by Andy | Jul 2, 2014 | Airline Loyalty Programs, Travel, Trip Reports
Well friends, it’s here, my latest trip report! Come along as I traverse Europe and make a quick stopover in the Middle East on my way home. Onus Man that’s a weird subject heading isn’t it? Anyway, the onus for this trip was simple: I...
by Andy | Jun 24, 2014 | Asia, Japan, Tokyo, Travel, Trip Reports
After the, um, surprising experience at Halong Bay, I spent a quiet day in Hanoi partly at a spa and then at the sports bar in the Hilton before catching a taxi to the airport and checking in for my red-eye flight to Tokyo. I was going to be catching a First...
by Andy | Jun 23, 2014 | Asia, Travel, Trip Reports, Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHdzXzuISQ Well, like I mentioned in the video (what do you think of the video by the way? I know the production value is crap, working on it), After a couple of days in Hanoi I made my way to Halong Bay. Halong Bay is...
by Andy | Jun 13, 2014 | Asia, Travel, Trip Reports, Vietnam
I arrived late at night to Hanoi aboard a Dragonair A330. It was a short flight, and like I mentioned in my last post I was so exhausted that I fell asleep when I first sat in my seat and had to be lightly shaken awake by the flight attendant after we had...
by Andy | Jun 12, 2014 | Asia, Hong Kong, Travel, Trip Reports
Hong Kong is an energetic melting pot of the western world and the Far East. There’s no city quite like it. I don’t think it’d be out of bounds to call it a gateway to modern Asia in fact. A British colony until 1999, it is now...
by Andy | Jun 11, 2014 | Asia, Cathay Pacific, First, Hong Kong, Travel, Trip Reports
Back in 2012 I decided to get into the points and miles game. I had many e-mentors in my journey, among them Gary Leff, Ben, and Chris Guillebeau (I talk more about my travel inspiration in this post). I had taken a few small trips here and there, and,...