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Author Topic: International Travel by the Staff Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-15-2004 04:05 PM                     The jet setting lifestyle that our staff is able to pull off with our underpaid jobs always surprises me. Here is a partial list of the places our staff has been in the past 4-years we have been open. Ireland - Vanessa (Before working here) England - Shannon (Before working here), Ian, Jake, Evan (soon), Ian Sherine, Vanessa France - Ian Italy - Ian, Ky, Michael Tunisia - Ian (Before working here) Mexico - Ian, Ky, Michael Scotland - Ian Amsterdam - Ian Norway - Michael Sweden - Michael, Casey Romania - Evan, Lincoln India - Payal (twice) Argentina - Lincoln Guatemala - Sierra (twice) Honduras - Sierra Australia - Sierra New Zealand - Sierra Cuba - (Somebody) Senegal - Allison Singapore - Ian Sherine Canada - Cayla, Sierra, Ky, Ian (lunch) Then we have one manager who had never been on an airplane before this January. The farthest he has ever been from home is Las Vegas. Do you yearn to travel? Where have you been?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-15-2004 04:19 PM                        I hate travelling with a passion! It takes too long, is boring, way too inconvenient and expensive. If I am with someone it isn't so bad. But needing to get to the airport 2 hours before your flight is BS! And driving takes way too damn long and is way too damn boring and with gas at $90 per gallon, screw it! The terrorists have won! I concede! But I have been to the following: Baltimore Wilmington, Delaware New York City Los Angeles (definitely not as cool as NYC) Dallas Houston Galveston Sandy, Utah (boring state, btw) Las Vegas Atlantic City Probably elsewhere as well. I have zero desire to leave the United States as no other countries interest me except Japan. That's it. They have lots of fine women over there. Plus they are actually somewhat interesting, technologically.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-15-2004 04:54 PM                     I've actually been planning a trip to Amsterdam this summer to visit some fellow collectors and see the sights. Does anyone know of cheap airfare? Hotel isn't a problem at this point as I would have a place to stay.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-15-2004 05:00 PM                     My favorite topic.....my grandfather and father where travelers in their business and I am trying to catch up 47 USA states, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Netherlands Antilles, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belguim, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Holland, China, Thailand, Japan. I hope to make some new destinations over the next two years.... I am now part of a staff of 2 1/2 persons versus 9 - 10 in the past. Traveling now is several times more wearing than the past....it was not unusual to do three airline connections per fly day but two is now straining with security issues...recent example 21 hours to get from Miami to Bangkok became 30 hours...you learn to pace yourself, be positive and forgiving and stay aware. Before going to a new location I learn as much about the region, leave time to get "lost" which many times you find the local flavor more fun than the "touristy" spots. They say that only 15% of Americans have a passport.....more travel would probably enjoy what we have more and gain a wealth of insight into this little rock we live on being bathed by a star that could turn us into toast any minute how is that for a tangent.... Mike, British via London is usually the cheapest way into Amsterdam....stay away from the "Red Light" district and don't smoke too much pot or you will be falling out the cafe doors Take time to see the Van Gogh Museum, Tuschinski Cinema and have your walking shoes Joe, Japan is sqeaky clean, the women are hyper apoligetic ( sorry , sorry my fault ) and the world used to making up signs with Microsoft Word, most are hand lettered "marks a lot" specials...  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-15-2004 05:10 PM                        I believe that Northwest and KLM have a tie-up which results in lots of spare (and therefore cheap) capacity between Minneapolis and Amsterdam/Schiphol. I've been to two conferences in the US in the last three years, and on both occasions that was my way in (with the short-hop connection from Newcastle to Schiphol being thrown in by KLM, either free or at nominal cost, I'd imagine). Knowing my employers, they wouldn't have sent me that way unless it was cheap! There again, going to AMIA last November they sent me on a combination of Aeroflot and Alaska/Horizon Air (Newcastle - Amsterdam - Moscow - Anchorage - Vancouver), so KLM/Northwest probably isn't the cheapest way from Europe to the US any more. If you do decide to head to Amsterdam via London, it's worth checking out the UK-based low cost airlines, Ryanair, Easyjet and Jet 2. This will mean moving between airports within England, but you may well get such a cheap fare as to make doing that worth the hassle. quote: Where have you been? In Europe: France, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Faroe Islands. In North America: Minneapolis (though only the airport); Anchorage (ditto); Seattle; Lincoln, Nebraska; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Vancouver. In Asia: Moscow. quote: Do you yearn to travel? I know this sounds stupid, given how small the UK is, but there are bits of my own country I haven't seen and would very much like to - the Orkney and Shetland Islands for example, not to mention the interior part of Wales (Swansea is as far 'in' as I've ever got).  