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• Earn Up To 60,000 AAdvantage Miles On Flights To Europe
• Go west: Best Western offers members of the Northwest WorldPerks program 250 bonus miles, for a total of 500 miles, when they stay at one of the chain's hotels Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Get another 250 bonus miles, for a total of 750 miles, for stay at any Best Western in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee or Wisconsin in the same time. For Best Western hotels in Minnesota, promotion lasts to the end of February.
• Delta and American Express Introduce 'Always Double Miles' Feature on Delta SkyMiles Cards
• You've Got Millions Of Miles!
• Dollar Offers East Coast Rentals At $17.99 A Weekend Day
• Double AAdvantage Miles On New Nonstop Flights
• New Partners Thrifty Car Rental & US Airways Offer Triple Miles
• Triple Dividend Miles From Thrifty Car Rental
• Extra: TWA Aviators members who book four round trips online at twa.com by Dec. 31 get 25,000 bonus points. Go to site for details of extra points on fewer round trips (offer 85104).
• Northwest Offers Up To 40,000 Bonus Miles With New Promos

• Southwest Offers $99 Intro Fares For Baltimore-Salt Lake City Service
• United Airlines Cuts Fares 20-40% for Alaskans; Flying to Lower 48 States
• Special Low Fares for Fall Eurostar Travel Announced by Rail Europe
• Caribbean Travel on Sale from American
• Delta Shuttle Fares for $99 R/T
• Lufthansa Web Specials Offer RTs For The Price Of Their Flight Numbers
• Stay Three Nights and Get a Fourth Free Night At La Quinta Inns and Inn and Suites
• US Airways Reduces Ticket Prices for U.S., Canadian and Caribbean Travel
• Air New Zealand Announces $999 Package to Sydney
• Southwest Airlines Offers Fall Savings; Fares As Low As $99 Each Way Coast-to-Coast
• Delta Shuttle Celebrates New 727 Service Between Washington and Boston With $148 Round-Trip
• All Nippon Airways Cuts Domestic Fares By 50%
• Sale: AirTran today cuts seven-day advance purchase fares to $84 to $198 round trip. Buy by Oct. 17, fly by Feb. 12.

 

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Greetings from the East Coast. This week has been crazy busy. First of all I learned HTML (thanks to Daniel). Be sure to checkout the PORTAL because it is being updated all the time!  There are all sorts of new links from listening to air traffic control to airline partners, we even have a new virtual community.
My Itinerary this week was  LAX-ORD-STL-ORD-LGA.  First stop was to pick up Amber in Chicago, then we flew to St. Louis for my buddy Peirson's wedding. This was my first trip there, and I have to tell you~ it was a great time.  The first night we (I spent the weekend with some of my child hood friends, Tim & Jen Hartog and Jason & Josie (soon to be) Diamandis) made it to a Cardinal's game. I hate to admit it (I'm a die hard Yankee fan) but these guys are probably the best fans around. I mean 9 out of 10 people were wearing red Cardinal jersey's (what are they nuts?). After the game we went to Union Station which is a pretty neat place in itself. It has a lot of restaurants, stores, and was close to our hotel: the Dreary Inn, I mean the Drury Inn.
The main attraction in St. Louis as we all know is the Arch (historical and architectural overview.) I didn't realize how big it is, it's 630 feet (the Statue of Liberty is 305, and the Eiffel Tower is 984 ft). I also did not realize you can go up it. For $7, you can take a capsule up either side, that's right a capsule. If your claustrophobic don't even think about it. It's 4 feet high, fits 5 people, has no windows, and your are connected to 7 other capsules. I am a bit claustrophobic and a tad afraid of heights, but I decided to take one for the team, and go up it. I am so glad I did, because to my surprise it really wasn't that bad. The tram takes four minutes to get up to the top, and the views from up there are spectacular.
Sunday was a marathon day for me. I was up at 6:15, and took another "train to the plane". St. Louis also has a train stopping at the airport (I'm a huge fan of these time and money savers), what a deal $1.25, instead of a $40 taxi. Took a 45 minute flight to Chicago, and planned on staying for a few days. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, it felt like summer with the temperature hovering above 80 degrees. Everybody was running, walking, or laying out on the lake, and we were no different. Unfortunately, I didn't stay very long, because at 7:30 I got a phone call informing me my Mom was in the hospital with a high fever. Within 90 minutes, I was on the last flight out to NY. Thank God My Mom is doing better, but she will be in the hospital for a while and so will I.
 

