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50,000 miles in under three months.
Needless to say, the next few months is going to be incredibly busy! Starting this weekend, I have 6 big trips planned in the next three months. Short story is: Ski and birthday weekend in Mont...
View ArticleHow I went to Hawaii for 9 days, and flew there first class….for FREE!
So when I found the $0 fare on United last fall, valid not just to California as I’d assumed but to anywhere in the United States, I booked as many as I could as quickly as I could, knowing I’d always...
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3 days in Kona at the Sheraton Kona and King Kam’s Beach Resort
One problem I was having when booking this trip was the price of rental cars. They were absolutely outrageous, coming in at well over $100 a day for a compact car. Ugh, and that was on the cheapest...
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Kona, Hawaii (KOA) to Maui, Hawaii (OGG) on Mokulele Airlines
After breakfast at Island Lava Java, we had a quick trip to the airport, and dropped off the rental car with Alamo. Now, Kailua-Kona isn’t a very big airport to begin with, but our airline, Mokulele...
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MKK-LUP-MKK on Makani Kai and tour of Kalaupapa Leper Colony
From everything I’d read, the Kalaupapa Leper Colony was the main thing to be certain to see on Moloka’i. For the better part of several decades, lepers from all the Hawaiian islands were sent here to...
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MKK-HNL on Island Air…maybe!
After our stop at the Post Office, we got back to the airport around 4:30 for our 6:45pm flight on Island Air to Honolulu. As the taxi was taking us back she asked us who we would be flying to...
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Honolulu to Washington on United
Drive to the airport was completely uneventful, and it was sad to say goodbye to the convertible and the Hawaiian sun…and head back to the frozen wastelands of Washington. But, at least we had business...
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Perhaps my craziest routing yet…Hawaii, Andorra, and Vegas, OH MY!
Earlier this year, United published, either by mistake or not – it’s not entirely clear – a $1500 all-inclusive business class fare for the summer from a handful of U.S. cities to a handful of European...
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DC to Honolulu, and evening in Honolulu
Ok, this took far, far longer than I planned to get around to. I figured “I’ll be spending 30,000 miles on planes over the course of 12 days, lots of time for writing.” What I didn’t take into...
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Day in Honolulu, and redeye to DC
Thanks to an early night, managed to wake up early…around 530, and headed out for a “short” run to fight off jet lag. Headed down Kalakaua towards Diamond Head, before realizing it was too early and...
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