GLBT Travelers - ITINERARIES - July-Aug-Sept 2012

Siamese September
02SEP - KE094 - IAD-ICN
03SEP - KE653 - ICN-BKK
22SEP - KE652 - BKK-ICN
23SEP - KE093 - ICN-IAD

Going to see the Museum of the Air Force

Tuesday July 3: UA 4747 RDU-CLE
Tuesday July 3: UA 5274 CLE-DAY

Hampton Inn Troy, OH

Wednesday July 4: UA 3371 DAY-IAD
Wednesday July 4: UA 400 IAD-RDU

Hiya,

Visiting the great US of A and SE Asia over August/September.

29/8 – 30/8 : Singapore
31/8 – 5/9 : San Francisco
5/9 – 7/9 : Las Vegas
7/9 – 10/9 : New Haven
10/9 – 15/9 : New York
15/9 – 19/9 : Washington
19/9 – 21/9 : Los Angeles
23/9 – 25/9 : Kuala Lumpur

Cold beverage anyone?

Tim

Going to Portland and Seattle with a good friend
(-June 30th, DL, BTR>ATL>PDX)
-July 9th, DL, PDX>ATL>BTR
Three nights in Seattle at the Arctic Club

Going to LAX to see a good friend for the first time in almost four years
-July 19th, DL, BTR>ATL>LAX (ATL>LAX on the B767)
-July 24th, DL, LAX>ATL>BTR (LAX>ATL on the B777)
Hoping to stay one night at the Hilton Checkers or Beverly Hilton

Going to MIA (via ATL and LAX :p) to see a good friend
-August 7th, DL, BTR>ATL
-August 8th, DL, ATL>LAX (on the B777)
-August 8th, AA, LAX>MIA (on the B777)
-August 18th, AA, MIA>ATL>BTR
One night at the Conrad Miami to check it out

Going home to CMH and BOS and P-Town
-September 15th, DL, BTR>ATL>CMH
-September 19th, DL, CMH>BOS
-September 24th, DL, BOS>CMH
(-October 2nd, DL, CMH>ATL>BTR)

02 July UA BOS-SNA
05 July UA SNA-BOS

09 July UA BOS-IAD Element Hanover MD
11 July UA IAD-BOS

15 July UA BOS-DFW Sheraton Ft Worth, W Dallas over the weekend
27 July UA DFW-BOS

30 July BOS-DCA probably Element Hanover MD again
08 Aug DCA-BOS

12 Aug BOS-SEA
18 Aug SEA-BOS

25 Aug BOS-somewhere-GEO the dreaded return to Guyana where homosexuality is illegal. Whee.
31 Aug GEO-somewhere-MEX
14 Sept MEX-BOS again maybe squeeze a weekend somewhere. Suggestions?

Trying to book BOS-GEO on UA metal via POS (POS-GEO on BW) is turning into a nightmare involving an overnight in Trinidad. I guess there's worse places to be stuck!

15 JUN SFO-PDX VX
17 JUN PDX-SFO VX
(Whatsup with PDX hotel prices!? That means less $$ for the boys at Silverado!)

13 JUL OAK-BUR WN
15 JUL BUR-OAK WN

3 AUG SFO-MSY FL
6 AUG MSY-DFW AA
7 AUG DFW-SHV AA
8 AUG SHV-BOS AA
9 AUG Boston-Philadelphia Amtrak
10 AUG Phil-NYC Amtrak
12 AUG JFK-SFO B6

29 AUG - SFO-BUD BA
04 SEP - BUD-PRG CSA (If CSA is still around!)
09 SEP - PRG-BUD CSA
10 SEP - BUD-SFO BA

August 3: ROB-BRU-CDG
August 12: CDG-BRU-ROB

Parisian delights, anyone?

Any FTers going to Folsom Street Fair weekend in SF? It's early this year, Sept. 21-24.

My buddy who lives in SF is moving away. And the friend I've gone to Folsom with the last couple of years may not be able to go this year.

