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ALL HANDS:  2021 Travel Planning

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…

A Winter Sun Weekend in Santa Barbara – Staying at the Fess Parker

With Santa Barbara as the destination, the next decision was where to stay?  A good friend recommended the Fess Parker Hotel.  My first reaction to this was “Fess Parker, the star of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone from my childhood?”  Yep and if you don’t know what I am talking about go here.  The photo…

Hotel Review: Doubletree Napa Valley – American Canyon

Catching up after being TDY for 3 of the last 4 weeks.  This hotel review is part of the Sonoma Valley Wine Tasting I wrote about previously.  This Napa Valley Doubletree is on the main highway connecting both Napa and Sonoma Valleys to the North Bay area of San Francisco.  The location serves well for…

Check out Pointimize, a new hotel and flight search tool, plus some free codes!

(from Andy) As you know, I’m all about hotel and airline miles & points. As fun as accumulating these points is though, what is more fun obviously it redeeming those points for free travel! It can be a huge hassle, though, sifting through at least three different search programs, for the three different alliances, and…