Who we all are
Dec 15, 1999 | 10:39 am
#394
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
Posts: 10,259
Hoku, that's ok if you are allegic to cat fur. My friend HOlly is (I had to dust myself off before seeing her 
and my friend Richie is (which is how I got Yaz and Cleo -- now in kitty heaven.)
It's a beautiful story that if anyone wants me to share it I will someday VIA E-MAIL NOT HERE (or risk being arrested by CMDR CATCOP!)
and my friend Richie is (which is how I got Yaz and Cleo -- now in kitty heaven.)It's a beautiful story that if anyone wants me to share it I will someday VIA E-MAIL NOT HERE (or risk being arrested by CMDR CATCOP!)
Dec 15, 1999 | 11:37 am
#395
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: too far from the airport
Posts: 3,299
Thanks for the welcome.
Blonde Bomber and any other birding or snorkeling enthusiast: you're welcome to contact me if you plan to visit the Islands. I may have good tips for good birding or snorkeling, especially for O'ahu.
Regards
honu
Blonde Bomber and any other birding or snorkeling enthusiast: you're welcome to contact me if you plan to visit the Islands. I may have good tips for good birding or snorkeling, especially for O'ahu.
Regards
honu
Dec 15, 1999 | 12:33 pm
#396
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Eugene, Oregon
Programs: NW Platinum, Hilton Silver, 3 stays from Starwood Platinum!
Posts: 771
hono,
just came back from Kauai, and my roommates did plenty of snorkeling (they were in heaven). susi is from new zealand, and has been to australia numerous times! i'll be happy to ask questions for you, i'm interested in traveling there also.
ling
just came back from Kauai, and my roommates did plenty of snorkeling (they were in heaven). susi is from new zealand, and has been to australia numerous times! i'll be happy to ask questions for you, i'm interested in traveling there also.
ling
Dec 16, 1999 | 9:59 pm
#397
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 200
17 year old high school senior - Orange County, CA. I'm the son of an AA captain, but have no intentions of becoming a union laborer. I'd condsider being a CEO, though. Early Decision app to Wharton got deferred to regular.
I somehow found this site from www.PlaneBusiness.com. It's kind of interesting. If only non-rev's got frequent flyer miles... I thought I was special because I went to Boston for lunch. You guys just refer to this as a "weekend". It's pretty nice to be a 17 year old and not care that much about first class any more. I guess I like it more because it's not coach. Not Coach is more important than First. Although, I wouldn't refer to rows 4 and 5 on an F100 as "First Class".
Other interests include website design for spending money and I worked at the Gallup Poll for almost a year. I spent a month in France last summer sailing in a world championship.
- Derek
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50 cents an hour not a big Advantage?
Be paid $20-$120 an hour with BePaid.
http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10063853
I somehow found this site from www.PlaneBusiness.com. It's kind of interesting. If only non-rev's got frequent flyer miles... I thought I was special because I went to Boston for lunch. You guys just refer to this as a "weekend". It's pretty nice to be a 17 year old and not care that much about first class any more. I guess I like it more because it's not coach. Not Coach is more important than First.
Although, I wouldn't refer to rows 4 and 5 on an F100 as "First Class". Other interests include website design for spending money and I worked at the Gallup Poll for almost a year. I spent a month in France last summer sailing in a world championship.
- Derek
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50 cents an hour not a big Advantage?
Be paid $20-$120 an hour with BePaid.
http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10063853
Dec 17, 1999 | 9:22 am
#399
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: UK
Programs: reformed ex basic Member
Posts: 3,149
I've been quiet for a while, so better make the most of a relaxed day in the office to introduce myself.
I'm British, 29 year old male, and work for an International Credit Card compay. Easy guess who that is. I am lucky enough to be a 100% traveller. This means I have no home and no costs of living, get to spend all my time in hotels and travel very frequently between locations. The downside is of course that I miss out on the opportunity to be a cat-owner.
I've been doing this for two years now, and have worked on all continents, and clocked up a fair amount of miles (both PremEx and AAdvantage Platinum for 99 being the most useful). I have limited choice over carrier or hotel, so I'm lucky to get to elite levels. So thanks to all of you who share promotions/tips on this board.
Right now I am on a secondment to our Latin American region, and looking forward to spending my Christmas break in Florida. Come early January and it all starts up again....
I'm British, 29 year old male, and work for an International Credit Card compay. Easy guess who that is. I am lucky enough to be a 100% traveller. This means I have no home and no costs of living, get to spend all my time in hotels and travel very frequently between locations. The downside is of course that I miss out on the opportunity to be a cat-owner.
I've been doing this for two years now, and have worked on all continents, and clocked up a fair amount of miles (both PremEx and AAdvantage Platinum for 99 being the most useful). I have limited choice over carrier or hotel, so I'm lucky to get to elite levels. So thanks to all of you who share promotions/tips on this board.
Right now I am on a secondment to our Latin American region, and looking forward to spending my Christmas break in Florida. Come early January and it all starts up again....
Dec 17, 1999 | 12:37 pm
#400
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: SEA
Posts: 3,178
Thanks, GK...
Interesting lifestyle, but curiousity forces me to ask you:
Where do you 'hang' your clothes?
Where do you keep your 'stuff'?
What is 'home base'...the UK?
Sorry, after reading & thinking about it, I'm sure it takes some special effort on your part to maintain this type of life...
Interesting lifestyle, but curiousity forces me to ask you:
Where do you 'hang' your clothes?
Where do you keep your 'stuff'?
What is 'home base'...the UK?
Sorry, after reading & thinking about it, I'm sure it takes some special effort on your part to maintain this type of life...
