They have 4 nights booked in July at the Tropical Family Villa.
And a week booked at Hale Mana, a three acre multi-million dollar private estate on a bluff overlooking a waterfall.
This plantation style home is perched high on a bluff with pristine, 360-degree views of the ocean, valley, mountains and river below. …
details – Hale Mana
Rob’s looking forward to hiking the famous Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast. The same one I did earlier this year.
Wish I was going with them.
Visitors watch giant pandas through the protective glass of a renovated panda hall inside a zoo in Beijing, Thursday, June 5, 2008. Eight pandas which were selected for this summer’s Beijing Olympics made their first public appearance on Thursday. The pandas arrived safely in Beijing after a long journey from their damaged reserve near the epicenter of last month’s earthquake.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong) – ESPN
Since I hiked with one of the Mobissimo guys 2-years ago, I’ve been recommending the site for those shoppping for best airfare.
Connecticut startup Kayak has raised $223 million in venture capital and employs 58 people to build and grow its travel search site. Its chief competitor, San Francisco based Mobissimo, has raised $1 million and has just 15 employees. Mobissimo also became profitable last year, and the company doesn’t have to raise more money unless it’s to fuel faster growth or acquisitions.
It’s also clear even from a cursory comparison of the two sites that Mobissimo is trying harder than Kayak to help you find exactly the flight and hotel you are looking for. Kayak is largely similar to other travel search sites – enter where you want to go and get back results from a number of providers, sort by price, etc.
I’ve been traveling non-stop for the past 4-months. Shopping for flights I compare Mobissimo with Yahoo Fare Chase. And buy from either or, often, directly from the airline.
The USA Men’s Gymnastics Championships is hosted this year at the Reliant complex in Houston, Texas.
Everything is BIG in Texas. The Reliant Astrodome holds 67,925 people though it is mostly disused these days.
Recall this is where evacuees from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were transported.
On Labor Day, 2005, eighty-two-year-old Barbara Bush said of Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying in the Astrodome, “What I’m hearing, which is a little scary, is that all of these people want to stay in Texas! Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And most of the people in this arena are underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”
Astrodome – Wikipedia
Actually, the other buildings in the Reliant complex are very busy right now. The economy is booming in Texas.
It’s a good site for the gymnastics meet.
Dave and Lisa hosted me in Orlando.
This in their $100 / night luxury townhouse with private pool. There are some great bargains in Florida.
Thanks for the grub, Dave.
Just before dropping off a rent-a-car at Thrifty, Orlando airport, I went to fill the tank at a service station across the street.
It had a “suspiciously green” look to the pumps. Oddly, the price was not advertised on an overhead sign.
I could not believe my eyes — $4.99 / gallon !!
When I started cursing out the attendant, he calmly advised me to drive 3 blocks to a regular service station. $3.89 / gallon.
They no longer kill German tourists in Florida. It’s too lucrative to keep them alive.
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Calgarians were bracing for more snow Thursday as forecasters predicted up to 25 centimetres would be dumped on the area. …
larger original – Picasa
I returned to Athens, Georgia to watch the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships.
This is another small American College town. Beautiful.
One highlight, some unexpected statues on the grounds:
Or does Canada still look like this?
photo – Warren Long
The older I get, the more I like going somewhere SUNNY for January – March, the ice age months in Canada.
