Back from Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo this afternoon. Had a 3-hour delay getting out of Houston due to ridiculous amounts of fog but thankfully no problems returning. ZIH is a tiny airport where you walk out on the airfield, and checked baggage has to be inspected manually since they don’t have a huge million dollar X-ray machine at … This is for the people of the sun
Should be sick of driving at this point, but I’m not. Drove to Luling on Saturday to try out City Market (not the one in Houston). Really nice ribs, but it seems I am too accustomed to Goode Company brisket and sausage links. That is somewhat disappointing, but probably a good thing in the long … …
U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports. Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday. [snip] But David Cole, a law … …
LAX sux. Despite getting to the airport an hour prior to our flight, we came rather close to missing it as a result of the utterly incompetent manner in which the airport screening lines were configured. Can’t wait to pick up the little guy tomorrow morning. Hurrah!
Found a pretty good map of Rio de Janeiro while trying to locate Nova Iguaçu. The killings of 30 people in this city just last week were attributed to rogue policemen, but the incident was largely overshadowed by the death of the pope.
Can’t book a domestic reward flight on Continental at the 25000 mile level without a Saturday night stay. Haven’t seen this documented anywhere on the OnePass web site, but I confirmed this with a customer service rep recently.
Uploaded most of the pictures from Rio De Janeiro. Haven’t gotten around to scaling them yet so for now they are on Fortunecity. Weather was overcast and slightly rainy until Sunday.
Rio was a ton of fun, but it’s nice to be back home. Thought the weather would be rainy and cloudy all weekend long, but luckily, there was no rain at all yesterday, and for a few hours the sun was actually out. As expected, a lot of people were wearing thongs and showing lots … …
Interestingly, I discovered last night that my Cingular prepaid cell phone works also in the California GSM area (Los Angeles specifically). Incoming calls didn’t ring through (not exactly a thorough test though), but I was able to make outgoing calls okay, which in itself is pretty great.
OnePass program changes for January 1, 2004. Certain economy fare tickets (Q, S, T, and L class) will only earn 50% Elite mileage. If you purchase online, you can still get full mileage in 2004. Hmmm.