Merry Olde England

London certainly does not disapoint and lives up to its reputation,
including for nasty weather.  We leave Frankfurt on time, but end up
circling over London for a good 45 minutes due to fog limiting the
number of flights that can land at a time.  Visibility is pretty damned
close to zero (100 metres) and they have to do an instrument landing.
On the off chance somebody from Lufthansa ever reads this blog entry,
you might want to point out something to your pilots.  Telling the
passengers that there is no visibility and we’ll have to land on
instruments should not be followed by the phrase "which should be
interesting."  With the exception of a few oddballs out there, I think
I can speak for nearly the entire universe of air passengers and say
that we do not want "interesting" landings.  We want nice boring and
completely uninteresting landings.  Preferably with a nice stop at the
allocated length of runway.  Just a thought.

A little less than 80 days

But still around the world…

First stop is Germany, to visit a friend in Jena for a long weekend vacation.  Then to merry olde england for some meetings on rural energy.  Delhi and Bangalore are next (more meetings).  A quick stop in Cambodia (yup, you guessed it, more meetings) and on to Beijing.  From Beijing, back to Stanford for a few days to debrief and then to the beach in Mexico for a week (which will be much appreciated after four weeks on the road).  Another week at my parent’s in San Miguel de Allende to celebrate the new year and then back home to D.C.

For all the gritty details, my itinerary follows.