From SFO to Krakow’s John Paul II Airport, according to my GPS (which I left on the entire flight), we logged almost 6,000 miles of flying.
I uploaded this flight to Strava (a website for sharing bike rides recorded by GPS), but for some reason, Strava didn’t think we had biked the distance, and didn’t process it (Strava wouldn’t believe we were biking at 500 miles an hour).
We were met at the airport by Iwo, who we met via the warm showers website, at eleven thirty at night. He led us, by bike, about four kilometers to his house.
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Tarrapass estimates that by flying, we emitted, combined, about 5,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. By biking from the airport instead of driving, I estimated that we saved about one to two pounds. (Here’s the blog entry on buying offsets.)
[…] On the flights to Eastern Europe–SFO to Munich, and Munich to Krakow–the bikes traveled without problem. They charged us the bike fee, $150 per bike, as we expected. We arrived at the Krakow Airport at 11:00pm with the bikes already assembled, and a new friend from warm showers met us and we biked to his house. […]