The True Spirit and Meaning of Travel: What We Can Learn From Christmas 2020
The year is 2020; and here we go again: after almost two months of what seems to be non-stop advertisements for endless sales and a continuous onslaught of music in celebration of one of the holiest days for Christians around the world, there are people who believe that the true spirit and meaning of Christmas is lost in a vast sea of commercialism and profit — and I could not help but wonder if a similar sentiment can be analogous to the true spirit and meaning of travel…
…but this year, the proliferation of Christmas everywhere is understandable: after what the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic — and, more importantly, the arguable overreaction and inept mishandling of it as a response and result — has ushered into society in general, many…
Thank You — and Happy Thanksgiving 2020 to You
The year 2020 was quite unique for many people, to put it mildly: the decimation of the entire travel industry worldwide due to the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic, which is thought to have contributed to almost 1.5 million deaths out of greater than 60 million confirmed cases; a record hurricane and tropical weather season in the Atlantic Ocean basin; intense wildfires; insane politics which included a wildly unprecedented election for the office of president in the United States; the continuously abhorrent lack of security of highly sensitive personal information; and…
Santa Claus Spotted on a Motorcycle in Bristol, Tennessee
Santa Claus — who seems to be very patriotic to the United States — was spotted riding a motorcycle eastbound on State Street in Bristol, Tennessee on Christmas Eve 2019 and apparently giving his reindeer some much-needed time off, foregoing Rudolph the Black Lunged Reindeer for a large shiny bright headlight.
What? You don’t know about Rudolph the Black Lunged Reindeer?!? Perhaps you never heard the first refrain of this now-famous Christmas classic…
The True Spirit and Meaning of Travel: What We Can Learn From Christmas 2019
The year is 2019; and here we go again: after almost two months of what seems to be non-stop advertisements for endless sales and a continuous onslaught of music in celebration of one of the holiest days for Christians around the world, there are people who believe that the true spirit and meaning of Christmas is lost in a vast sea of commercialism and profit — and I could not help but wonder if a similar sentiment can be analogous to the true spirit and meaning of travel.
Although the miles and points of frequent travel loyalty programs can indeed be potentially valuable to being able to better afford travel; and while…
Thank You — and Happy Thanksgiving 2019 to You
Please allow me to be one of the first to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving holiday — unless you celebrate the American holiday in the eastern hemisphere, where it is already Thanksgiving as I write this; or if you happen to be Canadian, in which case you already celebrated Thanksgiving on Monday, October 14, 2019.
Similar to last year and the year before, plenty of negative news pertaining to…
Merry Christmas! The FlyerTalk Secret Santa Returns in 2019!
Taking a break from hurricanes and the late summer heat in the northern hemisphere, the Secret Santa Extravaganza occurs yet again on FlyerTalk for the seventeenth consecutive year — and once again, your host, coordinator and organizer is none other than FlyerTalk member wharvey, who founded the concept on FlyerTalk and launched the first thread back in 2003.
The expected minimum on which you should plan to spend on your gift purchase is…
Bali is Closed For the Day. Right Now.
Thursday, March 7, 2018 is the third day of the six days that the Balinese New Year is celebrated; and the entire island of Bali is now as close to completely silent as possible for Nyepi.
“On the 3rd day the entire Island comes to a standstill, with no scheduled incoming or outgoing flights from Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar (DPS)”, according to…
If Santa Claus Traveled By Commercial Airline For Christmas
Kris Kringle stood at the repair shop in disbelief after the mechanic told him that the catalytic converter in his sleigh had been recalled — and that the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officially informed him that using reindeer for such hard labor as to transport the weight of him and the tons of presents to millions of homes around the world was considered cruelty to animals did not help matters.
What could Kris do?
The True Spirit and Meaning of Travel: What We Can Learn From Christmas 2018
The year is 2018; and here we go again: after almost two months of what seems to be non-stop advertisements for endless sales and a continuous onslaught of music in celebration of one of the holiest days for Christians around the world, there are people who believe that the true spirit and meaning of Christmas is lost in a vast sea of commercialism and profit — and I could not help but wonder if a similar sentiment can be analogous to the true spirit and meaning of travel.
Although the miles and points of frequent travel loyalty programs can indeed be potentially valuable to being able to better afford travel; and while elite level status in a frequent travel loyalty program can result in enjoying the opulence of luxurious benefits and amenities — such as fine foods and creature comforts at theoretically no extra cost — they are not…
Thank You — and Happy Thanksgiving 2018 to You
Please allow me to be one of the first to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving holiday — unless you celebrate the American holiday in the eastern hemisphere, where it is already Thanksgiving as I write this; or if you happen to be Canadian, in which case you already celebrated Thanksgiving on Monday, October 8, 2018.
Similar to last year, plenty of negative news pertaining to…
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