Next Week:  Taking care of my Mom

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TIP OF THE WEEK:   By Chris McGinnis
Here are some tips and information on avoiding the well-know trip spoiler, jet-lag.
Natural light help reset your body's rhythms to the local time. Sleep with the curtains open so the natural morning light will wake you; try to work in rooms with windows, and take plenty of outdoor walks.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

• SUN SPOTS & HOT SPOTS
• LUXURY SPAS POPPING UP ALL OVER HAWAII'S ISLANDS
• BELIZE OFFERS ADVENTURE AT REASONABLE PRICES
• FOOD AND FUN IN THE SUN AWAIT JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER
• DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES MEAN NEW ATTRACTIONS FOR THIS GULF COAST TOWN
• CRUISE LINES PLAY THE NAME GAME
• THINGS TAKE A `BAZAAR' TURN IN LAS VEGAS

• DESTINATION: PENNSYLVANIA~Battle at Gettysburg Helped Shape the Nation
• There's Bad and Good for Tourists in Hawaii Trends
• Getting Him Out of the House and on the Road--or Coping When You Can't
• WEEKEND ESCAPE: NEVADA~A Golfer's Mirage
• THE WANDER YEAR~Tallying Close Encounters of the Memorable Kind

• A Love Boat Is Rated G
• On the Mississippi, Over the Top
• Average Age, 64.1
• Buying Low In High Times
• A Traffic Jam at the Wharf
• The Complete Fall/Winter Cruise Directory
• What's Doing in San Juan
• A Buffet Line of Cultures in Las Vegas

• New Detector Could Reduce Airport Body Searches
• Business Booms for Hotel Near the Artic Circle
• Bargain Hunters Save Money, Lose Time Waiting in Line

• Help Is at Hand
• Getting a US passport in a rush

• 10 great places for golf near an airport
• Raising the bar
• Spooky fall family fun

• Seven Up: TWA feeder Trans World Connection starts flights Sunday between Los Angeles International and: Bakersfield, Fresno, Monterey, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Lengthy claim: United plans to begin daily non-stop service April 1 between New York JFK and Hong Kong. At about 8,440 miles and almost 16 hours, the flight will be the longest scheduled non-stop in the world.
• Hookup: United will offer high-speed wireless access from lounges, gate rooms and terminals at 50 key airports. First systems will be in place in nine months.
• Extra: United added breakfast and snack items, including citrus blintzes with turkey sausage in coach and apple cinnamon pancakes in first class, on North American and Hawaii flights.

BESTFARES

• Take Your Travel Vitamins Seriously & Don't Swallow Hype
• American To Offer 6 Daily Flights Between Boston And Washington (DC)
• E-ZPass Now Available Throughout the Entire New Jersey Turnpike
• Airline Web Sites to Account for Almost 60% of Air Travel Bookings in 2000

• Health-care options for seniors abroad
• Work then chill in a regular home
• United employees to rally in DEN
• Hotels target travelers with pets

• Parking Rates At LAX and Van Nuys Airports to Increase Oct. 2
• Red Lion Hotels & Inns Adds Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan as Newest Travel Partner
• Fool on the Hill: Southwest Airline's Competitive Edge
• Frequent Flyers Reap New Rewards With Flying Club

• Soviet Pride to Sino Fun Park
• Travel Timeline
• FAA Systems Poorly Defended, Report Says
• U.S. Driving Habits Make Roads Deadly, Europeans Say
• Hunting an Elusive Thief in The Island of Lost Maps
• Truth Proves Elusive in Air Rage Death
• What Will Be Wrought by Airports’ Inability to Expand?

• LaGuardia Airport in crisis, airline officials say
• Russia's Aeroflot urges U.S. to lift ban on smoking flights
• University to appoint professor of airline food
• Smoke on aircraft shuts down DFW Airport
• Endangered careers: On the aloha tour
• Olympics bring clueless tourists to Australia

• Air travel on the mend, Slater says
• Room with a view, and a T-1, too
• The art of the business meal
• Three discount cards help make dining out more digestible
• Business fares soar ever higher
• Jet lag: Learn 7 tips for managing it
• Frequent fliers cash in — for goods
• WashPost: 10 bargain fare secrets: Use multiple Web sites, be flexible, and shop the sales

• The Search For Red October
• Another Round Of Phony Fuel Charges

• U.S. & Canadian Airlines
• U.S. & International Hotels
• Car Rentals

GOOD TO KNOW!
According to the latest United Nations count, there are 188 countries in the world. But then, if you really want to be boastful, you can go by the Travelers' Century Club, which lists 313.

The TCC, established in Los Angeles in 1954, bills itself as a social organization whose members must have visited 100 or more "countries" in the world. What boosts the TCC country count is the fact that it includes Alaska, Hawaii, the San Blas Islands of Panama and the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, among many other places, as separate entities. Among the approved "countries" in the Pacific Ocean that will send you scurrying to an atlas are Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Tokelau Islands and Nauru.

Travelers interested in joining can write to the TCC at P.O. Box 7050, Santa Monica, CA 90406, or phone 310-939-7419. Or they can find the TCC's country list on its Web site at www.travelerscenturyclub.org. The club's initiation fee is $100, and annual dues are $25.
 
 

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