Curt von Badinski is an engineer of a company in San Francisco.(然而), his home is in Los Angeles, which is 770(英里) away from his workplace, so he has to take a plane work and back. Every workday morning, von Badinski gets up at 5 a.m. for the 15-minute drive to the airport. After (停放) his car, he goes straight to take the plane. After a 90-minute flight, he (着陆) at Oakland Airport and drives to his company. The(整个的) trip takes him about 3 hours.
Von Badinski pays the airline 2,300 dollars monthly so that he can fly(自由地) at any time to and from San Francisco.
Flying to work every day is not (容易的) for von Badinski because he can only sleep five hours every night, but he believes(没有什么) could be more important to him than his family. He had about several ways to solve the problem,(包括) moving his family to San Francisco, but none of them worked.
"The six hour round trip shows that I have the(能力) to have all the things I want," he explains. I am always excited to start a new day.