We would only be in Maui for two and a half days so we didn’t really plan a lot. Plus, we had done our really adventurous Maui adventure of circling the whole island (and taking the Road to Hana twice – don’t ask!) about four years ago with our daughter. So we were much more in the…
Sorry for the break in the story. Work and shoveling snow got in the way. Anyway, back to our tale of going D.C. to Maui for a long weekend mileage run on Alaska. I got a deal on the Marriott at Wailea and I’ll explain how the hotel was and how I scored that deal….
OK, I’m not going to lie. Knowing you are going to fly for the next 20 hours is a lot easier when you know ahead of time that you have been upgraded to First for the three legs awaiting you. Another nice thing is that when you fly First Class on a long flight you…
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…
On my recent trip to Djibouti, I traveled through Istanbul both ways on Turkish Airlines. Being a Star Alliance Gold, I had free access to the Turkish Airlines Lounge. Now I had to literally with through the entire airport to reach it, including the duty free shops, but I kind of think this was by…
We all know the military sends us literally to the ends of the Earth. One of these ends is the country of Djibouti. My command has about 100 troops deployed there at any given time. Their mission is to stabilize the 11 countries in East Africa as part of CJTF-HOA (Horn of Africa). I finally…
So writing about toilets is probably the last thing that I thought I would do when I started this blog. Nonetheless, I can’t pass this opportunity by after writing my review of the hotel yesterday. By my observation, about 80% of the hotel guests are Japanese, so this toilet is probably no big deal to…
The wife and I are on another Mileage Run vacation to Honolulu. I had two free nights from the Hyatt VISA Signature sign-up bonus that were set to expire this month. Combined with a strong desire on my wife’s part to make Alaska MVP Gold75K again, I came up with a few days in Waikiki…
So after yesterday’s post, we continued on to the beach communities in Orange County. I have to admit that I’m a lot less knowledgeable about Orange County as , frankly, there was never much of a reason to venture down that far when I lived in L.A. I was really surprised at what we ran…
If I actually have to explain that the PCH stands for Pacific Coast Highway, you may not be cool enough for this trip. Either that or you are a hopeless East Coaster! Growing up in L.A. certainly colors my perceptions, but at least I am not going to go into a bunch of surfer terms…