Annual San Francisco Giants Baseball Weekend Trip (8th Anniversary). I've also cashed in UA miles to take ps First one last time before it's gone.

Friday July 13: DL 3495 RDU-JFK
Friday July 13: UA 841 JFK-LAX (ps First)
Friday July 13: UA 627 LAX-SFO

Staying with a friend

Monday July 16: DL 806 SFO-MSP
Monday July 16: DL 3562 MSP-RDU

Seeing a friend who's visiting from London.

Tuesday July 17: DL 5785 RDU-LGA

Clarion LGA

Wednesday July 18: DL 3031 LGA-CVG
Wednesday July 18: DL 3181 CVG-RDU

I generally take most of July and August off. Even the AA ACs become more like romper room. No thanks, I'll stay home or instead hit the Pines, Jones Beach or Asbury Park.

But for July, 7/3-7/6 Miami/SoBe Whitelaw Hotel
8/4/-8/5 quick trip to Washington DC for high school reunion, Holiday Inn DCA
8/31-9/4 SoBe with a friend, Whitelaw Hotel
9/21/-9/23 Seattle, Ramada ($30 PL) and a Days Inn at SEA to shower and change before the redeye home
9/28-9/30 P Town, Harbor Hotel (hoping for a late warm summer weekend)

Ewr - lhr 8/8
lhr - ewr 8/15
ewr - nrt 8/26
nrt - tpe 8/27
tpe - sel 8/30
sel - tpe 9/1
tpe - nrt 9/5
nrt - ewr 9/5
ewr - zrh 9/9
zrh - dme 9/9
dme - zrh 9/14
zrh - ewr 9/14

6/30-7/2: Rome
7/2-7/3: Athens
7/3-7/4: Santorini
7/4-7/5: Mykonos
7/5-7/6: Athens
7/7 day: Dusseldorf
7/7-7/8: Milan
7/9-8/8: Seattle
8/9-8/13: Barcelona
8/14-9/6: Seattle
9/7-9/9: Manila
9/10-9/26: Seattle
9/26-9/27: Las Vegas
9/28-10/1: Rio de Janeiro

July

June 28 - July 2 (Gay Pride Toronto)
(Summer School so no more flying)

August

Aug 4: D.C.
Aug 9 - 11: Toronto
Aug 17 - 20: MTL (Montreal Pride)
Aug 23 - 25: Seattle
August 26 - 28: Miami
Aug 30: MTL
Aug 31 - Sept 3: HNL

September

Sept 7 - 9: San Francisco
Sept 14 - 16: Boston
Sept 21 - 23 Chicago
Sept 28 - 30: Seattle

MADRID AND SITGES GAY PRIDES

6/29 - AF LAX-CDG/CDG-MAD
7/2 - IB MAD-BCN
7/6 - IB BCN-MAD
7/8 - DL MAD-JFK/JFK-LAX

HOUSTON TO VISIT MY EX

7/13 - VX LAX-DFW/AA DFW-IAH
7/16 - UA IAH-LAX

PORTLAND, OR FOR INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL

7/20 - DL LAX-PDX
7/22 - DL PDX-LAX

MILEAGE RUN AND VISIT TO AUNT

7/27 - UA LAX-PHX
7/28 - DL PHX-MSP/MSP-MKE
7/29 - DL MKE-ATL/ATL-LAX

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAZY BEAR WEEKEND

8/1 - DL LAX-Santa Rosa
8/6 - DL Santa Rosa-LAX

MONTREAL GAY PRIDE

8/17 - DL LAX-DTW/DTW-Montreal
8/20 - DL Montreal-MSP/MSP-LAX

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIG BEAR ADVENTURE

8/24 to 8/26 Big Bear Lake, CA

JACKSON, MS for LABOR DAY

8/31 - DL LAX-MEM/MEM-JAN
9/3 - UA JAN-IAH/IAH-LAX

TEMPE, AZ for ASU SUN DEVIL FOOTBALL

9/8 - AA LAX-PHX
9/9 - AA PHX-LAX

FOLSOM STREET FAIR

9/22 - DL LAX-SFO
9/23 - DL SFO-LAX

meh. Things are getting fewer and farther between.

