Through the magic of the Internets you can follow along as I traverse the planet. I’ll be on Continental Flight 89 on the way over and Continental Flight 88 on the way back.
I leave Newark at 12:15 PM tomorrow and arrive at Beijing at 3PM Friday (Beijing time). I leave Beijing at 4PM (Beijing time) Sunday, March 11th and arrive at Newark 5:40 PM the same day (Wow, that’s a heck of a jet stream, huh. 🙂 )
From FlightAware plots it seems I’ll be going right by the north pole. Another first!
I saw this on slashdot and thought that you might find it amusing: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000BB3C8-B910-15DC-9E5E83027AF10110