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-15-2004 05:43 PM                     Mike, a quick check on Orbitz found hundreds of flights via up to 10 airlines with the cheapest being Northwest/KLM for about $725. It is always cheaper to fly to Europe in the winter than the summer. The most interesting routing was Kuwait Airlines. I'm glad Joe chimed in on this subject because as inexplicable as it seems, Joe's reaction to travel isn't all that unique. I like travel just for travels sake. How many people would do something pointless just in order to travel? Say, fly around the world without leaveing the airports? If I didn't have to pay for it, I would do it just to say I had flown around the world. I would like to take a ship around the world. Of course I would like to stop in many places and see the sites. Let's all band together and buy Joe a ticket to Japan. Perhaps one-way. I think it would be funny as hell to have Joe wake up in Japan and have a video crew follow him around.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-15-2004 05:58 PM                     Leo, don't feel bad, we have the Bahamas available via 10 - 12 flights a day from Miami ( less than 30 minutes ) but I have never gone over to bug Manny Orbitz, Expidia, AA.com are my favorites with a little help from end destination agents. Joe in Japan....it will be like those lost little bulldog commercials on T.V.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-15-2004 06:13 PM                        I could manage in Japan. My Engrish is quite good.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-15-2004 06:56 PM                     What I'd like to do sometime is to drive a car from NY to CA, just to see how long it'd take me. Oh wait that's been done before. Thanks for the tips on the plane fares, I will have to do more research on that. I don't smoke weed, no problems there, but I wouldn't mind a visit to the red light district! My friend there said everything you've heard about it is true.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 04-15-2004 07:52 PM                     Joe in Japan. Would property values go up in the US while he is gone? I've been to NYC twice, Los Angeles once. Denver once. Lived in Nashville, and Atlanta. Loved all of the above cities. Have been to Mardi Gras 11 times. New Orleans is Wild! I've only flown 6 times. The first was a 30 minute flight between Asheville and Nashville in the 1970's  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-15-2004 08:30 PM                     I remember my first flight when I was five years old on a Lockheed Constellation ( four piston engines and 3 wing tail ) with my grandmother on my way to visit relatives...I thought we where going to crash in the water since the airport runway jutted out into the bay...rinse the landing tires before touching the runway....I was hooked by the air bug  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-15-2004 10:32 PM                        I do not travel now as often I used to but when I did, I have visited 32 states and Washington DC. During my many trips cross country, I have been to cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City countless times. I have been to Japan twice and Canada three times. I have only been to the border town of Tijuana but never had the opportunity to visit the other parts of Mexico. I Never had the opportunity to visit Europe but hope to in the not too distant future. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-16-2004 12:32 AM                     I have been to 17 countries and 48 US states (Vermont and Rhode Island are the only ones I have missed) The countries: Austria Bahrain Belgium Canada Cuba England Germany Honduras Ireland Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Panama Saudi Arabia South Korea Turkey -Aaron [ 04-17-2004, 01:21 AM: Message edited by: Aaron Sisemore ]  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-16-2004 02:12 AM                        Hmmm, US states and districts visited: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, DC, DL, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA--32 out of 50 states so far. Canadian provinces and territories visited: AB, BC, MB, SK, YT--5 out of 13 so far. Countries visited (outside of North America): Spain, Portugal, (West (at the time)) Germany, Ireland, Australia, Japan. I've been very fortunate in that most of this travel was paid for by employers or the USAF--the best way to travel is on someone else's nickel! Still so many places yet to see. I would be happy to be on the road (or in flight, or at sea) forever... [ 04-26-2004, 11:03 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-16-2004 09:33 AM                        Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Belgium --- usually to conduct training seminars, or participate in ISO/TC36 standards committees.  |  IP: Logged

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