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August 08 United Airlines - Poor Planning and ServiceIn October I'm flying to a friend's wedding. I booked my flight and waited to upgrade until I had taken another flight on United and gathered the miles I needed. I had a direct flight from Maine back to the West Coast. Enough miles. However...
United took it upon themselves to rebook me from a direct flight to two flights via Chicago. Now, they want double the miles in order to get the upgrade. So, they've not only extended my flying time (with no warning, email, call, etc) - but now they've kept me from upgrading.
I'm just glad I went to their website today to upgrade and saw the change. Otherwise I wouldn't even have known till I got to the airport and found that my flight didn't even exist!
Fly the friendly skies, indeed.
February 12 Israel trip - December 2005Just putting up a new gallery of my pics from my recent trip to Israel. Nice time with the family, and speaking at the Israel VB Users Group. Also a bunch of pics of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the road from J'lem to Tel Aviv, people at a bus stop, the usual. Actually put in captions in this set June 30 Trip Diary - Mayoral Tour of PockingWe were picked up by George at 9am and taken to the Pocking city hall, where the mayor (Josef) and first deputy mayor (Franz) met us. They showed us thru the city hall and its gardens, including the city council room, the mayor’s office and a museum area where they are currently showing photos from an American GI who was stationed in Pocking after the war. Interestingly enough, this area of Germany didn’t revert from American Armed Forces control until 1958 when they had their first local elections.
Josef presented us with a number of gifts from the city of Pocking – a tie with their symbol (a horse rubbing its back on the ground – a local artist was tired of doing standing horses – and this statue sits in the town square by the main church), some stickers and a book on Pocking (in German) that has a mention of the restoration of the monument and my grandfather’s role in Pocking after the war. Franz then took us on a tour around the area – we saw Bad Fussing (another town near Pocking also known for its mineral baths), and then went to the area where the DP Camps used to stand. There is nothing there now except the old heating station (that heated all the small buildings in the camp). The city has been trying to sell the land but hasn’t had any takers. I mentioned to my mother that Anna should try to buy it to place the memorial museum she wants to build. We’ll see what happens with that.
While visiting, we showed Franz some of the pictures from the original dedication and he mentioned that one of the buildings the procession passed was still in town – he took us there. I also had to take a picture of Franz’ car – and old BMW Z1 limited edition (8,000 built, around 6,000 left). Pictures:
May 20 Just got back from EuropeJust got back from an amazing trip to Europe. Visited Germany and Hungary, mainly, with a one day stop in Vienna. It was to go back with my mother, aunt and cousin to see where they grew up, how they got thru the war, rededicate a memorial my grandfather put up after the war and meet some relatives in Hungary who I'd never seen. Anyway, I'll post details at some point, but I just uploaded three new albums of pics - one from each country. Be warned - they include some photos from right after the war - including the one taken of my grandfather on a pile of bodies. January 26 Added some more India picsJust added some more pics from the India trip. The ones of Pondicherry brought a bit of a chill as I realized that I took those about 2 weeks before the Tsunami. Luckily, Pondicherry has a big sea wall, and wasn't hit as hard as many places. |
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