Lynn Sweet of the Sun Times is posting her invoices online from the Obama World Tour. An excerpt:

CHICAGO—The first invoice is in for the Obama overseas trip, $7,930.45 for airfare, and that’s not counting Friday flights from Berlin to Paris to London. Also still to come are bills for food, buses, file centers, internet, hotels, baggage transfers, etc. Air Charter Team Air Charter Team Offsets Carbon So You Fly Green 10015 N.W. Ambassador Drive, Suite 202 Kansas City, MO 64153 RECEIPT Date: 7/28/2008 Invoice # OFP45804 Bill To: lynn sweet (for Lynn Sweet) 1206 National Press Building Washington, DC 20045 DESCRIPTION AMOUNT Obama For President Press Billing – Invoice: OFP45804 Jul 20 2008 Flight: MDW – EINN $3107.81 (midway airport/chicago-shannon/don’t know if this also covers shannon-amman flight.) Jul 22 2008 Flight: AMM – TLV $286.20 (amman- tel aviv) Jul 24 2008 Flight: TLV – TXL $1414.33 (tel aviv-berlin) Jul 26 2008 Flight: LHR – MDW $3122.11 (london-midway airport/chicago) Invoice Total: $7,930.45

Nobody said covering a messiah was going to be cheap.