I went on the US Airways web site to use some of my frequent flier miles on a trip to Albuquerque 3 months from now. Although their brochure says you can get round trip flights for 25,000, the web site (without explanation) asked for double that. I read the fine print about blackout dates. I [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Vacation'
Frequent Flier Games
June 18, 2008
Mammoth Cave
August 23, 2004
I arrived at the Mammoth Cave visitors center about 10 AM. I walked in with a “so now what do I do?” look and within seconds a park ranger walked up and made it plain that one of the supreme joys of his life was to help folks like me get the most out [...]
Hi from Indianapolis
August 20, 2004
It was a beautiful day in Indianapolis yesterday. This morning there’s a little rain, but that won’t be a problem visiting the 2004 Americover exposition. I’ll go over and view the stamps on cover exhibits and browse what the dealers have to sell. I’m not a particularly active stamp collector right now, but it should [...]
Vacation, wheee
August 18, 2004
Vacations are not my strong point. I don’t take many and usually they don’t do a lot for me. Part of the problem is that I don’t do much that’s interesting.
This year I’m really trying. I took son Patrick to the Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison for grad school and I’m vacationing on the way [...]