Month: December 2019
Hawaii 2019 Installment 2
It’s the greatest feeling in the world when that wide body Airbus A330 sets down on the runway especially at HNL Hawaii. It was an uneventful six hour flight and the adrenalin was high so we were ready to get on with our vacation/research. It’s plain to see that HNLRead More …
The Travels That I’ve Been Blessed With
Until recently I haven’t given much thought to the number of places that I have been in my lifetime. I just enjoyed making the plans, buying the tickets (Probably why I’M in debt), packing my bag, and going, going, gone. But this morning I sat down and made a list.Read More …
London at Christmas 2016 Installment 1 Getting There
It was purely chance and coincidence that Elizabeth and I ended up in London on Christmas day 2016. Of course much of life, at least my own, is chance and coincidence, “thin threads,” I like to call them. I received an Email from our favorite airline, okay, maybe not mostRead More …
Hawaii 2019 Installment 1
We first visited Hawaii in spring of 2001while on a thirty-three day cruise from Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles (more yet to come). Since then we have returned almost every year, sometimes more than once. You could say it is in our top one “Happy Places.” We tend toRead More …
American Express Aspire Card
I mentioned in an earlier blog that we are Hilton Honors members and Loyalists. We stay at Embassy Suites https://www.hilton.com/en/embassy/ whenever and wherever we can. Embassy Suites is the best value hotel stay in my opinion! What other chain provides you with a two room suite, a two hour manager’sRead More …
London at Christmas 2019 Prelude
Gearing up for London is no easy task! It literally takes months of plotting, planning and a willingness to change direction. Actually we did not have London on our minds this year even though we have spent Christmas there for the past three years. It began in September, 2018, overRead More …
London at Christmas 2016 Installment 2 The Crowne Plaza
Can’t say enough good things about this hotel; even though we arrived well before check-in time we were greeted warmly and into our room very quickly. I had to fight very hard the impulse to just lie down for a few moments to give my body and mind a bitRead More …
The Beginninng of a Blogging Career
I have absolutely no reason to believe that anyone will ever read this blog other than my wife, children, and maybe one of my brothers or sister. However, since my retirement two years ago, I find myself sitting around in my pajamas watching mindless TV and getting fat on junkRead More …