Up to the Last Frontier
July 5 SEA-JNU (AS)
July 7 JNU-ANC-FAI (AS)
July 10 FAI-ANC (AS)
July 12 ANC-SEA (AS)

Start of the family trip to the distant family in Italy
Sept 28 SEA-ORD-LHR (AA) -- 9hr layover, hitting town with London friends.
Sept 29 LHR-MUC (BA)
rental car to the Dolomites and beyond.
returning in October...another thread.

03SEP - KE653 - ICN-BKK


I'm on the very same flight! See below.

Fourth of July in ... Bangkok, of course!
June 30, DL 1555, ATL-LAX (J) in 7D on 777-200LR
June 30, DL 283, LAX-NRT (J) in 7A on very same plane
July 1, DL 283, NRT-BKK (J) on A333 (plane change)
The Peninsula Bangkok
July 7, KE 643, BKK-ICN (J)
July 8, KE 17, ICN-BKK (J) on A380
July 8, DL 1554, LAX-ATL

Barcelona for a conference
Aug. 25, DL 2086, ATL-LGA *
Aug. 25, DL 94, JFK-BCN (J)
Axel Hotel Barcelona
Hotel Arts Barcelona
Sept. 1, DL 95, BCN-JFK (J)**
Sept. 1, DL 2143, JFK-ATL
First time to Barcelona. *Odd pricing on ATL-JFK so doing an airport change to save about $250. **First time arriving on DL international at JFK, should be an adventure.

Bangkok for Labor Day
Sept. 2, DL 1455, ATL-LAX
Sept. 2, KE 18, LAX-ICN (J) on A380
Sept. 3, KE 653, ICN-BKK (J)
The Peninsula Bangkok
Sept. 9, DL 284, BKK-NRT (J)
Sept. 9, DL 296, NRT-ATL (J) UD on refurb'd 744
Flying BCN-JFK-ATL-LAX-ICN-BKK on Sept. 1-3. Is that wrong?

Day Trip to Singapore for shopping
Sept. 4, 3K 512, BKK-SIN
Sept. 4, FD 3510, SIN-BKK
First time on Asian LCC's, should be interesting.

San Francisco for Folsom weekend
Sept. 21, DL 1749, ATL-SFO
Inter-Continental San Francisco (on Howard St., stone's throw to Folsom)
Sept. 24, DL 2049, SFO-ATL

July 1
DL 1932 = JAX - ATL
DL 935 = ATL - EWR

July 6
DL 935 =EWR - ATL
DL 1789 = ATL - JAX

Here we are...
28-Jun SIN-HKG
29-Jun HKG-HEL - Flying visit to a wedding...
02-Jul HEL-SIN

04-Jul SIN-BOM - Work trip middle of monsoon season... blah...
11-Jul BOM-SIN

13-Jul SIN-LHR - Summer break in Europe! Yay!
21-Jul LHR-FRA
22-Jul FRA-LHR
22-Jul LHR-HEL
29-Jul HEL-LHR
29-Jul LHR-SIN

August - My calendar looks far too blank!

September - Could find a reason to pop over to Sydney for week or two...
:cool:

Busy few months coming up! So far:

29-JUN AA DCA-MIA-UVF
29-JUN LI SLU-SVD
30-JUN LI SVD-GND
01-JUL LI GND-SVD-BGI
02-JUL LI BGI-DOM
03-JUL LI DOM-ANU
04-JUL AA ANU-SJU-MIA-DCA

13-JUL UA IAD-YOW
15-JUL US YOW-DCA

20-JUL UA IAD-YOW
22-JUL UA YOW-IAD

02-AUG WAS-LAS - to book, fares are ridiculous!
06-AUG LAS-WAS - tbd

17-AUG UA IAD-YOW
19-AUG UA YOW-IAD

07-SEP AA DCA-DFW-MIA-PAP
09-SEP AA PAP-FLL-DFW-DCA

28-SEP US DCA-YOW
28-SEP AC YOW-YYT
29-SEP AC YYT-YHZ-YUL-YOW-YYZ-YVR
30-SEP UA YVR-SFO-LAX

...to be continued in October!

