• availability of avgas fuel at each destination,
• the effects of updated winds aloft forecasts on potential safe ranges for the fully fueled airplane,
• the ability to obtain formal approvals for overflights and landings from local governments (e.g., these became unavailable for American registered aircraft to cross the Middle East following cruise missile attacks by the US on Afghanistan and Sudan),
• consideration of US State Department military security briefings regarding relative risks of flying to certain destinations and via certain routes (e.g., Sri Lanka was not overflown or used as a destination due to threats of ground-to-air Stinger missile attacks by insurgents in that country, which in fact led to the downing of a civilian aircraft by the rebels soon afterward), and, of course,
• since this was a vacation trip, the attractiveness of any potential destination as a pleasure stop was a paramount consideration!

Dates shown below are in local times for the departures from each airport. Many flights were long enough to involve a takeoff on one day and a landing on the next.

Flight times shown were as indicated on the airplane's Hobbs meter, which displays the total clock time between engine start and engine shutdown. These times thus include engine warm-up, taxi, engine and instrument testing runs, and post landing taxiing times, in addition to actual time in the air. To convert these times for an estimation of actual time in the air, approximately 15 - 20 minutes should be subtracted per leg flown.

Distances are given in great circle, point to point calculations from each departure airport to each destination airport. Actual flights were typically made along longer, doglegged routes, so the distances shown below are thus conservative estimates. All distances are shown in statute miles.

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Frederick, MD - Memphis, TN
30 August 98	764 miles	5.1 hours
Memphis, TN - Amarillo, TX
31 August 98	666 miles	4.4 hours
Amarillo, TX - Las Vegas, NV
31 August 98	770 miles	6.0 hours
Las Vegas, NV - Hayward, CA
1 September 98	405 miles	3.7 hours
Hayward, CA - Oakland, CA
4 September 98	7 miles	0.8 hours
Oakland, CA - Hilo, HI
5 September 98	2,355 miles	14.7 hours
Hilo, HI - Kona, HI
9 September 98	67 miles	1.1 hours
Kona, HI - Apia, Western Samoa (the longest single leg of the trip)
10 September 98	2,590 miles	15.9 hours
Apia, Western Samoa - Pago Pago, American Samoa
14 September 98	95 miles	1.4 hours
Pago Pago, American Samoa - Nadi, Fiji Islands
14 September 98	832 miles	6.2 hours
Nadi, Fiji Islands - Brisbane, Australia (Brisbane International Airport)
17 September 98	1,707 miles	10.8 hours
Brisbane, Australia (Intn'l Arpt) - Brisbane Australia (Archerfield Airport)
18 September 98	15 miles	0.7 hours
Brisbane, Australia (Archerfield Arpt) - Mt. Isa, Australia
21 September 98	988 miles	6.7 hours
Mt. Isa, Australia - Darwin, Australia
21 September 98	817 miles	5.4 hours
Darwin, Australia - Singapore
25 September 98	2,102 miles	13.1 hours
Singapore - Johor Bahru, Malaysia
30 September 98	21 miles	0.7 hours
Johor Bahru, Malaysia - Chennai (Madras), India
1 October 98	1,812 miles	13.3 hours
Chennai (Madras), India - Trivandrum, India
3 October 98	387 miles	3.1 hours
Trivandrum, India - Seychelles, Seychelles Islands
3 October 98	1,755 miles	12.4 hours
Seychelles, Seychelles Islands - Harare, Zimbabwe
7 October 98	1,912 miles	11.9 hours
Harare, Zimbabwe - Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
10 October 98	277 miles	2.3 hours
Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe - Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
12 October 98	86 miles	0.9 hours
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe - Windhoek, Namibia (Windhoek International Airport)
13 October 98	630 miles	4.2 hours
Windhoek, Namibia (Intn'l Arpt) - Windhoek, Namibia (Eros Airport)
14 October 98	29 miles	0.8 hours
Windhoek, Namibia (Eros Arpt) - Walvis Bay, Namibia
15 October 98	162 miles	1.5 hours
Walvis Bay, Namibia - Libreville, Gabon
16 October 98	1,679 miles	10.8 hours
Libreville, Gabon - Sao Tome
17 October 98	189 miles	1.6 hours
Sao Tome - Abidjan, Ivory Coast
18 October 98	818 miles	5.1 hours
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Sal, Cape Verde Islands
20 October 98	1,533 miles	10.2 hours
Sal, Cape Verde Islands - Bridgetown, Barbados
22 October 98	2,482 miles	14.4 hours
Bridgetown, Barbados - San Juan, Puerto Rico
25 October 98	578 miles	4.1 hours
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Frederick, MD
26 October 98	1,622 miles	11.2 hours

Trip grand totals:
30,152 statute miles
204.5 Hobbs hours