http://strandby.flyblog.com Adventures of Flying Standby Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:44:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So we're going to try to make TWO Europe trips next month in December. One to a Cristkindl Markt (Christmas Market) in Germany and on another weekend a trip to Paris to see what France is like during the Christmas season. It was kind of a pain bidding my December ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/11/17/december/ It looks like we're going to use our dotMac account because it'll be a little quicker to update while on the fly. Check out the blog link at: nonrevcentral.com (right side, look for "Oktoberfest 06 Live!" link) or surf to: Oktoberfest Podcast Or, if the link doesn't cut 'n paste for you correctly: http://web.mac.com/taylordouglas/iWeb/TaylorDouglas and ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/09/25/video-pod-cast-of-trip/ We're going to be traveling to Germany in another 10 days to experience our first Oktoberfest. We've been to Oktoberfests before, well. Actually, let me qualify that statement. The first "Oktoberfest" we went to together was "OctoberWEST" in Prescott, Arizona which, by the time I came back as an alumni, was ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/09/12/t-minus-a-week-and-a-half/ This is a post dated entry, but I figure late is better than never. I didn't even finish it actually, or remember what happened later that flight, but I figure it might be worth a read. If not, don't! :) My trip finished at 1600 in Salt Lake, the Skywest flight ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/06/07/the-commute/ Today we're on a train back to the Duesseldorf airport. It's a very full train with lots of young people. it's 7am on a sunday morning and it seems like all of the teenage girls that were standing in front of our hotel are now mobbing the train. I ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/28/escape-from-deutschland/ Our friends are going to drive us from Cologne to a town near Essen where one of them is from. Apparently it's a very small town but Kristie and I have a eye for adventure so we'll see. It's apparently a small village with only a few thousand ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/28/day-four-small-towns-and-wtf-is-tokio-hotel/ So here I sit, typing away at the blog and Kristie is slowly showing signs of life at noon. It's raining again this morning so she's not missing much. We eventually got out of the room after an extended nap -- staying up until daybreak partying with a bunch of ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/26/day-three/ About an hour from landing, usually somewhere over Ireland, they'll serve breakfast. 99.9% of the time, you have a choice between cereal with fruit or a cheese omelet with sausage and potatoes. A few years ago, we had an extraordinarily loud flight attendant on a flight to Paris that during ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/25/day-two/ Departing home at 4:30am means that Kristie needs to wake up at 3:00am in order to get all of those 'girlie' things done and I'll usually drag out of bed about 4:00am. The flight to Atlanta was uneventful. Long, boring, rode in the back by the engine. Considering ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/24/day-one/ Usually the night before the trip there reaches a point where you stop worrying about the loads and realize that flying standby has no guarantees. The best method that we've found is picking a city, researching a "Plan A" or a "Plan B" in case we're not able to get to ... http://strandby.flyblog.com/2006/05/23/the-night-before/