Beautiful pictures, Rudi and Blondebomber.
Switzerland is a beautiful country and now has moved to number 1 on where the Cat will go next (As soon as he can figure out how he can work it out in his schedule!)
FYI: There are a few pictures of my visit to the nation's capital made better by Phil and Sally Forest, Geo1004 and TribeFlyer. They are coming soon to NJDavid's FlyerTalk gallery.
There are four great looking people in these pix... even with me in it! It's not Switzerland but it shows how F-T has brought us all together.
Location: In protest of Flyertalk's uncalledfor censoring of my point of view, I cancelled my InsideFlyer subscription. So long, and thanks for everything.
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As I've been seeing some new names lately, I thought it might be time to bring the "Who we all are" threads forward again.
Please use this one for posting and the other just to read. Here's an open request to Bryan/Michael at Webflyer to lock the other one with a link to this.
So tell us something about yourselves. (Itineraries not needed).
Location: In protest of Flyertalk's uncalledfor censoring of my point of view, I cancelled my InsideFlyer subscription. So long, and thanks for everything.
31 - (32 in two weeks!!!!!!) - attorney turned consultant for a large insurance company. Newly transplanted to Illinois, so I like to travel home to the East Coast (Philly-town) as often as possible. My "region" includes NC, VA, MD, DE and the D.of C. - so those are my major destinations. I also have had the great pleasure to travel to some awesome destinations recently for pleasure (New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Key West)
Love NW (I know, I know, I'm the only one on the planet who does) and am trying to gather enough miles to take my 9 year old niece to China to visit relatives before she's 11.
Love this forum - for the uninitiated - it really is a friendly and funny group of people who just happen to have this crazy hobby.
Okay, I guess it's about time I tell everyone who Flyaway is.
I am 26 years old and own my own business in downtown Toronto, Canada. I do enough traveling to trade shows around the world (New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, Vancouver, Paris, London and Kingston (Jamaica)) to qualify for Elite status with Air Canada Aeroplan.
I 'discovered' frequent flyer programs when I studied in Leysin, Switzerland and Paris, France and used to fly between Europe, North America and the Caribbean to see family and friends.
I speak fluent French and English (I went to secondary school in French in Montreal) and really love to travel.
My name is David and I'm a San Francisco-based independent consultant in the computer software field. My clients are large companies that hire lots of computer programmers, and I train and mentor them. I have done a lot of software development and project management in the past, and at one time was a founding partner in a multimedia company that developed screen savers and CD-ROMs.
Like many others who do systems work, I have no academic training in computer science whatsoever. My college work was in Russian and abstract mathematics.
I have an office at home, but virtually all my billable work is out of town. I travel about thirty weeks a year, all of it in North America. I am trying to get some time off the road this summer to develop some new training materials that I hope to begin marketing in fall of this year.
This is my third travel job - the first was as a tech support rep in my early 20's, the second as a consultant in my mid 30's, and now this. I guess I have spent about 7 of my 20 professional years on the road.
I grew up in Coral Gables, FL (near Miami), went to college in Nashville, lived in Washington, DC and on a commune of sorts in West Virgina (well, it was the 70's...) after college, and finally moved to California where I have lived happily for the last 18 years. I spent the first year in Laguna Niguel in Southern California, and moved to San Francisco after that.
My favorite hobbies are eating out, cooking, going to the movies, theatre (especially trips up to Ashland, Oregon), skiing, travel, computers, and most of all, sitting on 24th Street in San Francisco having a good cup of coffee and watching the world go by.
I have enjoyed getting to "meet" many FT'ers in the last few months and greatly appreciated your help in several instances.
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Punki, congrats on 1000. We do know you are Seattle person, married and not much more.
flyguy is south florida guy who is aero engineer designing jet engines. Ask my what airplanes to fly! I also model for department store cataloges. Flying is my primary means of earning miles/points. Where is auturo's info? Thanks B2 for new post.
The fact that this topic continues to generate attention leads me to introduce myself as well.
My name is Ronald, and I am the founder of an Internet start-up in San Francisco. That basically means that I am joining every second person in the U.S. who it seems is starting an Internet company. However, I can claim that this is my second Internet start-up - the previous one (called Ironlight Digital, and after a merger is called Novo Interactive...don't ask how we evolved to have a horrible name from such an awesome name as "Ironlight" :-)) I grew from 1 employee (yours truly) to about 60 people. I then left to start the new company. BORING...
Flying-wise, most of my clients in my previous companies were in the eastern half of the US, Europe and Asia, so I amassed miles to take my wife on our honeymoon to South Africa (LH First Class from Frankfurt in the wonderful sleeper seats...even *I* slept!). I am a dedicated United flyer (only because of the mileage golden handcuffs) and typically come out at the top end of Premier Executive (only one year as a 1K...meaning I flew a thousand miles, right? - just joking, 100,100 or thereabouts thanks to a same day turnaround shuttle to LA to make the cut on December 30 after returning from a trip to Chicago...real smart!).
I enjoy tremendously learning from some of the more well-traveled among you FT'ers, and especially enjoy finding new places to stay and dining (sleeping and eating are, by my sumo-like figure, among my favorite activities. I have lived in Japan, Finland, Chicago (getting my MBA), Portland, OR (undergrad.) and New York. San Francisco is the best, and if anyone traveling this way needs anything, please give me a call/email! :-)
Yes, flyguy, I am a Seattle person and married (for almost 30 years). You can learn more than you'll ever want to know about me and my company from our website (AND see a picture of me during my 1st trip to Hawaii). www.exhibitd.com
I travelled over 100 business trip segments last year and never even began to get tired of it. I am AK-MVP Gold, UAL-Premex and NWA-Silver Elite. If I fly any other airline, it is almost always Alaska Award Travel and always for fun.
We live in a old house on Queen Anne and have two mostly grown children (22 & 24). Our children and business have both now matured to the point where we are finally able to really enjoy ourselves. We love to go to the theater, ballet, symphony and opera, and bike, travel, explore, garden, ski, sail, cook and eat, but most of all we love to DANCE! Swing, waltz, foxtrot, salsa, tango, hustle, even zydeco.
Oh yes, I (but not Joe) love to shop. My sisters and I run off on a few trips a year to check out the stores in various parts of the country.
I am Really looking forward to meeting everybody at the PARTY IN PARADISE and will be so happy if all of you can come. (It would especially fantastic if baobab were there and could inspect my newly acquire light-traveller packing skills. )
Aloha!
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You're planning to pack for two weeks using only one of those toiletry bags that the Better Airlines hand out?
- hmmm... could be worth witnessing (but alas, no seats left upstairs on UA57...)
If I don't make it I expect at least a photograph!
