North America Hotels

A factoid about Quantas (besides the fact that per Rainman, it's the world's safest airline) is this: When Cyclone Tracy devastated the town of Darwin at Christmas 1974, Qantas established a world record for the most people ever embarked on a single aircraft when they evacuated 673 people on a single Boeing 747 flight. Gee, I hope they have forgotten or at least forgiven me! Hello from Sydney. The Quay West hotel is a truely magnificant property right downtown, 3 blocks vfrom the cruise terminal. The flight was another story mate. Seems to me if you go to all that trouble to build the ...

When trying to plan a getaway for seven people over four days many things can happen Because of business he has to attend to in Texas, Mike is driving down instead of flying. Our Friday segway tour is now scheduled for Sunday since its going to be bitter cold with snow on Friday. Then mid day Today our Garmin quit working. That changes lots of things. We make it to Tulsa on time with minor aggrevations. Quick flight to Dallas and then presto.... we're in San Antonio in our rental van meeting Mike at the Magnolia Pancake Haus. Great pancakes, great breakfast even if it was noon. From there we ...

It’s been a long while since I traveled with my parents and my brother’s family to Orlando this summer. I was busy learning Linux and its applications. There were so much to learn and I was very lucky to have a few jobs related to it. Learning Linux was like opening a door to a completely new world to me. Now when almost all is settled, it’s already winter time. Just when I thought there was not much to experience besides skiing and skating, my favorite writer, Dan Brown, released a new book called “The Los Symbol”, a ton of thanks to him, I got the book as soon as I heard of its existence. ...