Daredevil Author Will Attempt Round-the-World Trip via Commercial Airline

To promote his new book Dan Poynter’s Air Travel Handbook, author Dan Poynter is making the ultimate sacrifice of personal comfort and nutritional health: He will recreate Jules Verne’s classic novel Around the World in 80 Days. But he’ll be doing it in just two days and he’ll be traveling by commercial airline.

This week, Poynter launched a website, RTW2D, which will chart the progress of his trip. He’ll depart from LAX on May 17 after a 10:30 a.m.