Bonus Miles

Travel and Genetics don't mix

Identification of the five locations is the first step for this file. Using markers that could be identified in the images, the 5 locations could be indentified to the places below: Goethite - Mount Goldsworthy Mine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia https://www.mindat.org/photo-659435.html

E Main St, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0682441,-90.9558003,3a,75y,352.5h,78.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soWXzAxAMA3KdBAXuUJcIZA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Жібек Жолы көшесі - Almaty, Kazakhstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibek_Joly_Street

Valença, Bahia, Brazil https://www.google.com/maps/place/Valen%C3%A7a,+State+of+Bahia,[phone],+Brazil/@-13.4110815,-39.078807,10.67z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x73e44087b926d31:0xcda129b9a91d191a!8m2!3d-13.370017!4d-39.0720559!16s%2Fg%2F11bxfxyfzn

Tyler, Texas https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:zk51w492t

As hinted by the text "long flights", the local airport must be identified for each of these locations by their IATA code.

Country	State	City	IATA
Australia	Western Australia	Goldsworthy	GLY
United States	Arkansas	Walnut Ridge	ARG
Kazakhstan		Almaty	ALA
Brazil	Bahia	Valenca	VAL
United States	Texas	Tyler	TYR

Additionally, as hinted by "find evidence of mutagenic proteins", each of these airport codes map to a 3-letter Protein Code which also has a corresponding single letter Protein Code. (https://www.genscript.com/Amino_Acid_Code.html)

IATA/3 letter protein	Protein	Single Letter Protein Code
GLY	Glycine	G
ARG	Arginine	R
ALA	Alanine	A
VAL	Valine	V
TYR	Tyrosine	Y

These single letter Protein Codes reveal the final answer of GRAVY