Aaron Parecki

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• Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Jan 18

  I just made a list of all my expected flights in 2023 and I am just *barely* going to hit @AlaskaAir MVP Gold status (40K) by the very end of the year.
  
  How did I fly so much in 2019?? I hit Gold 75K status by April in 2019! 🤯
  

  I am reviewing all my 2019 flights to try to remember why I told myself I didn't want to go back to that much travel anymore.
  
  PDX-SJC-PDX
  PDX-SFO-PDX
  PDX-SEA-MSY-SLC-PDX
  PDX-EWR-SEA-PDX
  PDX-SEA-ORD-PDX
  PDX-SFO-AUS-PDX
  PDX-SFO-PDX
  PDX-SEA-BOS-NRT-LAX-PDX
  PDX-LAX-LHR-PRG-LHR-PHX-SFO-PDX
  PDX-EWR-LHR-CDG-BCN-FRA-HAJ-LHR-SFO-PDX
  PDX-DCA-IAD-ORD-SFO-PDX
  PDX-SNA-PDX
  PDX-SFO-SJC-PDX
  PDX-FRA-FRA-DUS-AMS-DUS-FRA-PDX
  PDX-ORD-YYZ-ORD-PDX
  PDX-SFO-PDX
  PDX-SFO-LHR-KEF-PDX
  PDX-ORD-PDX
  PDX-OMA-PDX
  PDX-SNA-PDX
  PDX-SAN-MCI-DEN-PDX
  PDX-EWR-LGA-BOS-YUL-EWR-PDX
  PDX-SEA-BOS-PDX
  PDX-SLC-PDX
  PDX-AUS-SEA-PDX
  PDX-ONT-PDX
  PDX-SNA-PDX
  PDX-OAK-PDX
  PDX-DEN-TUL-DEN-PDX
  PDX-LAX-SYD-BNE-MEL-LAX-PDX
  PDX-ORD-FRA-AMS-FRA-ORD-PDX
  PDX-DCA-PDX
  PDX-SFO-LHR-ZRH-IAD-PDX
  PDX-SEA-OKC-IAH-MEM-ORD-CPH-SFO-PDX
  PDX-LAX-SIN-SEA-PDX
  
  214,000 miles

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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  Wed, Jan 18, 2023 4:20pm -08:00 #travel
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  I just made a list of all my expected flights in 2023 and I am just *barely* going to hit @AlaskaAir MVP Gold status (40K) by the very end of the year.
  
  How did I fly so much in 2019?? I hit Gold 75K status by April in 2019! 🤯

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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  Wed, Jan 18, 2023 4:07pm -08:00 #travel
• Takeaways From The Alaska Airlines Flyer Forum 2022 (www.travelcodex.com)

  Wed, Jan 18, 2023 3:51pm -08:00 #travel #alaskaair
• eCFR :: 14 CFR 250.5 -- Amount of denied boarding compensation for passengers denied boarding involuntarily. (www.ecfr.gov)

  Tue, Dec 27, 2022 9:50pm -08:00 #travel
• Dr. Julie Gurner https://twitter.com/drgurner   •   Dec 19

  Realize that traveling for work is usually a massive time waste & cut it by 80% for next year. The best way to recover, is not to continually put yourself in the same cycle.
  

  At the end of 2019, after 40 cities and 97 days on planes, I told myself I was going to significantly cut my travel down for 2020. Turns out that plan kind of made itself 😂😬

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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  Mon, Dec 19, 2022 3:05pm -08:00 #travel
• Alaska Airlines https://twitter.com/AlaskaAir   •   Nov 4

  Ugh, I am sorry for the mess! It sounds like this would be sorted out best by our experts on our reservations team. You can reach them at 800-252-7522 or by texting 82008.
  -Annie
  

  Thanks, but I think there's literally nothing anyone can do. I can't even get my boarding pass from SEA-LHR until the American gate agents arrive at the gate. At least the British Airways lounge was able to find my ticket by looking up my seat number.

