All You Can Jet: Travel Junkies on Everlater

JetBlue’s All You Can Jet passes are not designed for people who fear airport security, turbulence, or angry flight attendants. They are not designed for those who would rather get to know just one or two places really well. They are not designed for the weak.

All You Can Jet is designed for the traveler who thinks that red-eyes are a great chance for a good night’s sleep, that 12 hours is plenty of time to get to know what a city is like, and that the person with the most destinations wins. These are the folks who believe that they really can visit every major metropolis and most of the other interesting parts of the world before they die - they’re already halfway through the list and they’re not even 40 years old yet (maybe close, but who’s counting?) These are the true travel junkies, and these are their stories.

For Andrew Hyde, traveling all over the country with All You Can Jet is just the beginning. After that he’s going to South America, Africa, India, Nepal, SE Asia, China, Australia and New Zealand - or at least that’s the general idea. Some of you might want to point out that he’s skipping Europe entirely, but what you would have failed to recognize is that Andrew had probably already seen everything in Europe, twice, by the time he was 13.

Although in contrast to Andrew, Ben Hughes is simply sticking to the US, he has taken such a systematic approach to his itinerary that he appears to be at least as serious about travel as Andrew is. “To help pack in as much travel as possible I first collected an inventory of JetBlue routes to the west coast and back through JFK and Boston - to my knowledge JetBlue doesn’t have a published recent timetable. From there I optimized the trip based on several factors:

* Maximum red-eye flights - it’s a free night’s sleep!
* Arrange for 2 day stays over the two days I can’t fly: Friday and Sunday.
* Stay more than one day in: Seattle, New York, Boston, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
* Arrive in west coast cities as early as possible for a full day’s visit.
* If at all possible connect through JFK over Boston since there is wifi and I prefer T5 over Boston’s crappy Logan airport.
* I’m moving to San Diego in November so would like at least some time there to look at apartments, etc.

With these optimizations in mind I’ve come up with the following (tentative) itinerary:

To get an idea of what these trips will look like once these intrepid travelers actually complete the journey, check out Ryan Wanger’s All You Can Jet trip from last year, which received thousands of views from people interested in finding out just how exhausted he was after starting in Colorado and then jetting back and forth across the country to different cities on both coasts.

Who will jet more this year than Ryan did last year? Check out some of the other cool 2010 All You Can Jet trips on Everlater here, and here, and also here, here, and here.

Are you doing an All You Can Jet trip too? Travel blog your trip on Everlater, share it in the comments here on the blog, and post it to your friends on Facebook!