Man lands on Moon, gets confused about airlines…
Sep08

Man lands on Moon, gets confused about airlines…

Via The Points Guy yesterday, Buzz Aldrin headed to Nepal for the first time! He’s heading to speak to a group of students at the Everest Science Center in celebration of National Science Day.  He instagrammed a picture of himself heading to Nepal in, you guessed it, Emirates First Class.  Because once you’ve been cramped in that small Apollo 11 capsule, then you absolutely have to have a little more room!   Heading...

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Buenos Aires: Opera, Cemeteries, and Tango
Aug30

Buenos Aires: Opera, Cemeteries, and Tango

Buenos Aires, “the Paris of South America,” is the Capital of Buenos Aires and a huge freakin city. Upwards of 14,000,000 people live in the general area, and it shows.  When you fly into town, the city just seems to go on and on and on.  The city is divided up, much like New York, into many distinct areas that are diverse and totally different from each other. In the interest of saving time, we limited our day...

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Review: Sheraton Libertador Buenos Aires
Aug30

Review: Sheraton Libertador Buenos Aires

Since we were in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games, and we’d gone through Santiago de Chile to get there, we figured we could do a stop over in Buenos Aires – since we were soooo close anyway – and enjoy that beautiful city. Also, it gave us the chance to try an amazing Aerolineas Argentinas premium product. We had previously stayed at the InterContinental, the Holiday Inn Express, the Hotel Two and the Sheraton...

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Rio 2016:  Men’s Water Polo and Men’s Gymnastics
Aug29

Rio 2016: Men’s Water Polo and Men’s Gymnastics

After a super short rest (because the opening ceremony let out at midnight) we headed over to the Olympic Stadium area for some Water Polo and Gymnastics! I’m gonna just shut up and post the pics, and let you enjoy the games, just like we did. Considering I can barely touch my toes, I’m always impressed by what these gymnasts can do.  We were pretty lucky to have snagged tickets to these events, so I hope you’ve...

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AR2295 – Rio to Buenos Aires, No Class
Aug29

AR2295 – Rio to Buenos Aires, No Class

I had high expectations for this flight since I had flown Aerolineas Argentinas multiple times in economy class but never before one of their premium products. I couldn’t have been more surprised! We booked our Club Condor class tickets through Delta at 25K SkyMiles SkyPesos each ticket one way for our friend Bruce and myself, and Jon paid $500 for his – yes, I CRINGE as I type that out but it was the...

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Opening Ceremony, Rio 2016
Aug26

Opening Ceremony, Rio 2016

The day has finally arrived!  After months of waiting and anticipation, we finally made our way to the Maracaná stadium for the Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Tickets for the event were not cheap, there were four levels of tickets (A/B/C/D) and C/D tickets were sold out.  A/B tickets (the best tickets in the best seats) were available at 4,000 and 3,000 Reals respectively.  We bought the 3,000 tickets,...

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You’re Invited to a Party!
Aug25

You’re Invited to a Party!

And you don’t even need to bring a gift! In celebration of their 100 year anniversary, the National Park Service will be holding events and opening their doors to everyone in hopes of engaging the population and creating awareness. The events will be in the following themes: Engaging Diverse Audiences and the Next Generation, Bringing Parks to the People, Making History, and Celebrating Together, and have been taking place in...

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Olympic Screw-ups to Remember
Aug18

Olympic Screw-ups to Remember

By now you have probably heard about most of the Olympic flops, but I bet you haven’t heard about these… So here we are, freshly returned from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and we have finally finished downloading the thousands of pictures we took during our stay there. We’re back, safe and sound, just like we expected, but we wanted to take a minute to talk about all the other incidents. First one that comes to mind is...

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Rio 2016 – NoMasCoach style!
Aug15

Rio 2016 – NoMasCoach style!

As many of you, our loyal readers know, we had the opportunity to head down to Rio de Janeiro just a few weeks ago for the Rio 2016 Olympics.  We booked everything fairly last minute so it’s quite a miracle that we managed to get everything lined up so perfectly. Over the next week and change we’ll bring you some of the reviews of the first and business class products that we flew along with some first hand...

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Gastronomy in Basque Country, Pais Vasco, Spain
Aug12

Gastronomy in Basque Country, Pais Vasco, Spain

A short while back, I had the opportunity to hear Rick Steves speak in Seattle, and among the topic that he was discussing was the concept of visiting “second cities.” In other words, while most people visit Rome, Paris, Madrid, and Berlin, they don’t visit Naples, Marseille, Bilbao, and Cologne. It’s just human nature to want to go to the big city. After all, it’s the one that most people have heard about and most of your friends...

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