Other than getting to travel to Australia every few years, I really don’t get to fly anywhere. Melody and I drive to most of our vacations….which are very few and far between.

But in the next 6 months, I’ll become an RDU (Raleigh Durham International Airport) expert. Here’s my schedule:

April 5-7: Google Customer Summit (Mountain View, California)

Flying out of RDU in the morning on the Monday, arriving in San Francisco that afternoon (3 hour time difference). Then getting up the next morning, and spending all day at the Googleplex, talking with the Google Apps for Education team, and getting a tour of their facility. I’ll fly home that night, leaving San Francisco around 10:30pm, and arriving in Raleigh at 10am the next day. Connecting flights in Atlanta both ways will lengthen the trip a little. More on this trip later. I’m really looking forward to it. Scratch that. I’m REALLY looking forward to it.

April 17-22: DrupalCon (San Francisco, California)

Much like the Google trip, I’ll fly out on the Sunday, arriving in enough time to get to the hotel in daylight. I’ll then spend the next 3 days at DrupalCon, flying back on the red eye, and arriving back in Raleigh the next morning. Again…there’ll be a blog post about this conference when the time gets closer. I’m really looking forward to this one too…just not as much as my favorite Google

Early May: Las Vegas, Nevada

Bachelor party for my friend Thomas who lives in Seattle. We’re all converging on Vegas for a weekend, and then recovering for a few months before heading to…

September 10: Seattle, Washington

….Thomas and Natalie’s wedding. This should be a blast, and I’ll get to see another city I’ve never been before.

So….I’m going to be an RDU expert by the end of this year…maybe for one of the trips I’ll try checking in blindfolded or something, just to break up the monotony.