And finally, the link...

http://picasaweb.google.com/NRChallenge/2009NRCFlyBabyFly#
Again, many thanks indeed!!

THANK YOU!

To our dear supporters... your encouragement and conscientious donations to United Way, made this year's Delta Airlines employees' sponsored charity event... now in its second year... fun and successful yet again.

We hope you enjoyed following us as well... as we stood by for flights to destinations we otherwise would not have flown to... not yet anyway... considering the "travel bugs" that we in the industry are.

Again, thank you... until next year!

(A link to this year's campaign team entries will soon be posted)

Mitad del Mundo

Being able to stand on both sides of the earth's hemispheres...

Leonardo offers the experience as quite an "extra-terrestrial awareness"...

Hopping on to Down Under...

Ben "hangs out" Aussie style...

Meanwhile, in Buenos Aires...

"Foodie" Leonardo starts in front of Casa Rosada...

in search of the city's best "carne asada"...

Spotted in Taipei...

Ben in a most "serious and focused" mood...

Ben's out over the Pacific...

... then down to cross the hemisphere divide next. Some "flight lag' to surely ensue! Let's hope he'll still remembers his "passwords" upon return:)...

After servicing a flight...

...Elham squeezes in time to "stand-out" in Amsterdam!!

Then mere hours later...

.. Ben raises Parisian eyebrows when he ponders on "Where to next?"

New York is not only known...

... for its city's finest...

... but also for its ways in freeing up individual inhibitions:))

Friends, Romans, countrymen, Delta employees...

Mark and Ben flew across the continental skies... so your

charitable selves may become the United Way donors we are campaigning for...

Dateline Budapest...

.. time "wheels" Leonardo over...

In Venice...

.. it was time to float...

... after a number of bridges and endless turns around narrow cobbled streets

.

Pisa finds Ben and Leonardo lodging in a convent...

... at least that was what the Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda once was:))

Then, the duo's attempt to "straighten out" a tower...

"The 'fest' doesn't wait for October"... suggested Mark

... so Ben heeds... heads for Munich and poses with "Herr Nice Pants"...

Tarak reports ...

From across the Pacific... details soon!

Up next, Euro romp...

Mark, Elham, Ben and Leonardo... on staggered "Old World" departures...

Ah, flight deee-lays...

Yesterday, Ben took a flight to Minneapolis instead... to have a cherry of a time.

Memphis will have to wait for now...

Ben's on the fly...

Chicago today, Memphis tomorrow...

Visits Wrigley Field...

Then heads to the "windy city" original...

The "ever-restless" Mark ...

...squats at a patch

... then up in the air he goes.

Meanwhile, Leonardo finds himself in a land "Pharaoh-way"...

First

attempt...

perhaps a lttle too

large of a mostly German

speaking group to give instructions to...

on the idea of trying to form a "human pyramid"...

Next,

a rather valiant effort

from quite a gregarious group,

only for a camel to disrupt the scheme.

Ah,

finally... a

determined bunch

indeed, each taking a turn

on being "top of the pyramid"!

Ben in PG-Rated shorts...

Where else can anyone be more aptly attired than in Bemuda!

Boston beacons Ben...

... to a plate of seafood delights at Quincy Market...

... then discovers horsing around :-))

(Perhaps he's thinking... hmmm, why not Carousel Music around bag carousels. It likely could ease up the wait...)

The hunt begins...

September 4 is when the 2009 campaign officially begins... photos, points, miles and charitable contributions. It's all in the name of travel, fun and most of all... good-heartedness. Best of luck, indeed!