98103 - hopefully we'll have good weather for you when you visit. Summer just "started" today... its been quite the depressing spring compared to past ones.

31 Aug - JNU-SEA

2 SEP - SEA-LAX (AS)
2 SEP - LAX-ATL (DL)
2 SEP - ATL-SJU (DL) (only $176 one way!!)
3 SEP - SJU-EIS (AA)
6 SEP - STT-MIA (AA)
6 SEP - MIA-MCO (AA)
11 SEP - FLL-SEA (AS)
11 SEP - SEA-JNU (AS)

July 1 GOT- FRA -IAD (J)
July 5-7 NYC
July 15 return home to Sweden

21-Jul AKL-SYD
23-Jul SYD-AKL

Hope more will come :)

08 Jul LH1127 BCN/FRA returning from Sitges
08 Jul LH964 FRA/EDI

no more flights planned till Oct!:o

7/12 jfk-bos (b6) bos-pvc (9k)
7/16 pvc-bos (9k) bos-jfk (b6)

7/27 lga-ord (ua)
7/29 ord-lga (ua)

Just had a work trip pop up.

26 Jul - JNU-SEA (AS)
26 Jul - SEA-MSP (DL)
26 Jul - MSP-MDW (DL)

29 Jul - ORD-SEA (AS)
29 Jul - SEA-JNU (AS)

28 Jul MSP-DTW-LHR
29 Jul LHR-AMS

31 Jul AMS-LHR-MSP

Going Half Way Around the World the Long Way Around:

24 July: WAS-BOS Amtrak Acela
24 July: BOS-LHR VS 12
25 July: LHR-IST TK 1986
26 July: IST-HKG TK 70
28 July: HKG-SIN SQ 891
30 July: SIN-IST TK 67
31 July: IST-LHR TK 1979
31 July: LHR-BOS VS 11
31 July: BOS-BWI FL 729

To COW DO VIII

31 Aug: DCA-EWR UA 3848
31 Aug: EWR-EZE UA 847
03 Sept: EZE-IAH UA 52
04 Sept: IAH-DCA UA 1733

Multi-activity trip to LA

20 Sept: IAD-LAX VX 99
23 Sept: LAX-IAD VX114

Europe in August anyone?

7/31-8/5 Germany - Kassel/Frankfurt (Documenta)
8/5-8/15 France - Poitiers/Limoges
8/15-8/25 Poland - Warsaw/Krakow/?
8/25-8/28 Czech Republic - Prague

Flying to/from SFO on UA

7/25-7/27 Vienna
7/27-7/29 Prague
7/30-9/6 Tel Aviv

Anyone? ;)

Friday August 24:
UA 4757 RDU-CLE
UA 5165 CLE-ORD

Sunday August 26:
UA 428 ORD-RDU

Staying with a friend of mine, seeing Mariners at White Sox Saturday night. Will probably SDC onto a different return routing involving a connection.

Aug 2 F9 721 DCA-DEN

Aug 9 UA 648 DEN-PIT
Aug 13 UA 1235 PIT-DEN

Aug 25 LH 447 DEN-FRA
Aug 26 LH 1012 FRA-BRU
Aug 27 SWISS 781 BRU-ZRH // SWISS 1174 ZRH-STR
Aug 28 LH 2147 STR-MUC // LH 2464 MUC-HEL
Aug 29 LH 849 HEL-FRA // JP 113 FRA-LJU
Aug 30 OU 300 ZAG-DBV
Sep 01 OU 663 DBV-ZAG // OU 416 ZAG-FRA // LH 446 FRA-DEN

Sep 08 UA 862 DEN-LAX // UA 934 LAX-LHR
Sep 20 LH CDG-FRA // LH 446 FRA-DEN

I'll be in Chicago from August 6-12
Then to the RNC in Tampa from August 25-31
And then the DNC in Charlotte from Sept 2-7
All on AA
Hope to run into some of you on any of those trips.

