You can probably buy on the street too for 75% off:)

Hola, Box. Another wedding, another EMS call. Two nights in a row that there has a been a fall with a head impact. Last night was a guest; tonight staff. Just another night at the follies.

It's been 145 years. And I had someone else in my city remark Andrew Jackson wasn't our best president within the past week.

Where would you use the BWB award? I thought you covered HI already and you definitely don't need the stay credit.

Also on the Hyatt side, Amtrak has leaked a 1,000 bonus AGR promotion per night starting July 1 (with longer work-related stays, this is lucrative) and UA had a new promotion with no detail on the MP website last week.

icurhere2 - congrats on completing the 50! Which are your favorites?

We definitely could parlay a sub-$100 stay tonight into a one that would otherwise be a more expensive one before the end of the promo (since I am not out of pocket for Tuesday's stay). The problem is the traffic situation between here and the HP is pretty grim (it could be close to a 2 hour drive), so it is looking pretty unlikely now.

Oh, no! I hope they are both ok.

I think all the states have something to offer. Being from Maryland, I had grown accustomed to some variation from "America in Miniature". Alaska will definitely be the site of longer vacations in the future. Much of Minnesota and Michigan is beautiful. And I miss the days of having an office in SLC. So not including MD, TN, and VA (I've resided in those three) I would say AK, MI, MN, and UT.

In general, I don't see much worth visiting in the southeast (personal preference).

If that's 2 hours each way, I would concur with the unlikely.

I hope you didn't try to board the train at EWR at the bottom of the escalator and try to squeeze in one door? Granted the trains do get back but the first two cars tend to have standing places with room for luggage by the center doors or the middle level on the multi-level trains. The NJT trains vary in lenght from 680 ft to over 1000 feet in lengh so walk along the length of the platform (middle cars are the worst)

Congrats

It's a bit more than just being the Pennsy. Those cities have or had other railroad company stations so that's how they named the station so not to be confused with the other. Manhattan also has the famed Grand Central, Newark also has Broad St. and I don't know what the other Baltimore station was.

I'm lucky enough that all but one airport I've every transited (msp, mke, dtw, phx, ord, iah, lhr, pty) sju is the only one I haven't actually been to the outside world for something real.

I'm not looking forward to getting up for the return flight home tomorrow morning ... At least there seems to be some VDB potential developing on the second flight.

I am about to check HI off my list next sunday.

What flight? I'll give you my "expert" opinion.

It's not a bad state to cross off the list. There were some awe-inspiring parts of my trip to KOA.