As I recall, we made the decision to visit Luang Prabang in Laos based on the advice of a rather “interesting” Swede from our guesthouse in Siem Reap. This took the place of going to Phuket where our primary draw was…
Constructing a Race Cat Vacation Itinerary and How To Use the KVS Availability Tool
I decided to attend the Living With Lions program in South Africa. It looks super fun. Look at those adorable kittens! How to go? I looked at United and American but really wanted to use up some of my American…
This Single Credit Card Will Get You A $100 International Ticket To Almost Anywhere
Chase has recently upped the award bonus on the Ink Plus (a business credit card) to a pretty large amount – 70,000 Chase UR points. Normally the card is 50k with the $95 waived and is available online; for this offer amount…
My First Attempt At British Airways Avios Redemption
British Airways has a distance based award chart with their Avios as noted above. Quite a deal for some of these routes. Per the Great Circle Mapper, ORD to DCA is 612 miles; a round trip economy ticket could be…
US Airlines Most Profitable and Least Comfortable
So sayeth World Airline Awards. Ranking and comments from this article at Quartz. Certainly it seems like things are quite different these days than when I was flying even 5 years ago; it seemed like there were many more open…
What’s a Mileage Run? Obtaining American Airlines Executive Platinum
What’s a mileage run? It’s something crazy people do, really. The first time I read about them was on flyertalk – where there are some examples of some truly crazy runs. There are many threads like this. The purpose of…
Back to South Haven and Gingerman for Wangfest and Gridlife 2014
Recently back to South Haven for two weekend events in a row; Wangfest, one of the most sparsely attended car events I’ve seen there, and Gridlife, the most well attended event I’ve seen there. South Haven is a nice beachy…
Flight Review: TK17 Turkish Airlines B777-300ER Business Class Istanbul to Toronto
This minty lemonade… pretty tasty stuff. So this started off rough – I went to the Taksim Havatas bus location and totally got on the wrong bus to start. Part of this was being advised to go and I suppose…
Turkish Airlines Lounge at Istanbul Ataturk
So the Turkish Airlines lounge is all sorts of amazing. It’s huge and has all sorts of stuff including food, food, food. Without a lounge, I usually eat little if anything at airports. Maybe some Starbucks. Maybe some little snackies…
Tips for Visiting Istanbul
I went to Istanbul on a whim and winged my journey; something I am going to try and do less often in the future. Istanbul was perfect for it though, so much different and cool stuff to see there; I…
