Archive for February, 2008
Posted in February 29th, 2008
Title: Ferry Kalakala Returns to Seattle
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Description: The MV Kalakala is towed back to Elliot Bay, Seattle from Alaska.
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
US Airways has a special offer going right now we actually found useful. After my recent rant on how hard it is to use airmiles now-a-days, there is some good news coming out of USAir. They made it easier to transfer those miles from one family member to the another. Normally the cost to […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Title: Morpho Butterfly
Location: Costa Rica
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Today starts an attempt at 365 photos for the next year, one a day. All images are found on our photography site Hidden Creek Photography
Title: Just Happy
Location: Lukla, Nepal
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Building on the last post about how crappy USAir has become with redeeming miles, I checked in on Alaska Air today. As of April 1st, 2008, any inactivity for 2 years means your miles get yanked. It used to be 3 years. While not as bad as United or American’s policies of […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
It’s getting crappier and crappier to try to redeem airmiles. Everyone seems to advertise 25,000 miles will get you a roundtrip ticket in the US which is the old norm. When Kim and I recently went to redeem miles to get her sister Angie a flight out here from either Harrisburg or Philadelphia, PA, we […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2008
Here are some interesting posts from around the web this week.
–Intelligent Traveler always includes some interesting photos from around the world, explaining how the shot was taken as a means of helping others. The image from Mali is a great portrait.
–Dave’s on a drive to the tip of South America in a Toyota Land […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2008
On a link from a link from a link, I came across this great resource on packing lists and other sites. The site is actually one I hadn’t heard of but plan to catch up on. Called Go Green Travel Green, the site seems to offer a good round up of information on making your […]
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Posted in February 24th, 2008
I’m searching for some new bloc writing software. I’m not happy with my current choice, Zoundry for a couple of reasons. First, they have an affiliate program and aggregate multiple accounts, such as Amazon and buy.com. This seems great but when you go to your account blog they last report on sales was from 2006!! […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
In reading through some posts today i found this interesting question over at the Organic Wine Company regarding the use of Auxi Gro (I never have liked product names that have horrible spelling).
More travel related content coming soon……like why just about every date from now until June is a “Premium” date for using miles on […]
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