How to (almost) get denied entry into Bermuda
To paraphrase the esteemed Dean Vermer, Unshaven, untucked and ignorant is no way to go through immigration, son. This is the lesson I learned on...
Trip Reports
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Visiting – and Flying – with Lufthansa’s Airline Training Center
With as much flying as I’ve done people often ask me why I haven’t yet become a pilot. I can think of two reasons. First,...
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Pillow fights are more fun at 36,000 feet!
I don’t know who started it or why. But someone did, so as we started our descent into Paine Field on Friday a full-fledged pillow...
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My visit inside the 787 Dreamliner ZA003
When I saw the original itinerary for today’s festivities at StarMegaDo I thought that landing at Paine Field in Everett, Washington was going to be...
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Shower, breakfast and a beer at the Lufthansa Welcome Lounge
As we boarded the flight out of JFK last night we were treated to a bit of good and bad news. The flight time would...
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An award ticket that should never have been
A few months ago I was ecstatic after securing an award ticket to New Zealand for this coming December. It wasn’t just that I got...
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Rain and an IDB* in Palm Springs
Maybe it was the sheer exhaustion from a month of non-stop travel and yet another pre-sunrise flight catching up with me. Maybe it was that...
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Panama without a passport
I’m a pretty big fan of visiting Panama. Each of my previous three visits to the country has been spectacular. Still, the 5 hour flight...
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Party in the forward galley
Every now and then there are fares that attract swarms of folks out looking for miles. When a $140 round-trip transcon comes along, for example,...
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AYCJ Day 23: The exhaustion is starting to kick in
The effects of the AYCJ experience on the human body can be debilitating. Three weeks in – and I’m actually being somewhat conservative in my...