Empty Nester Miles

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  • Japan Trip Part 7 – Osaka Shinsekai Food Tour

    We took an evening food tour on our first full day in Osaka. I mentioned in the introduction post for this trip report that our daughter won a sweepstakes with a large credit on a website where you can book tours. A lot of these tours are also available through Viator and TripAdvisor so we…

  • Japan Trip Part 6 – Conrad Osaka Junior Suite Review

    I decided pretty early on that we would use the Conrad as our base in Osaka. It was 90k Hilton points per night (or 360k for five nights with the fifth night free). The cash price was around $4500 all-in for the same five nights. It was such a great deal I decided to splurge…

  • Japan Trip Part 5 – Japan Airlines 767 HND-ITM Economy Class Review

    As I mentioned in the previous post, we navigated our way to the JAL domestic terminal at Haneda and waited at our gate for our 6:40pm flight. This flight was on a 767-300, a large widebody plane. Many domestic flights in Japan are on planes like this or A350s or 787s, specially configured for shorter…

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  2. Great presentation at Rotary today. Walked away educated. Please add me to your list serve and if you could flip me the FB page link I’d appreciate it. Thank you and again nice job!

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