Portland

This morning we find ourselves in Portland, Maine. Yesterday we met up at JFK airport after Biff got to see Joe Namath throwing a football in the terminal (video below). We then boarded our flight to Portland, and had some great views of the rocky coast as we landed. When we had this photo taken by a Jetblue employee named Mary, she began asking about our trip and was very excited to have met her first real All-You-Can-Jetters. After catching the tail end of this incredible Maine sunset, we promptly purchased some beer and spent the evening getting to know the friends of our host, Jason Olmested. In addition to his human friends, his social circle includes multiple fish, two cats and an infant hermanns tortoise, all of whom were happy to meet us. Photos of late-night homemade pizza will be up soon.



As for now, we plan to go for a morning run along the eastern seaboard, followed by an exploration of Portland and hopefully an afternoon sail. We both have confidence in our sailboat hitchhiking/sweet-talking abilities, so with any luck we will be braving the Atlantic ocean in just a few hours.

1 Day down, 29 remain. Total time spent in the sky: Three Hours, fifty one minutes.

First layover JFK

Shortly after landing and wandering the food court at JFK scoping out the options, I ran into a NY Jets press conference and ended up standing right next to Hall of Famer Joe Namath and former Running back Curtis Martin as they proceeded to throw a football back and fourth in the airport terminal. Apparently Jet Blue is now the official carrier of the New York Jets, and the players (and cheerleaders!) were there for the media spectacle.

Day 1

Today we are beginning our journey. Biff and I will be leaving from Fort Meyers and O'hare respectively, and meeting at JFK in New York, for our flight to Portland, Maine. We have all of our bags packed, cameras and computers ready, and we will hopefully have some interesting stories and photos from our travels. Expect many updates on this blog, at least every other day. Bon Voyage!

2 Days left!

We are in the final 48 hours before our travels begin. We don't have much other news, besides that our itinerary is temporarily finalized and we have lined up our stays in nearly every city. Expect this blog to become far more interesting in the near future.

Updated Map

Here is the map of our travels. 5 days until departure!

All flights booked! (yet subject to change)

Today we changed some of our flights around, and booked a few more, leaving us with a semi-official 15 city itinerary, which goes in this order:
September 8-10: Portland, ME
September 10-12: San Francisco, CA
September 12-15: Syracuse, NY
September 15-17: Boston, MA
September 17-19: Austin, TX
September 19-21: Miami, FL
September 21-23: New York, NY
September 23-25: Denver, CO
September 25-27: Richmond, VA
September 27-29: Chicago, IL
September 29-October 1: Washington, DC
October 1-3: San Diego, CA
October 3-5: Scott(Biff) will be doing Syracuse pt. 2 and Austin will be in Manchester, NH. This will be our only time apart on the entire journey.)
October 5-7: Seattle, WA
October 7: Las Vegas, NV
October 8: HOME!

Any locations and dates may change at anytime, but we have seats reserved on each of the flights listed above. All for $599. We may change them around for no reason besides that we have the all-you-can-jet pass,so we can. We will have an updated map on the site by tomorrow, and aside from that our only remaining task is to figure out what to bring with us.

This is a map of our first 12 cities, as they are currently planned. We will likely make changes later, but we have flights booked for each of these cities. Austin put in his two weeks notice, so as of September 8th we will be two unemployed recent college graduates avoiding and ignoring a recession by living in airports.