I left Honolulu at around 9:30 PM. December 31st and arrived in Vancouver at 5:00 AM, January 1st. The Air Canada pilot announced at some point that there were 5 min. until midnight in Vancouver (it was 9:55 PM Hawai’i time or more exactly Hawai’i-Aleutian standard time) and said ‘Happy New Year’. I’d expected to say…
25,000 Aeroplan Miles was the gift and I gladly chose it. A few weeks ago I received an e-mail saying that once I reach the 150,000 mile threshold I can chose from the following gifts: However, when I had to make the selection the 25,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles was the only gift available. I would have not cared much for ‘Samba…
Last year this period I was in Sydney, Australia and I took the photos from the Sydney Tower. It is interesting how the queue looked like. It started compact but then it changed the shape, I suppose because of the heat. The queue was for:
I have been travelling for more than 2 years on business and I have not had the need for an expense app but due to some changes implemented by my company in the way receipts are reimbursed I have decided to download an app for my iPhone. I looked first into Expensify . The app…
It is a 9ft high cave bear skeleton, estimated to be between 80,000 – 100,000 years old and the price is around $40,000. I saw it first time some 3 years ago and this year they still had it. I should have bought it and kept it in the living room, perhaps it would have been…
I suffer from Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD), only self-diagnosed for the time being. Take the following as evidence. I bought the sanitizer because I don’t always trust that everything in a hotel room has been cleaned thoroughly: door knobs and handles, light switches, the remote control, taps and I’m sure a number of other things I…
Coat of Arms of North Korea I read the very interesting post North Korea trip (part 1): go or no go? – Rapid Travel Chai and this reminded me of one of my hundreds of ideas: a travel agency that organizes trips to North Korea. They would have a lot of business, many people would want…
Willows Beach, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
I came across this contest after I logged on to Facebook and liked Marriott (yes, I know I am guilty, but the allure of 1,000,000 reward points was too much to resist to). And somewhere on the Marriott page it was a link to the contest. It is free to submit an idea, but (there…
I stayed at a Radisson hotel sometime toward the end of November and I received 50,000 Gold Points. The fine print somewhere said it would take 6-8 weeks to receive them after a stay and I was already stressed (yes, I know, I am hopeless) that I’d have to follow-up with them because, for some…