Afghanistan & Egypt in the time of the plague

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Ha, I was just thinking, "This is a TR worthy of FlyerTalk, and one that doesn't just gill the screen with details of the first class menu" so I thought I'd check to see if you're there, and lo, you are!  cool.  I'm MojaveFlyer over there.  Maybe you can detect a theme in screen name? 

I really like that forum.  I've learned so much from my fellow travelers there, and saved a hell of a lot of bucks with interesting ticketing ideas (most of which no longer work, but...)

I'm on FlyerTalk as well, but got tired of the pictures of First Class menus and an attitude of "look how great I am".  Being a fairly hardened road warrior for work, I knew many of the tricks already, and the trip report's quality has dwindled.  After Randy sold out, it's become far more ads than I care for. 

My signature line of the " / SYR" is from a travel bulletin board that far, far precedes FlyerTalk, where we identifies our local and/or current airport.

David Bricker / SYR

I don't disagree, but there are still some folks who post truly amazing trip reports on FT. One guy in particular who lives in Dubai tends to visit a lot of the less 'popular' parts of the world (I recall his trip report from Mogadishu, Somalia with two armed guards).

I can't say that I'm impressed by most of the folks boasting about their first class awards travel, when 95% of it is funded by their employer. Anyway, 100% of my overseas travel adventures are completely paid out of pocket by me. I can never collect enough miles to do anything exciting, as I'm bouncing all over the planet, where no single airline has routes.