Up in the Air - Movie Review

"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin Disraeli.

The entire reason I starting writing this blog was to tell my friends and family about some of my travels in the world of finance. Perpetual road travel in upwards of 200 days a year. Restaurants, hotels, the Denver International Airport, flight delays, the Hertz rental counter, airport screening, no social life outside the fraternity of financial wholesalers, you name it and I've tried to share a story or two of what it's like to run around the several States.

Well, Up in the Air with George Clooney is a not-to-be-missed flick. The first part of the film was laugh-out-loud funny for me. Swiping the frequent flier card through the automated check-in kiosk, the arrangement of clothing into one carry on bag, the acquisition of "Points", and knowing how to get from point A to B to C smoothly is simply a set a skills one needs to survive.

The later half of the movie was little less funny. I'm not in the habit of spoiling anything for anyone, but the film does have a more serious tone.

I do hope that in the last scene (the one pictured above) that he took a trip somewhere in the world that didn't involve work. I know I made that choice several months ago and I would make the same choice again. And again.