When will the airlines learn about straight lines being the shortest distance? We are leaving on vacation and will be zigzaging all over the country.

We leave Knoxville in a northeasterly direction to Washington Dulles. From there we go to Vancouver, BC, possibly with a stop in Chicago. Then by ship to Seward, Alaska, and by bus to Anchorage. On the way home it is Anchorage to Denver to Chicago to Knoxville.

I think that is about seven legs including the ship and the bus, but it could be eight if we go to Chicago O'Hare both ways. I didn't count the car rides to and from Knoxville's airport or the taxis and vans in other cities.

So I am sitting here looking at the map and it appears that we will fly over parts of 18 states and one province.

You could say it is Atlantic to Pacific if you consider that Washington DC is in the tidewater country just a tad above sea level.

I never get enough of this stuff. Who wants to travel in a straight line, anyway?
Howard