So what could be better than planning a mileage run to somewhere warm over the MLK weekend? The first quarter of the year is always the best time for low airfare and hotels. I also find that going for status on an airline is a lot easier if you get a bunch of miles early…
I lived in Alaska for seven years and never saw anything like this! Hope you caught my post on the storm earlier this morning. The snow just doesn’t stop. They are saying it will keep going to 10pm and another 3.3″ for the Arlington area. Here are some more photos to show the incredible snowfall….
I thought everyone might like to see the snow levels at our townhouse in Arlington, VA. Snow started about 2pm yesterday and is still coming down. Winds about 40 mph. Supposed to stop earlier than planned at 10am this morning. We were supposed to get 20-30″, I am guessing it was about 24″. The last…
As I posted a few months ago, the ILPP is designed to have DTS show you all hotel choices including Government lodging and private hotels. This has always been a downfall of DTS as there was lodging on-post, but it would never display so most resorted to following instructions and booking off-post for lodging even…
I had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo for 3 days for funded Temporary Duty, to complete my Emergency Medicine Board Exam. It’s always been on my travel bucket list to stay in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, so I wanted to check and see if I could. It is the number 4 out of 747…
The 2nd Hotel my family and I stayed in during our first two weeks on Okinawa was the Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort, located in the central part of of the island, near both American Village and Camp Foster. (See my first stay in Okinawa here) Although I wasn’t too keen on staying near American village…
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday period and some well-deserved time off. Most frequent flyers know New Years as the depressing time when all of their mileage and points counters reset to zero. A few programs, such as Delta and Marriott, allow you to carry over excess EQM and…
We’ve written before about the Hero Miles Program and Fisher House and their cause to help our wounded warriors and their families. These mileage donations go to pay for transporting the families to visit their loved ones which they are in hospitals or Warrior Transition Units (WTU). The Fisher Houses provide a place to stay…
Scott & company at Veterans Advantage are continually looking for new deals and discounts they can arrange for Veterans Advantage members. If you are not familiar with Veterans Advantage, you can find my previous reviews here and here. This latest deal is a 10% discount at this theme park for vacation packages which include a…
I apologize for being so late with these upcoming posts, I’ve been quite busy since PCSing here to Okinawa from Philadelphia. Unfortunately because of incompetence, I was forced to stay in the awful BOQ here on Camp Butler for three weeks while my family waited for the right paperwork to come through. Thankfully though, when…
