…wever, that seems counterproductive to me in that it would be discouraging new business. If I had to fly to Los Angeles and American had a non stop flight from New York but I had no status and I had to check two bags or United for the same price, had a connection and I have status with them: I would certainly strongly consider taking the connection to save the extra $80 in fees and American would in fact lose my business. That seems to make sense…
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Eye Opening Iran
July 27, 2008 by 12 Comments
…elcoming people of Iran. After a brief stop in Istanbul, I am back home in New York now and loving being back home. It was a very long and tiring trip that I will need a some time to reflect on that brought me around the world, to eight new countries and some amazing destinations. This was one of my best trips ever and I will have some more over the next few days as I have a some time to put it all into perpective. I did put a few pictures up in t…
Farewell Old Friend
September 21, 2008 by 4 Comments
…ollowing night. I remember walking out of the stadium with Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York blaring over and over on the loud speakers just thinking how amazing it was to have happened on back to back nights and how truly special Yankee Stadium is. In 2003, I went to the stadium early in the day to try to scalp tickets to game seven of the ALCS against the hated Red Sox. This night was another of the greatest all time games but there is much to…
A Busy Winter
December 24, 2008 by 3 Comments
…from Curacao to the Bahamas and I am leaving tomorrow for a 16 country (14 new) West African tour starting in Nouakchott, Mauritania and ending in Lagos, Nigeria. I will be blogging it as often as possible. However, it is Africa and in fact West Africa so the connection speed may be awful if it’s even available at all. So please do check back with me over the next month or so. Again, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza or whatever and as I am…
Alpine Road Trip
April 3, 2009 by 4 Comments
…h is the gateway to Neuschwanstein Castle, one of the 20 finalists for the new seven wonders of the world and in fact the only one of the 20 finalists that I had not previiously been to. I was pretty stoked and Neuschwanstein Castle did not disappoint. After an amazing drive through the Alps and back into South Bavaria, we arrived and walked up the 30 minutes or so up to the castle avoiding horse shit the whole way up the hill. Horse drawn carriag…
Italia in Short and Pictures
June 1, 2009 by 3 Comments
…pizza on the planet. I have to say as a pizza connoisseur and a veteran of New York City and New Haven storied pizzerias that Naples had some of the best pies I’ve ever had and one in particular is making me drool as I type this post, Da Michelle. They only serve one thing and that’s margherita pizza and they do it so good it makes a grown man want to cry. Seriously-that’s how good it is-I think I may have, I mean look at it. Other than that thoug…
Marvelous Madeira
June 12, 2009 by 14 Comments
…he television were all abuzz over their favorite son and his new team. The new Galacticos era has begun at the Bernabeu-hopefully it will be as much of a failure as the last one. Mt trip to Madeira started a little rough because of the notoriously poorly placed airport right on a sheer, tall cliff that famously had an accident in 1977 where the plane ran off the short runway into the cliff and sea below. Luckily, they lengthened the runway and a 7…
Gorillas in the Mist
January 2, 2010 by 20 Comments
…ent at Kiboko Tours, Rosette, emailed me and said there was one opening on New Year’s Day for the Susa group which was the only group I wanted to do. Susa is the hardest hike and the best gorillas and they recently had an addition of 4 new babies. There was some confusion (shocker I know) early in the morning (at 3am) as my ride from Kigali was an hour and a half late to pick me up to drive 2.5 hours to the base camp for the trek. When we finally…
Wallis and Futuna
June 30, 2010 by 14 Comments
…exact role he played in Shawshank Redemption so go figure. I am typing this on the plane to New Caledonia where I will spend the next three nights. It’s another French place I expect to be unreasonably expensive but it is what it is I guess as I cannot change my flights anyway. After New Caledonia I have one night in Brisbane and I finally go back home and I am so excited I can’t even tell you. This has been a very long trip with a lot of downtim…
