This year was my most traveled year yet. I managed to go the farthest East (Italy), West (Seattle, WA) and South (Melbourne, FL) in my life, and managed to cross three countries off my list (France, Italy, Vatican City).

May
PFN-ATL DL/ASA ATR-72 Coach (U)
ATL-SEA DL B767-300 Coach (U)
SEA-ATL DL B767-200 Coach (L)
ATL-PFN DL/ASA ATR-72 Coach (L)
ATL-CDG AF B777-200 Tempo (G)
CDG-MXP AF A319 Tempo (G)

June
FCO-ATL DL B767-300ER Coach (L)
ATL-MSP DL MD-88 Coach (U)

July
PFN-ATL DL/ASA ATR-72 Coach (K)
ATL-MLB DL/ASA CRJ-700 Coach (K)
MLB-ATL DL MD-88 Coach (Y)
ATL-PFN DL/ASA ATR-72 Coach (K)

Map of the Routes I flew.

Total Miles Flown: 16947

Trip Reports:
2005 Imagine Cup US National Finals for Software Design - PFN-ATL-SEA r/t - Delta
School Trip to Italy - Milan-Venice-Florence-Pisa-Assisi-Pompeii/Sorrento-Capri-Rome!

Best Overall Travel Experience of 2005:
Getting to spend 10 days in Italy with some of my friends on a school trip. I cant think of any better trip that I have been on....it truely was a once in a lifetime experience.

Best Airport:
Ok, maybe I am biased as the winner is my home airport: PFN. I like the fact that parking is close to the terminal, the lines are short, and I can show up about 30 minutes before my flight. ^

Worst Airport:
I would have to go with CDG as the worst airport I have encountered. First of all I transited through CDG with a group which was split up due to conflicting advice to get to our connecting terminal. Some took the bus tour of CDG, while others took some sort of train or monorail (suppossedly). Also, two people in my group had their luggage lost by Air France in CDG.

Best Hotel:
Redmond Marriott Town Center. I was originally booked at the Residence Inn across the street, when I was in Redmond to compete in the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational, but due to overbooking, we were given a room at the Marriott. Unfortunatley they wanted to only put me and my dad there for one night, but a talk to the hotel event manager got us a free stay there for the rest of the Imagine Cup.

Worst Hotel:
The Hotel Residence Florence in Florence, Italy. Ok, so this was part of a cheapo tour, so I guess I cant really say that I was going to expect much, but this place was bad. The hotel first of all wasnt near Florence, but requires a 30 minute drive from the city center on the freeway. Also it seemed to be in a commercial/light industrial area, was right next the the freeway, on approach to an airport, had garage doors over the windows, room doors that I could have punched though with little effort, a broken minibar, my bed was child sized and hard as a rock. Plus the elevator would often get stuck since the weight limit was something like four people.

Best Flight
I think Delta Flight 77 FCO-ATL was the best flight of the summer. The FAs were great, the food was good in Coach, and I had a good time talking to the person sitting next to me.

Worst Flight:
Air France Flight 307 ATL-CDG was probably the worst. The FAs were ghosts, I only saw them when they served dinner and breakfast, and when they enforced the window shades down rule. Also the food that was served was pretty bad, especially the beef tortellini and the lavatories in the rear of the plane are rather small.