Here again with our annual roundup of the many, many deals, discounts and free meals you can get on Friday, November 11th. I usually hunt for a variety of sources to draw this from each year but received a VA email and they have done a great job of capturing every deal I could imagine….
Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: With 2021 traveling still shaky, I’ve placed some U.S. domestic and international cancelable and/or movable trips on my travel calendar. Today’s ALL HANDS focuses on my 2021 travel planning. When will travel get back to normal? That is the key question, and absolutely no one knows the answer. Still, with vaccinations…
Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: 2020 has been quite a year! This year, I flew 54,664 miles which includes one international trip and quite a few US-domestic flights, almost all for work. This is fewest miles I’ve traveled in about a decade. Today’s ALL HANDS focuses on my 2020 travel. What a year! That’s definitely the…
So what makes this an informed analysis? Most of me fellow Boarding Area bloggers know my military level, but let’s just say I am a senior leader. What many do not know is that I am a senior leader at the Army Corps of Engineers. That coupled with the fact that my daughter is a…
Apologies to my friend Albert. He sent me this to publish a couple of weeks ago and I just ran out of time given all the duty I have performed lately. Hopefully, this post has not been overcome by events. Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: My global travels will continue in 2020 albeit with…
Here is an impressive post from Albert. I wish my travel year was exciting as his. Amazing that he could display all his trips on one global picture! Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: In 2019, I flew 163,951 miles, traveled to three continents, on about eight different airlines, visiting almost 20 different countries. New…
What would be a military frequent flyer blog without detailing out all the places that you can get a discount this weekend. Most of these are for free or discounted stuff on Monday, 11 November, but several are good in the days prior to that. I have highlighted those. This year’s list comes from an…
My buddy Albert has PCS’ed back to the States causing a complete re-think of how he earns miles and points. Since this happens to a lot of military personnel. let’s see what he has to say. ALL HANDS: New Travel Strategy (PCS Edition). Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: Relocating back to the U.S. requires…
All Veterans’ Days are special, but this one commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of the War to End All Wars – which unfortunately didn’t. First called Armistice Day, it was changed to the more familiar name of Veterans’ Day. Many establishments want to recognize the selfless service and sacrifice that was made ,…
