We came close to buying two tickets to paradise this week. Found a pair of round trip tickets from Chicago O’Hare for $375 including tax. This is for a November trip so we have a little time. (even with acceptable departure and arrival times)
There are three reasons I didn’t pull the trigger,
1. tickets will go on sale again.
2. we are traveling with two other couples and would kind of like to go together …they aren’t ready to buy tickets yet.
3. there is concern for jobs right here in river city especially mine…LOL.
If the new management of the company that is buying us wants to keep me then rock on….Nov travel it is. If not…it may be travel in June. I have a list of tasks I need to do on island and I will do it for sure sooner or later.
Needless to say I didn’t buy the tickets but like the white shark hunting seals…I am out there and waiting for that one fat slow seal to slip into the water for dinner…Hey air fare I’m out there and I’m waiting!!!!!! I will be successful and capture my prey.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The clock keeps moving forward towards our trip!!
Ok we have 28 weeks from today….man, that sounds like a long way off….we will be in ST Maarten!
Looks as if we have two couples going with us.
The couples differ in interests but will I am sure get along just fine. Besides, this trip is not an all join hands and do everything together type of trip. As a matter of fact my thought on this is there will be probably 2 or 3 times when we will all be together. First will be a day trip to Anguilla unless one of the couples just doesn’t want to go and the second will be watching a sunset from the fort above the French town of Marigot.
We may all go to the same beach the same day and have a few adventures together but I just don’t see this being a lock step vacation. One couple eats gourmet…and are they in luck!! The other golf and wants to Scuba. Honestly I feel real good about this trip and think that we will have lots of fun and I will get a lot of things done that I want to do!
Rob’s list of things to do is pretty simple.
Each morning I will be on a different beach either as the sun comes up or not too long after taking plenty of landscape pictures. Every day from about 9:30 to 4 I will do what my wife wants ….as in she picks the beach and we RELAX. After 4 till the sun goes down I will again be shooting lots of pix of the island. Then dinner and drinks and repeat only difference being it is another day.
I am going to the island for two purposes, one is to relax and the other is to get some specific photos so I can put some creativity to work and put together a special photography project that may be marketable.
Have been watching flights and the prices are good right now but will hold out till a bit later in the summer to purchase our flights. We are going to try to fly with either one or both couples, something we have never done but which would add to the general excitement for at least the arrival leg of our journey.
Looks as if we have two couples going with us.
The couples differ in interests but will I am sure get along just fine. Besides, this trip is not an all join hands and do everything together type of trip. As a matter of fact my thought on this is there will be probably 2 or 3 times when we will all be together. First will be a day trip to Anguilla unless one of the couples just doesn’t want to go and the second will be watching a sunset from the fort above the French town of Marigot.
We may all go to the same beach the same day and have a few adventures together but I just don’t see this being a lock step vacation. One couple eats gourmet…and are they in luck!! The other golf and wants to Scuba. Honestly I feel real good about this trip and think that we will have lots of fun and I will get a lot of things done that I want to do!
Rob’s list of things to do is pretty simple.
Each morning I will be on a different beach either as the sun comes up or not too long after taking plenty of landscape pictures. Every day from about 9:30 to 4 I will do what my wife wants ….as in she picks the beach and we RELAX. After 4 till the sun goes down I will again be shooting lots of pix of the island. Then dinner and drinks and repeat only difference being it is another day.
I am going to the island for two purposes, one is to relax and the other is to get some specific photos so I can put some creativity to work and put together a special photography project that may be marketable.
Have been watching flights and the prices are good right now but will hold out till a bit later in the summer to purchase our flights. We are going to try to fly with either one or both couples, something we have never done but which would add to the general excitement for at least the arrival leg of our journey.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
You can’t get there from here
Ok you can but not in a very direct or at all thrifty way.
What am I talking about you might ask? Getting to ST Maartin (airport code SXM) from Kansas City (KC or airport code MCI).
We are looking to book our annual trip to the islands mon!! My preference is to head immediately south or southeast of KC especially in the fall of the year. It can be a bit chilly otherwise and frankly I just don’t want to pack cold weather clothes.
My search of airports going into SXM have led me to the following key airports….
Airport Flight price
Kansas City (MCI) ** $557
Chicago OHare (ORD) ** $365
ST Louis (STL) ** $512
Detroit (DTW) ** $501
Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) ** $602
Minneapolis (MSP) ** $501
Washington DC- Dulles (IAD) ** $415
Atlanta (ATL) ** $562
Orlando (MCO) ** $536
FT Lauderdale (FLL) ** $475
Boston (BOS) ** $485
Philadelphia (PHL) ** $358
New York (JFK) $425
Charlotte (CLT) $402
Newark (EWR) $414
Miami (MIA) $504
** is not non-stop
It is cheapest to fly from Chicago for us but there is still another $120 each to get to Chicago and then would have to transfer from one airport to the other or an 8 hour drive but then we are looking at work time lost and parking a car for a week at the airport.
I did not look at cut rate airlines like Jet Blue as they don’t book that far out yet.
What am I talking about you might ask? Getting to ST Maartin (airport code SXM) from Kansas City (KC or airport code MCI).
We are looking to book our annual trip to the islands mon!! My preference is to head immediately south or southeast of KC especially in the fall of the year. It can be a bit chilly otherwise and frankly I just don’t want to pack cold weather clothes.
My search of airports going into SXM have led me to the following key airports….
Airport Flight price
Kansas City (MCI) ** $557
Chicago OHare (ORD) ** $365
ST Louis (STL) ** $512
Detroit (DTW) ** $501
Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) ** $602
Minneapolis (MSP) ** $501
Washington DC- Dulles (IAD) ** $415
Atlanta (ATL) ** $562
Orlando (MCO) ** $536
FT Lauderdale (FLL) ** $475
Boston (BOS) ** $485
Philadelphia (PHL) ** $358
New York (JFK) $425
Charlotte (CLT) $402
Newark (EWR) $414
Miami (MIA) $504
** is not non-stop
It is cheapest to fly from Chicago for us but there is still another $120 each to get to Chicago and then would have to transfer from one airport to the other or an 8 hour drive but then we are looking at work time lost and parking a car for a week at the airport.
I did not look at cut rate airlines like Jet Blue as they don’t book that far out yet.
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