Travel Part 2 - Where ya headed?

[The Rube]

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NE IPAs are wonderful. And this is from a stout guy.

King's Burgers: better than House Of Coates (also wonderful) and that's saying something.

 

[mookie1995]

Well, were being put up in €280/night rooms at the Sheraton. It will suffice.

Cha Ching on the bonus points

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Cha Ching on the bonus points

Corporate card.

Was it through mother minings TA?
I've heard they do a great job in situations like you experienced.

It was and they were amazing.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Corporate card.

Ugh. I miss the days of double-dipping on points - book everything to a personal card to get the double points on the card, save the receipts, earn your hotel and airline points for staying/flying, expense at the end of the trip.

All the big ticket stuff has to go on the AmEx Corporate Gold now.

 

[mookie1995]

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Mookie gets the airline and hotel points but misses out on the card earning with the corp Amex

Also miss the membership rewards since company keeps these to get cash back. Suppose they can keep that since Mookie gets to fly business or first and the sweet bonus miles

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Ugh. I miss the days of double-dipping on points - book everything to a personal card to get the double points on the card, save the receipts, earn your hotel and airline points for staying/flying, expense at the end of the trip.

All the big ticket stuff has to go on the AmEx Corporate Gold now.

Yeah, but at least get to keep the points for the flight, or the actual stay, just not the points for the purchase. Better than nothing. At the same time, I'm glad I don't have to put a $10,000 trip to India on my personal card...

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Almost have all of our bookings complete for my family's trip to Sweden and Norway. Just 2 nights in Bergen to get a vacation rental booked, but my sister is supposed to be taking care of that one...

We'll have 3 days in Stockholm, and planning on going to a Djurgarden game at Hovet one night there. Driving across southern Sweden to check out a few places where my family is from. Going to Oslo, then flying to Bergen for 2 days, to do Fjord tours. Then flying back to Oslo and spending 2 days there. Lastly, driving to Gothenburg to spend a day there.

Edit: Also, very close to tracking down some living relatives in Sweden. I found family and where they lived to 1985, and I know which church they belonged to. I reached out to the church, and got a response from the guy that runs their website. He said he's going show my questions to his colleagues, and he thinks they will be able to help me out and put me in touch with the family.

 

[leswp1]

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Almost have all of our bookings complete for my family's trip to Sweden and Norway. Just 2 nights in Bergen to get a vacation rental booked, but my sister is supposed to be taking care of that one...

We'll have 3 days in Stockholm, and planning on going to a Djurgarden game at Hovet one night there. Driving across southern Sweden to check out a few places where my family is from. Going to Oslo, then flying to Bergen for 2 days, to do Fjord tours. Then flying back to Oslo and spending 2 days there. Lastly, driving to Gothenburg to spend a day there.

Edit: Also, very close to tracking down some living relatives in Sweden. I found family and where they lived to 1985, and I know which church they belonged to. I reached out to the church, and got a response from the guy that runs their website. He said he's going show my questions to his colleagues, and he thinks they will be able to help me out and put me in touch with the family.

This is so cool! I am in touch with a 2nd cousin over there. They use Heritage site for family tree stuff. You may want to check on there- that is where all the cousins have hooked up with each other.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I actually made it on a plane! That's good!

I didn't get a window seat. That's bad...

There's free premium booze on transatlantic fights (front to back!) served a couple times a flight and they don't mind serving you a double. That's good!

I'm sitting next to someone who believes that showers are the way the devil gets inside you. That's bad...

The food is immensely improved over the last time I remember eating on a flight (it was actually quite tasty!) That's good!

The meals likely contain potassium benzoate.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Oh my god. Literally the only person on the entire A330 with her window open (strike one) is now fanning herself with a large red pamphlet that is pulsating an immensely bright light across he entire cabin (strike 2).

What in the actual ****? Do you not use a light for reading and the **** air vent to cool yourself off?

 

[leswp1]

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Is there a crying baby? That is the litmus test

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I'd take two over this. It was foul.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I'd take two over this. It was foul.

Worse than what you experienced, and worse than babies, are the plane farters. There is no where for that stench to go, *******. If you need to rip one, go to the ****ter.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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The woman I sat next to hadn't bathed in over a week and doesn't believe in deodorant*. At one point she lifted her arm over her head and leaned against the window.

I just about died right then and there. It was sour and putrefied.

She also was extremely large. Like, I had a half a seat and couldn't get the armrest down large. I couldn't get away from her. If I moved my leg, hers would immediately occupy the space mine previously did.

