Assuming you meant 64.22.124.165, I just pinged your IP address from my server in Norway. With 200 packets, I experienced 0% packet loss.
Maybe something's going on somewhere on the route from you to your Linode?
Btw, here's my traceroute for comparison:
Code:
traceroute to mcrites.org (64.22.124.165), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets
1 213.184.199.1 (213.184.199.1) 4.783 ms 4.500 ms 3.453 ms
2 ge1_2.core-mimer.mimer.net (213.184.212.237) 3.459 ms 4.719 ms 19.080 ms
3 ch1.core-holen.mimer.net (83.243.156.2) 3.474 ms 4.935 ms 3.471 ms
4 * * 193.28.236.189 (193.28.236.189) 17.799 ms
5 193.28.236.213 (193.28.236.213) 18.457 ms 29.447 ms 17.645 ms
6 ge-5-0-0.ar1.OSL1.gblx.net (64.213.33.173) 17.269 ms 27.619 ms 29.965 ms
7 ge-1-1-10G.ar1.ATL2.gblx.net (67.17.108.1) 131.392 ms 141.742 ms 130.626 ms
8 64.209.99.62 (64.209.99.62) 134.517 ms 134.598 ms 147.414 ms
9 l3-atl-18.gnax.net (209.51.131.74) 127.894 ms 127.461 ms 128.097 ms
10 mcrites.org (64.22.124.165) 128.224 ms 127.708 ms 127.868 ms