Birthday Celebration at Bakers Kay Key Largo

One of the best things about the month of July is that the family has all their birthdays in the same month (except the dog). The Mrs. had a milestone birthday and we were supposed to be spending it in Hawaii while we worked remotely but the governor of Hawaii kind of killed that idea …

Awaiting the Apple Watch

Like a lot of people I've been keeping tabs on the new Apple Watch that was just announced during the "Spring Forward" event.  A lot of the stuff on the Spring Forward event was a rehash of what was already shown when it was first mentioned when the iPhone 6 was released.  I'll admit that …

So close to 1,000,000 HHonors Points!

I've been traveling for quite a long time to New Jersey and staying at the DoubleTree there which is a Hilton property. Since I am at Diamond level, I get a lot of points per stay which can translate into a ton of free stays. Just a few weeks ago I was really close to …

HHonors Diamond at last!

Finally after suffering through not having any status at hotels or airlines due to my inactivity last year, I have finally been able to reach status at one place, namely Hilton Hotels.  The highest status you can get with Hilton is Diamond unless there is some unspoken status that can be achieved but I'm not …

Almost Time for Hawaii

Only four more days to go until my first family vacation with the Mrs and the baby. I'm looking forward to getting a week off from work to relax and unwind. True to form I'm not going to take my work phone with me so if there is some sort of work emergency, it will …

Heading back to the Garden State

Late last year I predicted that I wouldn't be traveling to New Jersey for the rest of 2011and on that prediction I was pretty spot on. Oh how the travel and consulting gods love to tease me, it would appear that I will be spending a significant amount of time in New Jersey starting next …