  Seattle, Washington, USA • 41°F

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  Thu, Nov 3, 2022 7:19pm -07:00 #travel
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  I need to figure out what shenanigans @TripActions pulled with my itinerary that caused the security check to reject my ID, and the @AlaskaAir lounge agent to have an extremely confused look on her face after scanning my boarding pass.

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F

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  Thu, Nov 3, 2022 2:29pm -07:00 #travel
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  Weekend plans:
  
  🚊 PDX➡EUG
  🚲 EUG➡#ResolveCon
  🚗 EUG➡Ashland
  🚲 Ashland➡Medford
  ✈️ Medford➡PDX
  
  Despite having my folding bike for almost 5 years, this will be the first time I've actually traveled with it!

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 57°F

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  Fri, Sep 30, 2022 9:56am -07:00 #brompton #bike #travel
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  Turns out if you buy someone an @AlaskaAir flight with your airline miles, it gets added to your own Alaska account, and then you get push notifications when their flight starts boarding and have a mild panic because you thought you were supposed to be at the airport

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 69°F

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  Wed, Sep 14, 2022 7:23pm -07:00 #travel
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  After a few months of being back to my 2019 level of travel, I am so excited for my September and October travel schedule!

  

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 78°F

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  Fri, Aug 12, 2022 1:51pm -07:00 #travel
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  I somehow ended up with not one, not two, but three separate hotel reservations for my trip next week, and I am baffled as to what part of my normal travel process failed that caused this to occur.

  Seattle, Washington, USA • 77°F

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  Sat, Aug 6, 2022 1:00pm -07:00 #travel
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  Tuesday was fun, let's do it again! AKL✈️HNL

  Hawaiian Airlines Flight 446 AKL to HNL in Auckland, Auckland, NZL • 58°F

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  Tue, Jul 12, 2022 11:56pm +12:00 #travel
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  Just landed in Auckland! It's my first time in New Zealand, and it's true, everything is upside down 🙃
  
  • It's Winter now
  • The cars drive on the left
  • Latitude is - and longitude is +

  Auckland NZL

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  Sun, Jul 3, 2022 5:50am +12:00 #travel
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  wow, the weather in Trondheim is even more chaotic than Portland! Sunshine to snow+hailstorm to sun in under an hour

  

  Trondheim, Trøndelag • 36°F

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  Sat, May 7, 2022 9:52pm +02:00 #travel
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  Is there a non-spammy site that will list out all the nonstop flights *into* a particular airport? Bonus points if you can filter by airline. The first one I found launched a popup behind my browser like it was 1999.

  Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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  Fri, Apr 8, 2022 11:33am -07:00 #travel
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  Thank you @British_Airways for having staff in the lounge who can actually get real answers to questions about why flights are delayed.
  
  My next flight is delayed because they can't get people thru checkin fast enough, which at least means this probably won't get cancelled.

  Hounslow, England, GBR

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  Thu, Mar 31, 2022 12:47pm +01:00 #travel
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  oh no are you kidding me... British Airways just straight up cancelled the LHR-SFO flight I booked for today. Now it's 2:45am and I am stuck on hold waiting to change my flight.

  Wien, Wien

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  Thu, Mar 31, 2022 2:46am +02:00 #travel
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  I ordered a vegan sugar-free brownie from this place in Vienna and they rang it up as a "Böses Croissant" (evil croissant) 😈
  
  Also it's on "Invalidenstraße" which if I saw that on my GPS directions I would definitely think there had been some sort of error

  

  Wien, Wien, AUT

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  Tue, Mar 22, 2022 1:55pm +01:00 #travel
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  Thing I learned today: it's a good idea to occasionally take off the wheels of your rolly suitcase and clean them, because they pick up a lot of carpet fiber and hair from rolling around dozens of airports for a few years.
  
  I'd share a photo but it's gross 😅

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 50°F

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  Mon, Mar 14, 2022 11:29am -07:00 #travel
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  In late 2019 I stuck a raspberry pi and e-paper display in a picture frame and made it show my upcoming travel plans. Now it is just blank. What should I use it for now?

  

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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  Sun, Jan 9, 2022 7:14pm -08:00 #travel #raspberrypi #raspi #iot