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Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

How is all of this travel booked for you paywise? Are you compensated extra for the time spent traveling? Is it like 'time and a half' overtime? Or are most of you on a sales commission scheme rather than salary anyway?

# ¿ Nov 22, 2012 04:54

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 23:39

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Flying United between Hong Kong and San Francisco is garbage. Old 747 where they don't even have personal TVs for a 12-14 hour flight. It was cheap, but never again! I'll pay the extra $300 for Cathay just so I have something interesting to do.

Too bad Cathay goes through LAX and SFO is so much more pleasant.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 23:51

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Small White Dragon posted:

Cathay flies SFO-HKG.

Do they??? I'll have to look into that. I thought they only flew through the Mighty OneWorld Hub that is the Kafkaesque nightmare of LAX.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 20:42

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

caberham posted:

Now I'm hooked on flying and will try to rank up one world status.

Just be careful about Cathay

# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 20:34

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Also those tiny rear end private planes suck for long haul flights. First class commercial is way more comfortable.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 17:15

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

It does look pretty nice, but I also see the cabin is only 6'3" high (at its highest point, it's a curved aircraft fuselage of course). I'm an inch taller than that and I'd think it'd start to get pretty claustrophobic after hour 6 or so.

But then I guess I won't knock it till I've tried it.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 22:18

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Yes. I'm now setting up my VPN stuff after arriving and it's a lot more annoying than it needs to be. Just test everything before you leave Free Internet Land.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 02:04

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Astrill is satisfactory, but I wish I had gone with Vypr.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 03:41

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

I've become a big fan of Google Flights since it got me a much cheaper and better trans-pacific travel route than Kayak did.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 09:22

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Honestly I have no idea. I was just trying to go CAN-WAS and Google Flights with its slick GUI got me a route through Hong Kong that was United all the way with only two stops and about a grand cheaper than the best I could get from Kayak which was 3 stops.

Granted, anything to do with Chinese airports sucks but I was surprised at the difference.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 15:00

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Midjack posted:

gently caress pretty much any car driven by someone else. Rentals can go to hell too.

That's why I travel exclusively by hoverboard, helicopter and personal teleporter.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 06:14

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Any tips for a favorite hotel in Washington DC? Everything in downtown seems really old and not renovated in years even at the high end.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 00:40

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Work won't pay for sharing economy stuff like that.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 11:54

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

I know some guys who swear by melatonin and other guys who have some quasi-legal Thai quackery poo poo that is related to tiger balm that you inhale through your nose (it is not cocaine).

I swear by melatonin. It blew me away when I first tried it because I'm a mega skeptic who thinks all natural supplement crap is all bullshit, but melatonin has me conked out in a half an hour without fail.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 14:17

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

I did SFO-PVG in a three piece once.

It wasn't too bad in United BusinessFirst, but I wish I had brought a change of clothes.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 05:19

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Excuse me, sir, do you have a minute to talk about Open and Fair Skies?

# ¿ Nov 24, 2015 02:08

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 23:39

Deep State of Mind: Jul 30, 2006; "It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."; Fun Shoe

Midjack posted:

Contact the hotel directly. You can check in that late most places if you reserve the night (so this would be reserve for the night you're flying) and give them a credit card. Yeah, you'll be paying for a few hours of hotel room you're not using, but it's worth $80 to me to take a shower and not have to stumble around an airport in a sleepy haze looking for somewhere to nap.

Sometimes it works out for you. If you're staying in Seoul, you won't get there till like 7am anyway and if the hotel's not booked up, they'll let you check in in my experience anyway.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 13:57

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