I kept this running log of the journey from Idaho to India. For what it is worth, some of the times listed I actually knew the time zone I was in... for others, I'm not even sure whether it was Thursday (which I know existed), Friday (which I don't think existed), or Saturday (which I think it is right now). Here goes...

0901(Mountain Time) Kiss and hug Wendy, Mallory, and Zane good-bye at the Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho
0932 (MT) Take off fifteen minutes late after having to rearrange the weight on this twin prop puddle jumper of an airplane
1024(MT) Touch down in Salt Lake City with only 46 minutes of layover
1042(MT) Find Departure screen saying flight to SFO is at D9 and will be delayed 10 minutes--yeah! I have time to go to the bathroom!
1104(MT) While waiting to board I finish reading The Millionaires, by Brad Meltzer
1113(MT) Fake sleeping while watching boarders hoping and praying the middle seat will remain empty... or will one of the three dreaded seatmates arrive? Who might they be, you ask? "Hip-Hop Homey"--the guy who never stgops moving as he listens to his music... "Texas Big Hair Lady"--the woman whose hair is so big it takes up half of your space... or, "The Seatbelt Extension Guy"--sitting in a middle seat and needing an extension is a recipe for great discomfort all around
1121(MT) Crew announces the cabin doors are now closed... and the seat is still empty... God is good!
1127(MT) Push back from SLC
1138 (Pacific Time) Enjoy two bags of Delta's finest peanuts
1243(PT) I am beginning to wonder how many lazy circles we will make out over the Pacific
1309(PT) Rough landing and hard slamming of the brakes signal our arrival at SFO. For some unknown and unexplained reason Air Traffic Control turned our 1hour 38 minute flight into 2hours 35minutes
1329(PT) Meet Dan and Drew at the Emirates ticket counter
1411(PT) Lunch... a tuna salad... quite possibly the last fresh vegetables for two weeks... except this lettuce had seen fresher days...
1504(PT) Call from home... the plumber fixed the garbage disposal... Mallory doesn't have an ear infection... Zane is taking care of our girls... and Wendy even got a nap in...
1639(PT) Welcome to Seat 34H--my home for the next 16 hours
1705(PT) Lift off from SFO... next stop Dubai... only about 14000kilometres to go
1900(MT) According to the flight map we are straight west of Boise, ID... I have made a giant triangle so far today...
2014 (Central Time) I just broke my Emirates issued headset. At least they lasted until I was done watching Slumdog Millionaire...
2027(CT) Somewhere over Saskatchewan (or central Canada if I misspelled Saska...whatever...), I enjoyed a nece dinner of beef tips and rigatoni with cheesecake and berry compote for dessert.
2243 (Eastern Time) Put on my iPod to listen to my "Michael Martin Murphey and Friends" playlist and promptly fall asleep...
0812 (Greenwich Mean Time--I have no idea what this means for where we are...) From my dazed slumber I am wakened for a tuna wrap... yummy in the tummy... back to sleep...
1733 (Iran Time--maybe??) I slept from Greenland to Tehran. Now I am awake for breakfast--a cheese omelet and chicken sausage. There is a lot of chicken sausage over here given pork's bad reputation among Arabs and Jews. Let's just say that Jimmy Dean need not worry about losing market share to the chicken sausage industry...
1831 (DT...Dubai Time??) Fill out H1N1 form to prove to Dubai authorities I am Swine Flue free... given pork's reputation over here, I can see why...
1911 (DT) Land at DXB... 26hours and 6minutes... 13034kilometres (mostly at mach 0.83)... 10 time zones (or is it 11...)
2047 (DT) Board next flight for "short" hop across to Chennai
2053(DT) Put on iPod and continue listening to same playlist. Tucked tightly in with Dan and Drew, I wonder what it means that my first song was by the Bellamy Brothers--"If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)--True! Even I can't make that up...
2215 (UT... not University of Texas... but... Unknown Time...) While flipping through channels I find an episode of Happy Days on Classic Comedy... Fonzie does not want to get his tonsils out...
0022(CT... Chennai Time) Supper (I guess... or is it lunch... or maybe even breakfast...) includes yogurt... but this is cucumber yogurt... and one spoon is enough to verify that is tastes like it sounds...
0038(CT) Just for my son, Zane, I watch the movie Cars. I fall asleep through most of it (but I still manage to say many lines on time!). When Lightning revs his engine in the tractor tipping scene I jump and get scared my out of my slumber... Drew thinks this is hysterical...
0223(CT) Customs forms and H1N1 forms must be filled out
0242(CT) Touch down in Chennai, India...

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get from Hailey, Idaho, to Chennai, India....