To Land in Ko Samui or Not…that was the Question (or flight scare) today!

In all my years of flying today was an airport landing first! Vanessa and I left Phuket, Thailand for a quick 45 minute flight over to the island of Ko Samui. It’s a decent sized international airport and the airport takes in many flights a day. As we were going in to land, I could […]

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Snafu’s, Illegal events and other odd situations

No matter how careful I am, or how much planning, checking and re-checking I do…I always run into some sort of travel snafu.  I have even been known to run into some illegal situations and try my best to smile and work my way out of them.  As these situations tend to have funny stories […]

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Asia to Australia – drama once again…

For some reason, whenever I have connected with one of the 5 segments of my round the world ticket, drama comes up and this 4th leg was just as difficult that I had to recap for the memories and laughs for years to come. Notice the times of all this as it adds to the fun/drama. […]

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Snafu #2 – China Visa, RTW Ticket and where to next? (2008)

I guess when airlines are involved and flights get canceled or my round the world ticket (RTW) is about to become void (if I miss a flight), that makes for a pretty big snafu.  This one counts as Snafu #2 (first one was back in May with Norway flights). Well this snafu was about to happen and […]

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