Going to my hometown (Rye, NY), meeting a F/A friend who's on a layover and hanging out in NYC.

Sunday August 19:
US 3272 RDU-PHL
US 4526 PHL-HVN

Hilton Newark Penn Station

Monday August 20:
AA 4607 LGA-RDU

Got in on the US Airways $30 fares from DCA. Going to see the Museum of Naval Aviation and hit the beach.

Friday September 7:
Drive to Washington D.C.

Fairfield Inn Dulles Airport

Saturday September 8:
US 3899 DCA-PNS

Best Western Pensacola Blue Angel Inn

Sunday September 9:
US 3750 PNS-DCA
Drive home to Durham

August 30 - September 3: LGA to MSY on DL for Southern Decadence, staying at the new Hyatt French Quarter

September 20-24: JFK to SFO on DL for Folsom, staying at the Civic Center Holiday Inn

Flying from San Francisco to San Jose

Sept 12, 2012:
AA 2042 SFO-MIA in F
AA 2127 MIA-SJO in J

Sept 19, 2012:
AA 986 SJO-MIA in J
AA 1783 MIA-SFO in F

Going to the Dominican Republic for my first time!

Saturday September 1:
UA 4268 RDU-IAH
UA 1032 IAH-PTY
CM 268 PTY-SDQ

Intercontinental Santo Domingo

Monday September 3:
CM 107 SDQ-PTY
CM 235 PTY-ORD

Tuesday September 4:
UA 488 ORD-RDU

It just occurred to me that I haven't posted here in months and months. Before August is out, I'll be hitting some of my usual haunts. In September, hopefully I'll be making stops in Modena, Mantova and Marina di Ragusa. And then before then end of the year, I'll be back in North America and Asia, though I really need to start thinking about booking those flights.

So for the time being:
16 AUG FCO-MRS AF4329
16 AUG MRS-ORY AF6023

19 AUG CDG-MAD AF1600
22 AUG BCN-CDG AF2049

That reminds me that I still haven't booked a flight back to Rome yet. I should do something about that!

21SEP YVR-SFO UA 1594 F
22SEP SFO-FRA LH 455 F
23SEP FRA-CDG LH 1040 J

25SEP CDG-BKK TG 931 F
26SEP BKK-NRT TG 676 F

Peninsula Tokyo

28SEP NRT-BKK TG 677 F

Peninsula Bangkok / St. Regis Bangkok

03OCT BKK-CDG TG 930 F

04OCT CDG-FRA LH 1041 J

05OCT FRA-SFO LH 454 F
05OCT SFO-YVR AC 565 J

Anyone in Singapore Sept. 3rd?

Fly in on Dulta via LAX / NRT on the 3rd and back to the States the morning of Sept. 4th,

31aug sfo-hnl ua1405
03sep hnl-sfo ua724

September 30 - October 6
RCCL Exploder of the Seas
New Jersey - Bermuda
Birthday cruise for mummie

Anyone in Singapore Sept. 3rd?

Fly in on Dulta via LAX / NRT on the 3rd and back to the States the morning of Sept. 4th,

I'm day-tripping to Singapore from Bangkok on September 4th. But as you're going out on the DL flight, you'll be en route to Narita long before I arrive.

Thursday September 20:
AA 4434 RDU-LGA

Birthday dinner for a friend

Quality Inn Jamaica-Air Train

Friday September 21:
DL 920 JFK-DEN

Two nights with a friend. Road trip to Cheyenne, WY

Sunday September 23:
UA 946 DEN-PHX

Day in Phoenix with friends, hiking, meals, poker

DL 1730 PHX-DTW
DL 4908 DTW-RDU

Should be a great time.

Sept 15 UA 1454 SFO-ORD

Sept 16 UA 282 ORD-SFO

In addition, I work at SFO and live close if your passing through.

27 SEP SFO-LAX-PSP UA1594 and UA5572
30 SEP PSP-LAX-SFO UA6451 and UA353