2008: My year in travel

This evening I decided to work out roughly how far I've travelled during 2008. Not including walking and occasional car journeys that I've not remembered, it turns out that I've travelled a total of 21126 km (13127 miles). That is quite a long way and is almost equivalent to a complete circumnavigation of Mars! Below is an illustration of my journeys broken down by form of transport.

Travel around Mars
My travel during 2008 broken down by form of transport. Mars has a radius of 3397 km and therefore roughly a circumference of 21344 km. CREDIT: Stuart
Looking at the breakdown, I'm pretty ashamed by the total distance that I've travelled by plane even if I have always attempted to use other forms of transport where possible. I wonder if I'll travel less during 2009.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Wednesday 24th Dec 2008 (01:06 GMT) | 2 Comments | Permalink

Comments: 2008: My year in travel

Stuart - thats incredibly impressive. Did you really cycle a thousand miles ? wow.

Posted by Andy Lawrence on Tuesday 06th Jan 2009 (04:30 UTC)

gravatarI cycle to work and back and that's what I got when I totalled it all up. It surprised me too!

Posted by Stuart on Tuesday 06th Jan 2009 (09:54 UTC)

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