Alcademics

I decided to add up all the trips I took in 2012 and compare it to last year's travel, and it appears this year I was a total slacker. 

I took a mere 17 trips this year (22 last year), and flew only 90,000 miles in the air, compared with 150,000 last year. I visited only 5 foreign countries this year (not counting repeats) as opposed to 12 last year. 

I feel so lazy. 

In 2012 I visited:

• New Orleans (twice), once for Tales of the Cocktail and once for vacation
• Vancouver for Tales of the Cocktail
• Seattle for 12 bar reviews
• Las Vegas for the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers' Association
• Lafayette, LA for Tabasco
• New York for the Manhattan Cocktail Classic
• Cuba for Havana Club 
• Scotland for Laphroaig
• Marseillan for Noilly Prat vermouth
• Rio de Janiero for Diageo's World Class
• Mexico for Olmeca Altos and the Tahona Society
• France for Grey Goose Ten cocktail competition
• Portland, Oregon for Portland Cocktail Week
• San Diego to review bars
• And a mileage run trip to New York and back on one day

Still, a pretty good year in all ;