We leave in two days for the Osaka Expo in Japan.  We then catch the Oceania Riviera from Yokohama to Vancouver.  So my travel series began yesterday and will continue for another month, when we return on May 18 to Honolulu. Today, the matter of airport lounges.   MSN has a complete article you can read .  Here is my experience. I was once loyal to Star Alliance because I had a lifetime invitation to the clubs of United Airlines.  I've traveled nearly three million miles, giving me this privilege. However, United service and flights deteriorated during and after the COVID Pandemic. This was a time when I decided to fly business class on all my flights.  Turns out that every airline I took at this level automatically provided lounge entrance, and nearly all the international airlines had better food, drinks and services than United.  There was no need to only fly Star Alliance. So anyway, why bother to use an airport lounge? Great place to relax, w...

Any regular reader of this blog site knows that I'm old, for I live at 15 Craigside, a seniors' community in Honolulu.   For the past 15 years I've taken two lengthy trips/year, at least half a dozen being global, that is, around the world....usually about two months long.   More recently, cruises have encroached, as our most recent journey involved a Norwegian Encore 39-day sail from Seattle to Southampton (UK), plus a Viking Tir European Christmas cruise of 14 days from Amsterdam to Budapest.  Our next extravaganza in a month will involve flying to Kansai Airport, Japan, to participate in the Osaka World Expo, then an Oceania cruise from Yokohama to Vancouver. However, I've come to that point in life when I am beginning to enjoy life more at home than not.  Nothing fancy. Mostly writing this daily blog, something I have been daily doing for almost 17 years My first posting was on  29April2008 . You know how long this has been? Beginning with kinderga...