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Sitting just over Bucharest now, BBK > HEL AY142. We flew over Burma, India, a dogleg into Pakistan at Rahim Yar Khan, just south of Kabul, Turkmenistan, Baku, Tbilisi. Shortly heading over one of my favourite spots; Cluj-Napoca. Smooth sailing, but reading The Age online is a bit sobering.

I fell into the Marriott system pre-2000's working in North Carolina, and for years regretted not using other chains. One regret was not working my way up the Sheraton group, but when the merger happened, I could not be happier. Funny (strange) thing was just the merger was happening, they...

Have a flight next week SIN > BKK, still on at the moment, but I was in "planning mode" to get from SIN > KUL early morning Aug 23. The flight was there two days ago, but it's been scrubbed now. It was perfect timing to meet up with the SKN flight, bugger!

Apologies for "photobombing" this thread, but seeing Dehradun in a title brought back memories of an amazing time at the Westin which had just opened, and I was one of the first guests. Amazing room and views of the world below. Had a break from working in Delhi and doing bird-watching from the...

How could I ever get rid of the ol' bag! I was about to put the high pressure spray-gun over it recently, but the daughters stopped me. I did a quick recount and its done about 1.3 million miles on roughly 560 cargo holds!

The Trivago ads have made these pages numerous times, so no use regurgitating old comments, but interesting on my last trip, it's wall-to-wall repeat of their current Aus-played ad. Just back from US/Canada and turned the TV on over there and it's the same ad but funny, different room prices...

What old suitcase? Just returned last night, trip 46 with my Samsonite Aeris. On second set of wheels and handle, 1.2 million miles and counting.

Finally home after working in Brazil and a few more "birding jaunts". The condor's were the highlight but there were others that I thought I would share, the Inca terns were also amazing. 117 extra species to the life list, so not a bad working holiday.

I shoot with an Olympus OMD-1 with a 300mm F4.0 lens. Love the 4/3's system and the ability to carry an equivalent 600mm lens in such a compact size. I'm a little worried that OM Systems might disappear so I'm stocking up on lens.

An old aviation expert.......

Touchdown ..........

Nose up......

Undercarriage down......

On final approach

Coming around to line up

As has been the trend over the past few years, adding extra days to do some birding whilst on business trips, this time South America. One sight I always wanted to see was the Andean Condor and got the chance on Thursday, 12 hours after arriving on the QF flight ex SYD. It was amazing to see...

Or trying to read which is shampoo, conditioner or body gel when you get into the hotel shower with no glasses on. The writing always seems to be so small.

Absolutely agreed, all churning over the business section of the aircraft. Bugger loyalty..........

So, I know it's a very "worn out" topic on AFF, but just look at the loyalty we give the big red roo, and then they set the bar so high for LTP. I'm sure the mathematically minded former CEO worked his formula on 5 x LTG + 5,000 SC just to keep the b#$%$#s honest......

When you look at the figure and data, the goal doesn't seem too bad, but reality hits when you do the calculations/projections!!!! And when you are there, you're too bloody old to fly!