Keri and I have been getting ready for our turn around mileage run to HNL (Honolulu, Hawaii). That’s over twenty hours in a plane with just a mai tai in the middle! I’ve been watching the tickets like crazy, waiting for upgrades to be available. The leg to HNL is …
Read More »Gilt.com’s Vacation Clothing Sale
I just wanted to drop a quick note about Gilt.com’s vacation style sale. While they offer some great pieces for travel, they don’t really explain why. Many of the pieces are jersey pieces. Jersey is stretchy, lightweight and doesn’t wrinkle easily. The perfect items to pack in a suitcase and …
Read More »My 3 Hour Jamaican Vacation
My mileage run to Jamaica was a pretty relaxing 3-hour vacation. But next time I do a 3-hour vacation to Jamaica, I won’t do it after a Bahamas trip the day before. I arrived home from my Bahamas trip around 8pm and went straight to bed. I had to be …
Read More »A Mileage Run to the Bahamas
The first day of my 48-hour quest for Platinum was my DCA-PHL-NAS-CLT-DCA trip with a 2 and a half hour layover in Nassau. Let me just say straight out that I do not recommend doing a mileage run to Nassau until construction there is completed. Especially when you have another …
Read More »A Mild Travel Obsession, or US Airways Platinum
To catch you up to where I am now, I hit US Airways Silver, then Gold Status using their Trial Preferred. A few days after arriving back from Orlando, I sent a cheeky email to Keri. Â “Considering going for Platinum.” I was at 16,276 miles and I would hit …
Read More »Silver and Beyond
I had no difficulty hitting US Airways Silver Preferred Status during my Preferred Trial. I knew I had more than enough miles for Silver, but I never really paid attention to how much more. One day, while looking at my miles (I know you do this too), I realized I …
Read More »Flying with Silver Trial Preferred Status
My first flight with status was a busy route–DCA to BOS.  I was shocked when I was upgraded to first class two days out from the flight.  I was pretty excited that I could get an upgrade on this route in particular. DCA-BOS is a really busy business route.   …
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