AFF Trip Report of the Month

[Lat34]

Really enjoyed your TR @PrezRegan, congrats

 

[Flyfrequently]

Congratulations @PrezRegan enjoyed tagging along especially with HLO.

 

[VPS]

My congrats also @PrezRegan I was in awe of what you achieved.

 

[ellen10]

Congratulations @PrezRegan I really enjoyed your trip report

 

[AFF Editor]

Congratulations to our new December winner of 'Trip Report of the Month', @Scarlett for this trip report:

Thread 'Guided by the Stars (Alliance)'

Sep 25, 2024

I'm not a capture-photos-whilst-travelling kind of person, so not sure whether this will become a 'proper' trip report or not.

With that disclaimer out of the way, the family Scarlett is travelling over to Europe for the school holidays and because I'm not a normal person, we're taking a slightly convoluted routing. I have applied the AFF adage of why fly direct when you can connect and maybe stretched it a little.

GCMAP shows my flights as:


This is an 18-leg journey (return) to get to and from our destinations: the Portuguese Atlantic islands of the Azores (PDL) and then...

• Scarlett
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[AFF Editor]

If you haven't already, make sure you cast your vote for Trip Report of the Year! Voting closes next Monday, 16 December:

Thread 'Vote now for the 2024 AFF 'Trip Report of the Year''

Dec 6, 2024

Cast your vote now!​

In June, we introduced a new "Trip Report of the Month" award on AFF. Each month, the AFF editorial team chooses their favourite AFF member trip report from the previous month, with the winner receiving a special banner on their profile (which also links to their winning trip report) for that month.

We're doing this to recognise and show our appreciation to AFF members who've put a lot of time and effort into writing sensational trip reports that have informed and entertained us all.

As promised, we're now opening up voting for AFF...

• AFF Editor
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[Pushka]

If you haven't already, make sure you cast your vote for Trip Report of the Year! Voting closes next Monday, 16 December:

Thread 'Vote now for the 2024 AFF 'Trip Report of the Year''

Dec 6, 2024

Cast your vote now!​

In June, we introduced a new "Trip Report of the Month" award on AFF. Each month, the AFF editorial team chooses their favourite AFF member trip report from the previous month, with the winner receiving a special banner on their profile (which also links to their winning trip report) for that month.

We're doing this to recognise and show our appreciation to AFF members who've put a lot of time and effort into writing sensational trip reports that have informed and entertained us all.

As promised, we're now opening up voting for AFF...

• AFF Editor
• Replies: 14
• Forum: Trip Reports

Is this for reports that ended or started in 2024? Oh I see you've preselected just a few. Hmm. Jury's out for me.

 

[AFF Editor]

Is this for reports that ended or started in 2024? Oh I see you've preselected just a few. Hmm. Jury's out for me.

The finalists are all the 'Trip Report of the Month' winners for this year, since we started awarding this prize in June. The winners of that are generally trip reports that were completed in the previous month.

 

[AFF Editor]

As announced here, @RooFlyer was last year's winner of 'Trip Report of the Year':

Post in thread 'Vote now for the 2024 AFF 'Trip Report of the Year''

Dec 18, 2024

Thanks to everyone who voted. Voting has now closed and the winner is @RooFlyer for this trip report:


Congratulations and we'll be in touch with RooFlyer to award the 1-year AFF Platinum membership!

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[AFF Editor]

Now that it's January 2025, it's time for a new Trip Report of the Month. The monthly winners from this year will all go in the running to win 'Trip Report of the Year 2025' in December.

And our winner for this month is @woodyren with this excellent trip report covering western China:

Thread 'Xinjiang adventures. Deserts, grasslands and glaciers.'

Dec 18, 2024

Very late on this TR as we have just returned to Australia again after an extensive year of travel. We have probably spent around 7 months on the road and sea this year.

This particular TR covers 14 days in the middle of a much longer trip that included a cruise from Brisbane to Vancouver, flights and stays in Taiwan, Korea and China, a train trip from China to Laos, cruises and travel to other provinces while in China over a period of five months.

Rather than do a very lengthy TR covering the whole trip I have decided to break it into a few specific ones. The first report and probably...

• woodyren
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This was hard to pick because a lot of AFF members have written some great trip reports over the holidays. Many of these have been very high quality. It's great to see and the entire AFF community really appreciates the effort that people put into these!

 

[tgh]

Congratulations to @woodyren for his wonderful "off piste" TR of a place few westerners will see

 

[VPS]

Congratulations @woodyren - well deserved

 

[RooFlyer]

I always enjoy Woodyren’s trip reports on some places that I’m unlikely to go to

 

[ellen10]

Congratulations Woodyren, trip reports are always interesting to read.

 

[Pushka]

Nice work @woodyren

 

[AFF Editor]

Choosing this month's Trip Report of the Month winner was particularly difficult, because there have been multiple really excellent trip reports over the holiday period. But we couldn't go past @Human's absolute cracker of a trip report, covering their "trip of a lifetime" space-themed tour of the USA, and even ending in Emirates First Class.

Congratulations @Human, and you can read the winning trip report here:

Thread 'A Boyhood Dream Fulfilled: Space-Geek Tour of the USA'

Dec 31, 2024

As a child, I was obsessed with space travel. One of my earliest memories of school is my Kindergarten teacher sharing the news of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz joint mission. I remember my fascination and excitement a year later when the Viking landers sent back the first ever colour photographs from the surface of Mars.

I have two enduring memories of the 1980s: first, poring over the photos of distant planets and moons from the Voyager space probes, while impatiently waiting for the next planetfall (Jupiter 1979, Saturn 1981, Uranus 1986, Neptune 1989 … sadly and frustratingly, no Pluto)...

• Human
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[RooFlyer]

Great choice!

 

[Flyfrequently]

Congratulations @Human really enjoyed your TR

 

[VPS]

I would have been shocked if @Human didn’t win it.

Well deserved

 

[Human]

Thank you so much! I am genuinely honoured.

I had a lot of fun writing the TR and I can honestly say that writing it added to the enjoyment of an absolutely awesome trip. I’m humbled that others have enjoyed reading it!