Today is the day! My flight leaves Lexington around 6:35pm. I will fly for 90 minutes to Chicago and arrive there at 7:05pm local time. After a 2-hour, 25-minute layover, I will take off in a Royal Jordanian flight to Amman, Jordan. That flight will take 12 hours to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It will be around 9:30pm when I take off from Chicago, and the sun will have already set. I will be flying eastward, hopefully getting some sleep. When I land in Amman, Jordan, my body will expect the time to be 9:30am the next morning after the 12-hour flight. But the local time will be 5:30pm that afternoon! After a layover in Amman, I will fly another Royal Jordanian flight to Cairo in about 90 minutes, arriving at 8:15pm local time. From taking off in Lexington to landing in Cairo, the total travel time will take 18 hours and 40 minutes, in theory.
The side photo is from 2008, shortly before flying from Beijing to San Francisco. More photos from my travels this time around will be in later posts! (Hopefully. I’m still trying to figure out formatting issues.)
Cool! Cant wait for more updates, good luck with the jet lag.
Great to hear from you, Spencer! More updates coming in a few hours!
Hey Mr. Smith. Are you coming back soon? Our class would like to get back together to play some dodgeball. It wouldn’t be the same without you. Let me know if you could and when. – Cole Hargrave
What’s up fam. – John Kelley
Hi John and Cole! It’s great to hear from you! I hope to be back in Kentucky this summer. I would love to see the gang again! Until then, I hope to keep you more in the loop about my new school!