Former BJ staffer Brian Windhorst, who covers the Cavaliers for the Plain Dealer, will travel around the world – 30,000 miles, 17 flights and five continents in 30 days – to help friend Jon Wiles celebrate his 30th birthday (Sept. 13). They took off last weekend.
Brian and Jon, front page designer for the Washington Post who left a similar job at the PD, have been friends
since their Akron high school days. Brian is a St. Vincent-St. Mary graduate. They were Kent State journalism students together and roommates in Cleveland. Brian is a 2000 KSU grad, Jon a 2002 grad and was a Detroit Free Press intern. Jon also teaches at the University of Maryland.
Brian’s dad, Todd, like former BJ staffer Tom Moore, helps former BJ sports editor Tom Giffen with Giffen’s Roy Hobbs World Series for older baseball players in Ft. Myers, Florida.
Brian – born Jan. 29, 1978 -- was at the BJ for 12 years before joining the exodus to the PD. After Terry Pluto left the BJ for the PD, he co-authored “The Franchise: LeBron James and the Remaking of the Cleveland Cavaliers” with Brian. Brian survived a two-month 2008 bout with pneumonia that dunked him into the intensive care unit of Akron City Hospital.
The trip will include a week in Europe, a safari in South Africa, a beach resort in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and, at the end, Las Vegas to join friends and celebrate the end of Jon's 20s.
All the legs of the trip will be via the 28-airline Star Alliance.
Click on the headline to read Brian’s account of the planned trip in the Plain Dealer.
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