Fly Me To The Moon

I love Tony Bennett.  He's one of my Italiano sweethearts; further proof that I was a mobster in a past life.  And his renderings of Fly Me are among my faves.  But this post is not about T the B, or the mob or antipasti.  It's about long haul flights and tree planting.

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I'm going from Glasgow to Delhi (via Dubai) in early February, making the same trip in reverse a month later.  How come?  

Well, I was on pilgrimage in India two years ago when my very good friend Padmolka had a serious spinal injury in Vaisali.  We'd only been in India for seven days.  Some of us from the group abandoned the pilgrimage itinerary to look after her, and (eventually) get her to hospital.  After that there was a week in Delhi trying to get her flown back to Glasgow.  Tarasiddhi and I were lucky enough to rejoin the pilgrimage two or three days before coming home.  So two years on I'm going to attempt to visit Nalanda, Vulture's Peak, Varanasi and Sarnath.  These four are the sites that I resolved to come back for when Tarasiddhi and I (happily) decided to stay with Padmolka.  So I'm combining this resolve with attending the Western Buddhist Order's International Convention in Bodhgaya.

So for those reasons I'm choosing to fly again,  quite a looooooong way.  And of course, if it's a long way there it's a long way back too.

So as I mentioned in the above linked page, I'm wanting to plant some trees in Scotland to address the impact of this trip. I suppose I could plant them to the soundtrack of T the B singing Fly Me, and then go for a plate of gnocchi and pesto with a nice glass of chianti, just to complete the circle.

I wonder what Tony would do?