{"id":2113,"date":"2009-05-06T21:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2009-05-05T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:26:41","slug":"travel-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/travel-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facts from the longest business trip of my life<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of days on the road this trip: 20<\/li>\n<li>Number of seperate projects worked on: 5<\/li>\n<li>Total number of people hosted: 835<\/li>\n<li>Customs officials spoken to: 4<\/li>\n<li>Number of those officials who wished me a good flight: 1<\/li>\n<li>Number who welcomed me to their country: 3<\/li>\n<li>Number who have said &#8220;Welcome back to the United States, sir&#8221; to me in the past ten years: 0<\/li>\n<li>Number who did on Sunday: 2<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft flown on: 12<\/li>\n<li>Airports landed at: 8<\/li>\n<li>Number of these I visited on more than one separate occasion: 3<\/li>\n<li>Number of Kazakh pickerels eaten in Manitoba: 1<\/li>\n<li>Estimated distance travelled in kilometers by that fish: 8771<\/li>\n<li>Distance between my plate and the Red River, where pickerel can be found, in meters: 200<\/li>\n<li>Colleagues I collaborated with: 26<\/li>\n<li>Gray whales seen: 5<\/li>\n<li>Porpoises seen: 1<\/li>\n<li>Minutes it took to fly over the flood waters south of Winnipeg: 10<\/li>\n<li>Number of times pulled over for running a red light: 1<\/li>\n<li>Number of tickets received: 0<\/li>\n<li>Hours I played a talking drum and got paid for it: 2<\/li>\n<li>Number of passengers who snarked rudely at an Air Canada flight attendant when the captain of the plane was an hour late due to HIS flight being delayed: 7<\/li>\n<li>Minutes by which the delay was reduced thanks to these interventions: 0<\/li>\n<li>Approximate number of rock balancing sculptures set up by a group of us on the Pembroke, Ontario riverfront: 30.<\/li>\n<li>Number of local senior citizens who said they were going to go home and try that: 3<\/li>\n<li>Age, in years, of Highland Park Orkney whiskey served to me by Allistair Hain: 25<\/li>\n<li>Minutes it took me to drink it: 30<\/li>\n<li>Number of juggling balls I left home with: 7<\/li>\n<li>Number I returned home with: 1<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous languages heard spoken: 4<\/li>\n<li>Number of these I understood enough to talk to the Elder about it: 1<\/li>\n<li>Different guitars played: 3<\/li>\n<li>People spotted wcearing paper face masks during a three hour wait in San Francisco: 7<\/li>\n<li>Number of poems I wrote and read out as part of my professional duties: 2<\/li>\n<li>Number of pieces of olive and sundried tomato pesto stuffed calamari that come served on a roasted cauliflower and fennel salad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raudz.com\/RauDZ\/RauDZ%C2%A9.html\">RauDZ<\/a> in Kelowna: 6<\/li>\n<li>Number of beds slept in: 9<\/li>\n<li>Percent of annual rainfall that fell in Hoopa, CA during the two days I was there: 4<\/li>\n<li>Number of elk heads on the walls at Cinnebar Joe&#8217;s in Willow Creek, CA: 7<\/li>\n<li>Number of hockey sticks on the walls: 1<\/li>\n<li>Number of times my credit card was returned to me by a cab driver who drove 20 minutes out of his way to do so: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts from the longest business trip of my life Number of days on the road this trip: 20 Number of seperate projects worked on: 5 Total number of people hosted: 835 Customs officials spoken to: 4 Number of those officials who wished me a good flight: 1 Number who welcomed me to their country: 3 Number who have said &#8220;Welcome back to the United States, sir&#8221; 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