Traveling
  • 2018 Europe XXVII
    • Day 1 - Arrival in Luzern
    • Day 2 - Luzern
    • Day 3 - Bern
    • Day 4 - Last Day in Bern
  • 2015 Round the World (Pages in Progress)
    • 2015 Cuzco, Peru
    • 2015 Sacred Valley
    • 2015 Machu Picchu
    • 2015 To the Rain Forrest
    • 2015 Cayman Lodge #OffTheGrid
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 1
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 2
    • 2015 Lima, Peru
    • 2015 Berlin
    • 2015 Warsaw, Poland
    • 2015 Krakow, Poland
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2
    • 2015 Bus Ride to Cambodia
    • 2015 Phnom Penh
    • 2015 Floating City, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Sunrise
    • 2015 - Battambang, Cambodia
    • 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand
    • 2015 - New Zealand Bike Tour - Days 1 and 2
  • August 2015 Europe (in progress)
    • Day 2 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Brazil - World Cup 2014
    • Argentina vs Swiss 2014 World Cup
    • Santos - The Lifeguard Study
    • Sao Paulo
    • More Santos and the BBQ
  • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bicycle Race
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Morning Session
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Afternoon Session
  • Africa Trip - February 2013
    • 2013 Days 15 and 16 Zanzibar
    • 2013 Day 14 Safari Ends
    • 2013 Day 13 Tarangire
    • 2013 Day 12 Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 11 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 10 Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 9 - Drive to Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 8 - First Day on Safari
    • 2013 Days 5, 6 and 7
    • 2013 Day 4 Cape Town
    • 2013 Day 3 Cape Town
  • 2014 New Zealand - North Island
    • Auckland
    • The Drive to Napier
  • 2013 Baltic Countries
    • 2013 Valnius
    • 2013 Riga, Latvia
    • 2013 Tallinn, Estonia
    • 2013 Tartu, Estonia
    • 2013 Stockholm
  • Barcelona - April 2013
    • Dali Museum
    • Futbol Club Barcelona
  • Nature Valley Grand Prix - Stillwater, MN 16 June 2013
  • 2001
  • Misc. Minneapolis
  • 2014 Red Bull Crashed Ice
  • Birchwood Team 2016

The Beginning

I had an Around-the-World trip on my list for sometime.  At one point I had a travel agent tell me not to do it, something about clients who had had problems.  Although the tickets come in flavors, the general rule is that you continually go either east or west.  What constitutes back tracking varies a bit with the ticket you buy.


Then I learned that Delta Airlines was going to quit offering the ability to buy the ticket using SkyMiles miles, the ticket needed to be purchased by December 31, 2014.  280,000 miles got me the ticket in Business Class.  

I had my list of places I wanted to go, originally planned on flying west with my first stop in New Zealand.  Speaking with the agent on the phone she was having trouble getting me across the Pacific anywhere near the date I wanted to leave.  I switched directions, starting in Peru.  Now the only problem was the Minneapolis to Atlanta let so I said if that's the only problem I'll buy a ticket to Atlanta (note, I never said Delta is a good airline).  A couple hours later I had my around the world ticket.  A couple hours is good for these tickets, I'd been advised to allow 4 and the agent said she had one that took 10.

Hello, TERRELL  SkyMiles  #******* >  Your Trip Confirmation #: ******
 Award Receipt

Tue, 17FEB DEPART ARRIVE DELTA 151
BUSINESSELITE® (O)
ATLANTA
5:21pm
LIMA
12:05am
**Wed 18FEB
Thu, 26FEB DEPART ARRIVE KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES 744
(O)
LIMA
9:15pm
AMSTERDAM
3:30pm **
Fri, 27FEB DEPART ARRIVE KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES 1829
(O)
AMSTERDAM
4:20pm
BERLIN-TEGEL
5:35pm
Thu, 05MAR DEPART ARRIVE AIR FRANCE 1247
(O)
WARSAW
6:40am
PARIS-DEGAULLE
9:05am
AIR FRANCE 258
(O)
PARIS-DEGAULLE
1:40pm
HO CHI MINH
7:25am **
Wed, 18MAR DEPART ARRIVE CHINA SOUTHERN 368
(O)
HO CHI MINH
8:00am
GUANGZHOU
11:25am
CHINA SOUTHERN 335
(O)
GUANGZHOU
2:30pm
AUCKLAND
7:00am **
Tue, 31MAR DEPART ARRIVE CHINA AIRLINES 54
(O)
AUCKLAND
8:15pm
TAIPEI 1
5:55am **
Wed, 01APR DEPART ARRIVE CHINA AIRLINES 6
(O)
TAIPEI
5:10pm
LOS ANGELES
2:10pm
DELTA 1371
ECONOMY (N)
LOS ANGELES
6:35pm
MPLS-ST PAUL
12:07am
**Thu 02APR
**Arrival date is different than departure date.
1Stop in BRISBANE
Passenger Info
NAME
TERRELL  BROWN
SkyMiles #*******
Gold

Award Flight Receipt
Ticket #: 0062189
Place of Issue: IRRRES
Issue Date: 06DEC14
Expiration Date: 06DEC15

METHOD OF PAYMENT Charged to TERRELL  BROWN
AX***********1000
$314.34 USD
MILES SkyMiles #*******
Miles Redeemed
280,000 Miles

CHARGES Air Transportation Charges Taxes, Fees and Charges United States - September 11th Security Fee(Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee) (AY)
$11.20 USD
Romania - Transfer Passenger Fee (DT)
$15.00 USD
Peru - Airport Departure Tax (HW)
$30.74 USD
Netherlands - Security Service Charge (CJ)
$9.00 USD
Netherlands - Passenger Service Charge (RN)
$8.40 USD
Netherlands - Noise Isolation Charge (VV)
$2.50 USD
Poland - Passenger Service Charge (ND)
$.20 USD
Poland - Airport Tax (XW)
$17.90 USD
France - Civil Aviation and Airport Tax (FR)
$25.70 USD
France - Air Passenger Solidarity Tax (IZ)
$56.20 USD
France - Passenger Service Charge (QX)
$35.50 USD
C4 Tax
$1.50 USD
Viet Nam - Passenger Service Charge (JC)
$20.00 USD
China - Airport Fee (CN)
$14.60 USD
New Zealand - Passenger Security Charge (IA)
$10.60 USD
New Zealand - Passenger Service Charge (KK)
$28.20 USD
United States - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Fee (APHIS User Fee - Passengers (XA)
$5.00 USD
United States - Immigration and Naturalization Fee(Immigration User Fee) (XY)
$7.00 USD
United States - Custom User Fee (YC)
$5.50 USD
Taiwan; Province of China - Airport Service Charge (TW)
$9.60 USD
Total Charges $314.34 USD TOTAL TICKET VALUE 280,000 Miles and $314.34 USD
VALID ON DL/SM OAL


 
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