Gregory Todd Williams

As 2006 draws to a close, here’s a summary of the data I keep on travel, music, and beer.

Travel

I did a lot of traveling this year, visiting England, Montenegro, and Japan, and flying through 13 airports:

• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI)
• Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD)
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
• Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW)
• Dubrovnik (DBV)
• General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (BOS)
• Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
• Kansai International (KIX)
• London Gatwick International Airport (LGW)
• London Heathrow International Airport (LHR)
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
• Memphis International Airport (MEM)
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)

On 28 flights, I travelled 52,052 miles (with carbon offsets for 100,000 miles purchased from Terrapass).

Beer

I tried 281 unique brews this year from 153 different breweries (compared with 168 from 86 in 2004).

My favorite beers tried this year were:

• Boston Beer Company’s Utopias (a competitor for the title of world’s strongest beer)
• Pizza Port’s Hop 15 2XIPA (exceptionally hoppy and delicious)
• Otter Creek’s Vermont Lager (crisp)
• Magic Hat’s Single Chair (a Magic Hat brew only available at the brewery and Vermont ski slopes)
• Wagner Valley’s Maple Porter (sweet maple taste)
• Youngs Christmas Pudding Ale (like the name says, incredible taste of a Christmas pudding)
• Stone’s 03.03.03 Vertical Epic Ale (exceptional dark strong ale)

Music

Last.fm tells me that the 10 bands I listened to the most this year were:

1. Yellowcard
2. The Beautiful South
3. Dropkick Murphys
4. blink-182
5. Rancid
6. Johnny Cash
7. Radiohead
8. The Postal Service
9. Green Day
10. Sublime

The individual track charts were strongly correlated with the samo-fools compilation, as they are every year. Through repetition of listening to nail down track ordering, these tracks always get far more listens than anything else.