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JOHNNY JET'S Q & A
With Travel Storyteller And Author ~ Tom Bodett

PROFILE

Tom's credits include numerous books, audio publications, and radio broadcasts. He continues to lend his voice and creativity to a wide range of productions and his work has been heard on public radio's Loose Leaf Book Companyh, in Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Saturday Night Live, National Geographic Explorer, and he continues as the spokesperson for Motel 6, now in its 15th year and named as one of the Best Advertising Campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age magazine. Bodett's most recent book, Williwaw, is an Alaska adventure story for readers age 10 and up.

Bodett, now a fair-weather Alaskan, lives with his wife and son in the Seattle area of the Pacific Northwest and spends summers at his cabin across the bay from Homer, Alaska.

TOM'S ANSWERS

HOW OFTEN DO YOU FLY?
I take ten or twenty trips a year -- short and long: Alaska often, Europe sometimes, everywhere else mostly.
IN A YEAR HOW MANY MILES/POINTS DO YOU EARN?
You can earn miles?
WHAT CLASS OF SERVICE DO YOU MOSTLY FLY IN?
Low
FAVORITE AIRLINE?
Alaska
FAVORITE AIRCRAFT?
The ones that don't fall apart.
FAVORITE HOTEL?
Umm, let me think...Oh yeah - Motel 6
FAVORITE HOTEL AMENITY?
Soap
FAVORITE AIRPORT?
Homer, Alaska. Everybody knows your name there. Well, my name.
FAVORITE AIRPORT TO PASS TIME IN?
Time does not pass in airports.
FAVORITE CITY?
Seattle
FAVORITE RESTAURANT?
The Metropolitan Grill, Seattle
Gramercy Tavern, NYC
AISLE OR WINDOW?
Aisle, please.
ETICKET OR PAPER?
Doesn't matter.
TRAVEL AGENT OR ONLINE?
Both
FAVORITE TRAVEL WEBSITE?
I'm not sure I know any. I always check the weather where I'm going at the NYTimes.com.
FAVORITE TRAVEL COMPANION?
My wife and my son.
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A TROPICAL ISLAND, WHAT THREE ITEMS WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE WITH YOU? 1) A chart. 2) A GPS. 3) A forty-two foot catamaran and crew. I could never win on "Survivor". I would spend all my time looking for ways to leave.
BEST TRAVEL TIP:
Before boarding your plane, look at your flight number and see if you can imagine it in a newspaper headline, or if it seems to naturally complete the phrase, "Tragic flight ______." It can fill the dullest legs of your journey with a sense of danger and adventure.
Also, remember it is illegal to spit on the sidewalks in New York City. Report all violators. Watch out for dog poop in Paris.