Flyin' Brian

The Midway

After a considerable amount of time avoiding hotels, I seem to be finding myself in them quite often these days. In the past couple weeks, I have been in San Diego three times. This most recent one, however, actually occurred during daytime, so I could go out and explore a bit. I elected to check…
Po-Town and the Hudson Valley

It was not easy to get from Houston to the Hudson Valley. Our initial plan to go to Detroit and connect did not look promising, so we went to Atlanta instead. Once there, we did not get on our intended flight to White Plains, and we weren’t going to get on the next one either.…
I’m in . . . Waco?

Nicole and I have had a fairly busy 2019, having found ourselves in places like Central America, Africa, and Europe multiple times throughout the year. There were a couple months here and there where we didn’t go on any big trips, and were in places like New York or Florida, (which as everyone knows) don’t…
Vancouver, eh?

I do realize I now post like twice a year, but thanks to my ever-improving seniority, I’m getting mostly locals, and rarely have an overnight. If I do get one, it’s often quite brief. I did end up getting a long-ish Vancouver overnight, arriving around noon and not departing until the following morning. Our hotel…
Why Your Airport Sucks: London Heathrow Edition

As a nonrev traveler, one’s plans often change, and although it may seem that we’re always able to pull something together, it isn’t always easy. When we got in line to check-in for Lufthansa to Frankfurt this week, we discovered that the flight had become oversold as well as pretty much every other European airline…
Why Your Airport is Actually the Worst: Newark Edition

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here, and much longer since I’ve submitted an entry into my “Airports that Suck” category. In the past, with Detroit and Cincinnati, I had expressed a lot of opinions. I am going to do something crazy here and just use cold hard facts . . .…
The Duke’s Dastardly Deeds

Evidently I haven’t posted since the end of August. Since that post, I have gotten married, flown to five new countries, and acquired a Roomba. As a whole, I’ve had a pretty good schedule, which means I typically don’t have that many overnights since I like to be…
G-g-g-ghosts?!!!

At least from my own experience, trying to get a standby seat on a direct flight from Newark to Los Angeles is a near impossibility. Out of the previous five times I have been in New Jersey visiting Nicole, I have ended up in the jumpseat five times. . . including one time where I…
Inside the Bo-Zone

As a result of my new-found ability to bid for schedules I want AND actually get what I ask for, I have not been doing a lot of multi-day trips, and thus no overnights. I have not had an overnight in months. Months, I tell you! Furthermore, any days off have been taken up with going…
Bricole Take On Guanajuato

After months of tired and outlandish excuses like, “I have to work…,” Nicole finally gave in and joined me on a red-eye flight to Léon, Mexico. Nicole, incidentally has been to some pretty interesting places around the globe ranging from Sri Lanka to Albania and Bosnia. Until last week, she had not been to Canada.…