Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2017

Hawaii again? Needed to keep my TPs ticking along so that I hit Gold for Life in the next 12 months or so (GfL).

A mighty view in Yellowstone National Park

Blog - Category Archive for Travel

This is the blog page. This is where we share longer articles, which aim to share important concepts and ideas. It is also the general page for showing author, category, tag and time-based archives.

Posts are normally shown in reverse chronological order, in groups of 10, but you can adapt the results using the controls below.

This is an archive showing all posts assigned to category: Travel.

Travel includes posts about all of our holidays, weekend visits and trips

Tier Point Run to Grand Cayman in Dec 2013: Day 1 – London Heathrow (LHR) to Dublin (DUB)

Well having left about 10 mins late from Manchester, and arriving 10 mins early at Heathrow it was disappointing to have to sit on the apron for 15 mins whilst an aircraft got ready to leave the gate we were arriving at. Never mind.

Tier Point Run to Grand Cayman in Dec 2013: Day 1 – Manchester (MAN) to London Heathow (LHR)

The day has arrived - I’ve finished off my last bits of work before the weekend including attendance at the Service Review session this morning where one of my changes had caused a serious delay to financial reporting processing at a leading bank (I’m not proud of this by the way).

Tier Point Run to Grand Cayman in Dec 2013: Day 1 – Prep

By Nige on December 13, 2013 at 7:32 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Grand Cayman in Dec 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | British Airways | DUB | Dublin | GCM | Grand Cayman | Hilton | JFK | LAS | Las Vegas | LHR | London Heathrow | MAN | Manchester | MIA | Miami | New York | Trips | USA

Time to chill and earn some serious miles with BA and AA. This trip will take me from Manchester to Heathrow, over to Dublin where I stay at the airport Hilton, then it’s on to JFK in the morning where I have my interview to complete my Global Entry application.

Tier Point Run to Grand Cayman in Dec 2013

Bit scary this - my first overseas trip by air on my own! At 47! I’ve always had someone in tow to rely on for finding my way around, or picking up things from hotel rooms when I have left them, and there’s no one but myself to rely on.

Holiday to Las Vegas in Dec 2013

By Nige on November 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Las Vegas in Dec 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration

Spent Christmas in 2013 driving around the US South West: Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego and Death Valley.

Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013: Day 19 – Summary

Here’s a summary of our hols - what we liked etc.

Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013: Day 18 – London Heathrow LHR to Manchester MAN (via Brussels BRU)

By Nige on September 8, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: Heathrow | LHR | London | MAN | Manchester

Arrived back at Heathrow earlier than scheduled at 6:15am. We were first off upper deck due to being in row 64 - definitely my favourite row!

Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013: Day 17 – Photos

By Nige on September 7, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | IAD | LHR | London | Washington

Photos from Day 17.

Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013: Day 17 – Washington IAD to London Heathrow LHR

By Nige on September 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Segway | Washington

Didn’t sleep especially well last night. We were up when the alarm went off at 6:30am. Busy day today - careful plan to get us up, into breakfast, onto the shuttle back to the airport.

Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013: Day 16 – Los Angeles LAX to Washington IAD

By Nige on September 6, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Hawaii in Aug 2013 Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | IAD | LAX | Los Angeles | Washington

We agreed to get up at 7am to help move our bodies with the moving time zone - I’ve just got up at 6:30am so I will see what sort of response I get from Vick in 30 mins!