The Last Great Adventure (pt.1)
It’s hard to fathom that in 5 days Nolin will be turning two years old. As exciting as this milestone is, it is going to throw a severe wrench into our travel habits.
Since children under two are able to fly for free as a lap baby, it has made picking up and going somewhere a pretty easy decision. That will all change now as road trips become the more economical option (and I have to admit that a lot more thought will have to go into a 13 and 18 hour car ride up North versus an easy 2 hour flight). We also realized that although he is not even 30 lbs (we will find out the official weight on Monday), he has already left quite the carbon footprint.
In Nolin’s 707 short days on this planet he has already amassed over 38,860 air miles and over 3,200 road miles on trips. When I added it all up, I began to think that there may be some truth to the fact that both Jenn & I’s parents think we are crazy. Nolin’s travels equates to approximately 7.75 metric tons of CO2. This means that it will take approximately 30 years and 7 trees (or possibly 1 year and 210 trees) to reverse the impact that Nolin has made in a such a short period of time…It looks like Pap Pap & I are going to have a lot of digging to do. Read more…
