Summer/Fall travel plans shaping up.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-26-2017, 11:50 PM

Oh, I know that one... 1986.

chrisinhouston · 06-15-2017, 10:04 PM

The wife is headed home from her first trip to Namibia. She had a 2 hour layover in Johannesburg but wouldn't you know her plane from Namibia to Johannesburg was delayed well over an hour so she had to run from the arrival gate to the departure and barely made it. She should land in Dulles tomorrow morning and then head home to Houston.

I plan to go back on the next trip, July 3rd or so. Be there for 3 weeks and then 4 weeks in September into October. We plan to go to Etosha National Park in Namibia at the end of this coming trip and maybe Botswana on the next trip. Trying to figure out what camera gear to take!

From the looks of FlightAware.com she just left the refuel stop in Senegal.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-16-2017, 12:05 AM

Did you tell her to take snapshots or screen grabs so you can figure out what stuff you'll need?

chrisinhouston · 06-16-2017, 08:54 PM

My wife got home this morning and we looked at ticket options for next month. She says we can afford my ticket in Business Class but she plans to hit up her boss as I will do the driving to and from the mine in Namibia each day so why shouldn't they just pay for my ticket.

So we found a slightly different route this next trip. All on Lufthansa but booked through United on a code share that gets us all the miles and PQM and PQ$ to actually move up in status. The cool thing is we fly from Houston to Frankfurt and also the same on the return on the new A380-800 double decker jet. Business class there is the second deck. And on the flights to and from Frankfurt to Johannesburg we fly a Boinb 747-8 series and will be in the smaller upper deck Business class section as well. Total price for the trip was $4944 which is $3000 less than my wife just paid to fly SAA on her last trip. Why the heck to the ticket prices change that much from day to day?

Now to get a car booked. I'd like to get a small 4x4 for the rough side roads that one sometimes encounters there.

05-26-2017, 11:50 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Oh, I know that one... 1986. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-15-2017, 10:04 PM	#2
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	The wife is headed home from her first trip to Namibia. She had a 2 hour layover in Johannesburg but wouldn't you know her plane from Namibia to Johannesburg was delayed well over an hour so she had to run from the arrival gate to the departure and barely made it. She should land in Dulles tomorrow morning and then head home to Houston. I plan to go back on the next trip, July 3rd or so. Be there for 3 weeks and then 4 weeks in September into October. We plan to go to Etosha National Park in Namibia at the end of this coming trip and maybe Botswana on the next trip. Trying to figure out what camera gear to take! From the looks of FlightAware.com she just left the refuel stop in Senegal. Attached Images

06-16-2017, 12:05 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Did you tell her to take snapshots or screen grabs so you can figure out what stuff you'll need? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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06-16-2017, 08:54 PM	#4
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	My wife got home this morning and we looked at ticket options for next month. She says we can afford my ticket in Business Class but she plans to hit up her boss as I will do the driving to and from the mine in Namibia each day so why shouldn't they just pay for my ticket. So we found a slightly different route this next trip. All on Lufthansa but booked through United on a code share that gets us all the miles and PQM and PQ$ to actually move up in status. The cool thing is we fly from Houston to Frankfurt and also the same on the return on the new A380-800 double decker jet. Business class there is the second deck. And on the flights to and from Frankfurt to Johannesburg we fly a Boinb 747-8 series and will be in the smaller upper deck Business class section as well. Total price for the trip was $4944 which is $3000 less than my wife just paid to fly SAA on her last trip. Why the heck to the ticket prices change that much from day to day? Now to get a car booked. I'd like to get a small 4x4 for the rough side roads that one sometimes encounters there.

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