Intro: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz

Intro: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz Review: Hyatt Regency Mainz Wandering Mainz, including the Christkindlemarkets Review: Lufthansa First Class Terminal and Lounge (yes, both!) Review: Lufthansa First Class 747-8 – Frankfurt to Washington Dulles Conclusion: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz I wrote in the early life of this blog, about Maslows Hierarchy of needs with respect to…

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A Boeing with an onboard Shower Does Exist!

On the recent Saverocity Observation Deck Podcast — Festivus Episode, I erred. I stated that I was not aware of a single Boeing with an onboard shower. Now, I won’t deny, I was blinded by things like the Emirates A380 Shower Spa, including my extended experience in that shower spa. Of course, there’s the Etihad shower…

Amazon to expand into Air Cargo

The Seattle Times is reporting that Amazon is in discussion with Boeing to lease nearly two dozen Boeing 767 Cargo aircraft.This move seems to be the result of Amazon wanting greater control over their logistics as they’ve experienced rather significant growth, and have seen logistics partners such as UPS have trouble keeping pace.Rather interesting, is…

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All the ways to follow Tagging Miles

I like to travel, heck, I hope you do to! But when I do travel, I’m not always able to post as frequently as I’d like to. I do try to tweet just as frequently, and usually more entertaining things, too!So I thought I’d just lay out a little reminder. You can follow me on…

The $20 Rule

I learned a few years ago about Chris Guillebeau’s $10 Rule, and realized that I had already been using a similar approach myself.Chris’ rule is: It only took me about 100 countries—I’m a slow learner—but I finally created a $10 rule for myself that has been rocking my world. The $10 rule is that when…

Administrative and Site Updates

It’s amazing that we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of Tagging Miles just two short months ago. Since then, and really before then, we’ve been working on some things just to tighten up the blog, and make it a bit more reader friendly. I thought I’d take a moment just to highlight some of the…