After a year of scouring hotel websites, reading travel magazines and blogs, camping out on the United Airlines website to nab the best reward flights and consulting a few travel experts, my niece, Kelly, and I are headed around the world June 1! Kelly is wrapping up her doctorate in music and we decided a trip was the perfect way to celebrate. Since she has two months off from teaching high school orchestra, we figured “let’s go for it!”
On our journey, every flight over four hours is free and BUSINESS CLASS! Yes, free!!! Well, we did have to pay the usual taxes, but I have become a slut for frequent flyer points by buying everything possible on United credit cards. (That’s a story for another post.)
We’ll visit Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Dubai, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Turkey and Portugal.
Boy am I envious, since there’s no way possible for me to do any traveling in the near future. Will enjoy seeing these awesome places, virtually from your posts. Have a wonderful and safe journey. Looking forward to your pictures and posts!!
Edwina, thanks for the comment. Should be wild and crazy, but we’ll keep you posted!
I’m excited for you and Kelley and look forward to your posts. You two stay out of police stations–going to miss you
At 160 something—depending on what you call a country—I see that I am going to have to PICK UP MY PACE TO STAY IN THE RACE.
Thanks for your helpful advice on Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I was, literally, blown away there.
In a few weeks, I’ll be in Greenland watching the ice melt. I hope the polar bears will be as friendly and the Antarctic penguins were.
Now I have to figure out how to create a blog before I begin my next round the world on June 19, my 67th birthday.
Bon voyage.
Have fun, Terry, and thanks for your inspiration.
Hey Martin, So nice to hear from you. You are way ahead of me, so keep going! I’m so glad you were able to make it to Antarctica. It’s a pretty amazing place and flying over is so much easier than a 10-day crossing in a boat. Pretty treacherous seas down there. Let me know how Greenland is. Iceland is on my list, but I hadn’t thought much about Greenland. Have fun playing with the penguins and keep in touch. Terry