Dec 17, 1999 | 2:12 pm
#401
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Cheese Country and Koh Samui, Thailand
Programs: DL Diamond MM, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond . www.chicagoseminars.org
Posts: 540
About two weeks ago Santa asked me to post a litte about myself. That alone should tell you a little something about my procrastinating lifestyle.
Let's see....I have always lived in Mississippi, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in Music Education and am now teaching percussion(drums) in the Jackson area.
My mileage life began when I was 18. I was performing with a drum and bugle corps music group from New Jersey and had to fly to rehearsals about every 3 weeks. By the time my first complete year had rolled around, I was Platinum with Delta.....or was it Royal Medallion? Anyway....I was sitting in First-class most of the time and I liked it and I liked the miles so I started going on short weekend trips etc.....then some friends asked me to come to England to teach and I did and now after about 7 years I have over 800,000 base miles to my name. All on Delta. But now with this alliance game going strong and Delta lagging behind, I may have to begin using someone else. But since DL has the best connections to everywhere I have ever needed to go, that may be hard to do.
Anyway.....my only real interests are teaching music and flying/travelling. I am one of those people who really doesn't mind if he flies some place spends a few hours and comes straight back. The fun part was being on the plane. And now that I know about RTW fares things are about to get much more exotic and interesting.
I hope this is enough and I appologize for not getting this posted earlier and for this not being very interesting but hey, now you know that I am not an interesting person.
Oh, one other hobby. Hanging out at a pub or bar. I like to drink and chill. Either beer or clear. No Bourbon or Whiskey for me. Double Vodka on the rocks. No problem. Guiness. No problem. (Did I spell that correctly?) Bourbon and Coke. Send it back.
Chris Moss
Let's see....I have always lived in Mississippi, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in Music Education and am now teaching percussion(drums) in the Jackson area.
My mileage life began when I was 18. I was performing with a drum and bugle corps music group from New Jersey and had to fly to rehearsals about every 3 weeks. By the time my first complete year had rolled around, I was Platinum with Delta.....or was it Royal Medallion? Anyway....I was sitting in First-class most of the time and I liked it and I liked the miles so I started going on short weekend trips etc.....then some friends asked me to come to England to teach and I did and now after about 7 years I have over 800,000 base miles to my name. All on Delta. But now with this alliance game going strong and Delta lagging behind, I may have to begin using someone else. But since DL has the best connections to everywhere I have ever needed to go, that may be hard to do.
Anyway.....my only real interests are teaching music and flying/travelling. I am one of those people who really doesn't mind if he flies some place spends a few hours and comes straight back. The fun part was being on the plane. And now that I know about RTW fares things are about to get much more exotic and interesting.
I hope this is enough and I appologize for not getting this posted earlier and for this not being very interesting but hey, now you know that I am not an interesting person.
Oh, one other hobby. Hanging out at a pub or bar. I like to drink and chill. Either beer or clear. No Bourbon or Whiskey for me. Double Vodka on the rocks. No problem. Guiness. No problem. (Did I spell that correctly?) Bourbon and Coke. Send it back.
Chris Moss
Dec 17, 1999 | 2:25 pm
#402
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: SEA
Posts: 3,178
Thanks Chris...
Sorry the MSY meet never happened last month, we do have two things in common, beer or clear, and a preference for DL. I can't handle any 'brown' spirits, though I've certainly tried over the years. I have been known to drink a LI Tea from time to time, but that doesn't really count.
Don't know if I'll ever get to PM, but have been GM for the last 3 years, and starting my 4th.
Sorry the MSY meet never happened last month, we do have two things in common, beer or clear, and a preference for DL. I can't handle any 'brown' spirits, though I've certainly tried over the years. I have been known to drink a LI Tea from time to time, but that doesn't really count.
Don't know if I'll ever get to PM, but have been GM for the last 3 years, and starting my 4th.
Dec 17, 1999 | 2:30 pm
#403
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Canada
Programs: AC SE 2MM, HH Dd, Bonvoy G; IC S; AA; DL
Posts: 14,496
Thanks Chris, might have to get some tips from you for my daughter who is pursuing a music degree and is interested in teaching music. That a music teacher could afford to travel first class is not in most music student's thoughts.
Dec 18, 1999 | 10:37 am
#405
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: UK
Programs: reformed ex basic Member
Posts: 3,149
Shadow.. I can sense that you are concerned..
1) I travel with one case only. 5 shirts, 2 suits and an assortment of other clothes. That is it. Everything either gets worn until damaged (by hotel laundry) or discarded and replaced by something else. I avoid really cold places, so that makes packing easier. I am also incredibly unfashionable.
2) I used to have a 3 bed house of my own in the UK. It is all in storage. I will be re-united with it one day. All the stuff I buy en-route I send back to my parents in the UK. They use this as a means tracking me down. Either that or thry have opened an ethnic handicraft shop.
3) No homebase at all. I will most likely move within my company at some stage in 2000, but whereever to is not predetermined by a home.
Hope that answers your questions ! Great to have this forum to communicate with while on the road sometimes.
1) I travel with one case only. 5 shirts, 2 suits and an assortment of other clothes. That is it. Everything either gets worn until damaged (by hotel laundry) or discarded and replaced by something else. I avoid really cold places, so that makes packing easier. I am also incredibly unfashionable.
2) I used to have a 3 bed house of my own in the UK. It is all in storage. I will be re-united with it one day. All the stuff I buy en-route I send back to my parents in the UK. They use this as a means tracking me down. Either that or thry have opened an ethnic handicraft shop.
3) No homebase at all. I will most likely move within my company at some stage in 2000, but whereever to is not predetermined by a home.
Hope that answers your questions ! Great to have this forum to communicate with while on the road sometimes.