake City (International), 08-20-2010 Shortest Flight (distance):  197 mi, 0:55 h, Sioux Falls (Regional, Jo Foss Field) - Minneapolis (Wold Chamberlain Field), 07-04-2010 Shortest Flight (duration):  0:55 h, 197 mi, Sioux Falls (Regional, Jo Foss Field) - Minneapolis (Wold Chamberlain Field), 07-04-2010 Fastest Flight:  528 mi/h, 4,791 mi, 9:04 h, Atlanta (Hartsfield Jackson) - Munich (Franz Josef Strauss), 05-11-2010 Slowest Flight:  108 mi/h, 508 mi, 4:41 h, Salt Lake City (International) - Phoenix (Sky Harbor Airport), 08-20-2010 Average Flight: 1,456 mi, 3:36 h

La reine de cœur - Maurice Carême

 La reine de cœur

by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978)

au français:

Mollement accoudée

A ses vitre de lune,

La reine vous salue

d'une fleur d'amandier.

C'est la reine de cœur.

Elle peut, s'il lui plait,

Vous mener, s'il lui plait,

Vous mener en secret

Vers d'étranges demeures

Où il n'est plus de portes,

De salles ni de tours

Et où les jeune mortes

Viennent parler d'amour.

La reine vous salue;

Hâtez-vous de la suivre

Dans son châeau de givre

Aux doux vitraux de lune.

in English:

Softly leaning

on her window-panes of moon,

the queen gestures to you

with an almond flower.

She is the Queen of Hearts.

She can, if she wishes,

lead you ins ecret

into strange dwellings

where there are no more doors,

or rooms, or towers,

and where the young deat

come to talk of love.

The queen salutes you;

hasten to follow her

into her hoar-frost castle

with smooth stained-glass moon windows.

This is one of may poems by French poet Maurice Carême that he wrote for children. For a children's piece, however, I think it's an incredibly mature text. Carême paints such an incredible portrait of a cold, desolate castle where the Queen of Hearts sits. I picture the witch from the Disney's Chronicles of Narnia movies. The setting is just cold--bitter cold--yet warming. The idea that the Queen of Hearts can beckon you towards her castle and lock you away at her will. Perhaps the location to which she can lead you, "strange dwellings where there are no more doors, or rooms, or towers, and where the young dead come to talk of love" is not actually a place, but an idea. The Queen of Hearts can beckon you to her castle and lead you to heaven.

-Jerron Jorgensen