The reason for my recent absence – Travel Madness!!!

As some of you may have noticed I haven’t been around much (or at all really) on these boards for the last six months or so. There are a number of different reasons for this, but the main one is that I’ve been out on the road quite a bit this year.

Now I am back in the UK, at least for this summer, and after calls from several people for trip reports I thought I might as well, in my new found spare time, spend a little while updating you on my travels. I’ve written up two trips already, but I’m not sure if anyone is likely to be especially interested in the others.

So what I shall do is write a brief resume of the last few months on this thread, and if anything sounds particularly interesting I will invest some time into writing up a more detailed report:

LHR-LBA (bmi)
Returning to University from Christmas

MAN-LHR-LAX (AA)
LAX-MIA (AA)
MIA-DFW-ORD-MAN (AA)
A week long, post exam break to LA and Miami

MAN-ZRH (Swiss) ZRH-IST (Turkish
IST-ZRH-MAN (Swiss)
Weekend break to IST and ZRH

MAN-LHR-NRT (BA)
NRT-LHR-MAN (BA)
Last minute weekend break taking advantage of the cancelled BA strike

MAN-ORD-STL-SFO (AA)
SFO-MIA (AA)
MIA-LHR-MAN (AA)
Mid-semester break to San Francisco and Miami

MAN-BHD (BA)
BHD-IOM-BLK (Manx2)
Valentines Day 1p flight deal

MAN-LHR-LAX (AA)
LAX-LHR-MAN (AA)
Half Term family holiday, ending up with me “stranded” alone in LA for 2 days due to overbooking

MAN-LGW-DFW-LAX-JFK EWR-ORD-MAN (AA)
My first “Mileage Run” and my first time in Business Class (Trip report already written)

MAN-LHR-MIA-LIM-CUZ (BA, AA, LAN)
CUZ-PEM-CUZ-LIM (LAN)
LIM-MIA-DFW-LGW-MAN (LAN, AA, BA)
Month long Easter trip to Peru including my first First Class International flight

MAN-LHR-LAX-OGG-HNL (AA)
HNL-JHM-OGG-HNL (Go! + Aloha)
HNL-LAX-BOS-MAN
Free Hawaii trip

MAN-BOS-MIA-SFO (AA)
SFO-MIA-EWR-ORD-MAN (AA)
Free San Francisco trip

MAN-LHR-JNB-CPT (BA)
CPT-LHR-MAN (BA)
Last minute mileage redemption on BA First Class (Trip report already written)

I’ll post the South Africa report up now and the Mileage Run one if I can find it too. Like I said, if any of the above sounds interesting to anyone, let me know, and I’ll write it up!