Notification of reaching 1K status on United for 2024 & 2025….
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2023 Diamond Princess Asia Cruises – Day 26 [Kyoto, Japan to Muscat, Oman]
End of the line. Time to leave Kyoto. I took the Haruka train from Kyoto to Osaka Kansai airport to fly to Oman through Thailand.
2023 Diamond Princess Asia Cruises – Day 1 [Flight to Japan]
Flying on my [sarcasm] favorite [/sarcasm] airline to Japan.
2021 Virgin Voyages Cruise – Day 1 [Houston to Miami, Florida]
Flight to Miami and an afternoon in South Beach
2021 Boston, Massachusetts – Day 5 [Return Flight]
Return flight to Houston from Boston.
2021 Boston, Massachusetts – Day 1
Flight to Boston and the first day of the adventure. A visit to Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall before a culinary delight for dinner – a lobstah roll.
2021 Boston, Massachusetts – Day 0
Check in for my flight to Boston, Massachusetts
2020 Hawaii Trip [Day 15 – Flight to Austin via Phoenix]
Last flight from Phoenix to Austin, amazing barbecue lunch and a short drive to Houston
2020 Hawaii Trip [Day 2 – Los Angeles to Lihue (Kaua`i), Hawaii]
Arrival at my final destination, finally.
2020 Hawaii Trip [Day 1 – Houston to Lihue (Kaua`i), Hawaii – almost]
First day disaster. 3 hour mechnical delay in Dallas caused a 23 hour layover in LAX…
2020 Singapore to Hong Kong Cruise – Day 18 [Hong Kong, China to Houston]
This morning I woke up early and checked out of the hotel shortly before 6:00 AM. My flight is at 9:05 AM – so under normal circumstances I would generally be at the airport by then. I took a quick taxi to the Kowloon airport station (45 Hong Kong Dollars). The Cathay Pacific check in…
2020 Singapore to Hong Kong Cruise – Day 2 [… to Tokyo]
Today I continued on my flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo. I was able to get about 5 hours of sleep and watch 2 movies. I spent about 9 hours in the lounge. I explored a bit in the airport and made plans for my shore excursions for the cruise. My flight to Singapore boards…
2020 Singapore to Hong Kong Cruise – Day 1 [Houston to Tokyo]
Today will be a short day. My first flight departs at 0615 for Los Angeles [LAX] where I will board a flight to Japan that departs at 1030. I won’t get off that plane until after 3pm tomorrow, but it’s only about 10 hours from LAX to HND [Tokyo]. I left the house at around…
Checked in for the flight… Most of them anyways
This morning I was pleasantly surprised to receive an upgrade to business class on my flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo before checking in for the flight. Iwasn’t surprised about the upgrade – yesterday they had seven available seats in business class on the flight, just surprised it cleared before checking in. I have the…
Houston to NY…
The annual Festive season trip is under way. I was lucky enough to get round trip flights to Ithaca, NY for 29,500 miles yesterday, otherwise you’d be reading about a very long drive instead of the flights on United. I left the house at 4:50 AM. I parked at Parking Spot 2 at 5:42 AM…
Doha, Qatar to Houston, TX
This morning I left very early 0630 flight. The corniche was closed due to a sporting event, so the Uber to the airport needed to take an alternate route. My seat to London… Picked specifically at the bulkhead to avoid climbing over someone’s legs or having them climb over me. The waffle was not very…
Houston to Abu Dhabi
I am traveling to Abu Dhabi today (luckily before the British Airways industrial action which cancelled many flights).
River Cruise – Day 20 [Flight to Houston through Chicago]
Well today started out like Charlie Brown kicking a football. I took a picture of the I amsterdam statue since no one was there. I took the train and got to the airport. I checked in – was 3 hours before my flight. Now that I look at the boarding pass it was even printed…
Doha, Qatar to Geneva, Switzerland
A simple overnight flight on Qatar Airways. Tomorrow I’ll be arriving in Geneva and then driving to Lyon, France.
New York to Houston
The drive to Buffalo was uneventful. I went to Duff’s for wings before leaving…. hot, extra crispy. They were good, but not really special. I almost got 40,000 miles for getting in a little later, but I didn’t get bumped on the first flight. Small airplane to Newark. They offered a $800 voucher to be…