And she couldn't figure out how to open her sealed food packets like crackers. So I had to help her numerous times. Then I had my tray when I was done eating waiting for the flight attendant and she starts putting her **** on my tray.

She would also periodically, quickly, and without warning slam the window open and then back shut. Just enough to scorch your retinas and then have to readjust so you could see the tv again. Good practice for the solar eclipse I guess. Cripes.

Then, we were beginning the process of disembarking and we were in row like 33. I knew it was going to be a solid 20 minutes before we got off. So I stayed in my seat. She decides to start getting up and "EXUSE ME!" I look at her and say, "Lady, I'm not moving because we ain't going anywhere anytime soon." She sat back down only to bowl me over while I was getting my carry on down when it was our turn.

*Nor did the rest of her family who were in the seats across the aisle.

 

[leswp1]

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that does not sound good.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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The woman I sat next to hadn't bathed in over a week and doesn't believe in deodorant*. At one point she lifted her arm over her head and leaned against the window.

I just about died right then and there. It was sour and putrefied.

She also was extremely large. Like, I had a half a seat and couldn't get the armrest down large. I couldn't get away from her. If I moved my leg, hers would immediately occupy the space mine previously did.

And she couldn't figure out how to open her sealed food packets like crackers. So I had to help her numerous times. Then I had my tray when I was done eating waiting for the flight attendant and she starts putting her **** on my tray.

She would also periodically, quickly, and without warning slam the window open and then back shut. Just enough to scorch your retinas and then have to readjust so you could see the tv again. Good practice for the solar eclipse I guess. Cripes.

Then, we were beginning the process of disembarking and we were in row like 33. I knew it was going to be a solid 20 minutes before we got off. So I stayed in my seat. She decides to start getting up and "EXUSE ME!" I look at her and say, "Lady, I'm not moving because we ain't going anywhere anytime soon." She sat back down only to bowl me over while I was getting my carry on down when it was our turn.

*Nor did the rest of her family who were in the seats across the aisle.

This sounds like an epic @PassengerShame story.

 

[mookie1995]

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Then, we were beginning the process of disembarking and we were in row like 33. I knew it was going to be a solid 20 minutes before we got off. So I stayed in my seat. She decides to start getting up and "EXUSE ME!" I look at her and say, "Lady, I'm not moving because we ain't going anywhere anytime soon." She sat back down only to bowl me over while I was getting my carry on down when it was our turn.

*Nor did the rest of her family who were in the seats across the aisle.

welcome to the rest of the world

US is the only place where one is programmed to wait their turn to get up and start the march up front

 

[burd]

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welcome to the rest of the world

US is the only place where one is programmed to wait their turn to get up and start the march up front

Several years ago, we took a number of shorter flights around Turkey with our daughter, who had lived there for several years and flew weekly for business to Ankara, Izmir, and Antalya. She told us the young men would jump up during taxi and push their way ahead, even being rude to older women. She was right. We loved the Turkish people we met, but that was an odd experience.

 

[Greyeagle]

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The woman I sat next to hadn't bathed in over a week and doesn't believe in deodorant*. At one point she lifted her arm over her head and leaned against the window.

I just about died right then and there. It was sour and putrefied.

She also was extremely large. Like, I had a half a seat and couldn't get the armrest down large. I couldn't get away from her. If I moved my leg, hers would immediately occupy the space mine previously did.

And she couldn't figure out how to open her sealed food packets like crackers. So I had to help her numerous times. Then I had my tray when I was done eating waiting for the flight attendant and she starts putting her **** on my tray.

She would also periodically, quickly, and without warning slam the window open and then back shut. Just enough to scorch your retinas and then have to readjust so you could see the tv again. Good practice for the solar eclipse I guess. Cripes.

Then, we were beginning the process of disembarking and we were in row like 33. I knew it was going to be a solid 20 minutes before we got off. So I stayed in my seat. She decides to start getting up and "EXUSE ME!" I look at her and say, "Lady, I'm not moving because we ain't going anywhere anytime soon." She sat back down only to bowl me over while I was getting my carry on down when it was our turn.

*Nor did the rest of her family who were in the seats across the aisle.

And you just know the woman you would have sat next to on your original flight is a fashion model who likes hockey, craft beer, and has a strange fetish for engineers.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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And you just know the woman you would have sat next to on your original flight is a fashion model who likes hockey, craft beer, and has a strange fetish for engineers.

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