Rocket Science

I’ve been displaying selected photos in a one-at-a-time or slideshow format in the sidebar of my site for awhile now. I’ve been rotating the album every 3-6 months. As I get more albums uploaded, I’ll switch out the albums more often.

Holiday Cards 2008

Photos from my travels in 2008. I intended to use these with my holiday cards.

42 Photos

Holiday Cards 2007

Photos from my travels in 2007. I used these with my holiday cards.

37 Photos

Holiday Cards 2004

Photos from my travels in 2004. I used these with my holiday cards.

35 Photos

Tulips 2007

Tulips, Keukenhof, Netherlands, 2007

37 Photos

Holiday Cards 2009

Photos from my travels in 2009. I used these with my holiday cards.

47 Photos

India Flora and Fauna 2009

India flora and fauna from 2009

60 Photos

 

This is an update to my Holiday Cards 2003-2008 post.

I read about this in two places today, but the Wall Street Journal had the best news:

Source: snoll

Penalties Ahead

The new rule adopted by the Department of Transportation sets fines of as much as $27,500 a passenger when airlines leave fliers stuck on a plane on the ground for more than three hours. Based on a delayed plane carrying 120 passengers, the fine could be as much as $3.3 million.

Source: Mitchell, J. and Carey, S. (2009, December 21). “U.S. to Fine Airlines for Tarmac Delays, Impose 3-Hour Wait Limit“. Retrieved on December 21, 2009, from Wall Street Journal Website: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126140826775100235.html

It’s about time if you ask me!

This is all Tom’s fault.

(And this might help as folks prepare to fly for the holidays.)

Here’s a nice writeup from the Wall Street Journal on The 10 Rules of the Road for Air Travel .

(Here’s another related article at CNN.)

Here’s my current list of Where in the U.S. and World have I been…I’ll be keeping a Where in the World page updated with future travels.

Where in the United States…

I’ve visited 38 states (76%).

Where in the World…

I’ve visited 22 countries (9.77%).

I’ve been looking to find a site to do this for a while now, I finally found one I liked! I’m using Douwe Osinga’s sites to Create your own visited map of The United States and Create your own visited map of The World. I also thought about using World66 and TripIt.

Photo Credit: zonagirl

Privileged Cattle to the Front Please

An old joke about the boarding process on Southwest Airlines is that the passengers are like cattle, mooooo.

Now, apparently, well-to-do cattle can pay $10 to board sooner.

Welcome to the nickel and diming of the the airline industry. With the industry earning $1.15 billion from baggage fees in 2008, they continue to come up with a variety of fees to annoy their passengers.