The Long Road to Luxor
Our trip starts in ancient Luxor, once the capital of Egypt and formerly known as Thebes. Luxor is a few hundred kilometers south of Cairo on the Nile River and…
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The Journey Home Was Quick
After a fantastic 10 days in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia it is time to come home. Our flight from Helsinki back to Chicago had a late afternoon departure, and…
Qatar Airways
We are finally on our way to our next adventure in Africa! After our obligatory 1+ hour trip to O’Hare, we boarded our Qatar Airways flight to Doha. Our full…
Home on JAL
Our last day in Tokyo was a little disrupted by Typhoon Trami. The Metro closed early, shops and restaurants closed, etc. It was expected to hit Tokyo with force, but…
New York to Kathmandu
This is a big travel day as we’re essentially flying to the opposite side of the globe. We start with our long-awaited return to the Etihad Apartments from New York…
Heading Home!
On New Year’s day we pried ourselves out of our suite at the Park Hyatt Vienna at 7:15am in order to get to the airport for our flight home. The…
Leaving Oman
What a terrific stop we had in Oman. We feel so fortunate to have experienced what we did and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend a trip there. Muscat is about 75…
Japan Airlines
We have been excited to try Japan Airlines in First Class for some time. When we visited Japan in 2014 we were lucky enough to score two seats in First…
Lufthansa First Class
One of the challenges in returning home from vacation is that your real life comes crashing into your vacation life and then takes over. With this trip it was compounded…
From Wurst to First in Frankfurt
It’s fitting that the return leg of our trip was as uncertain as the outbound during the Chicago snowstorm back on December 16th. Uncertain because we had planned to finally…