Hey there everybody, So right now I’m in my hotel room in Boston, What up Bean Town?! Anyways, this trip was almost a near-miss disaster because this morning, December 6th, I had originally set my alarm for 4:45am so I could catch my flight from Los Angeles to San Franscico. Well, things didn’t go the way I expected this morning. I wake up on time, shower and quickly rush out the door. Well just because I hurried up this morning didn’t mean I could put a rush on the hotel shuttle driver to LAX. So I get outside and find myself waiting for a good 10 minutes AT LEAST before he finally showed up in his little blue shuttle bus. I get in, and by this time its already 5:20am, and my flight leaves at 6am. We pull up at the last terminal there is and I quickly rush in and try to get my boarding ticket and thru security in a timely manner. But there is one hangup; its 5:33am and they have already started boarding. I give my best attempt to at least catch the tail end of the boarding process, but things didn’t quite work out the way I planned. Right as I got to my gate, the door was already closed and they were already taxiing from the gate. All that time I spent rushing and hurrying up was just a waste of time. After chatting with the attendant at the desk near my gate, I go to the Red Carpet Lounge and wait for my flight to the Golden Gate City. This particular flight was bound for SanFran first then to Beijing, China, so as you can imagine I was one of the only non-Asians on the flight. And as soon as I got on the plane, I went straight to sleep, tired from the mornings already hectic events.  I get to SanFran about an hour later and once again had to deal with getting on the next flight to Boston. Right when I got there, the flight that I was SUPPOSED to be on to Bean Town was leaving also. So I was pretty much stuck at SFO until I could get on a standby flight, and thank God I was able to get on the very next flight out to Boston! I just got into the great state of Massachusetts about an hour ago, and now I’m waiting on my delivery food from Nicks Place. I have to get up at 4am tomorrow morning to catch my 6am flight to SFO, and let me tell ya, I’m NOT gonna miss this one! ha.

Cody Kyler 1 to base- we have signal clearance

Waiting to catch my flight to BOSTON from SAN FRAN

Looking tired as hell on the plane to BEAN TOWN

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Cody Kyler !

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So as I type these words now, I sit in my hotel room by the Los Angeles Int’l Airport waiting to catch my early morning flight at 6am to San Fran, California, then to Bean Town Boston and back again all in a three day period just to gain 20,000 elite qualifying miles on my United Airlines account. Ever heard of the new movie that’s called “Up in the Air?” Well minus the heterosexual relationship, and you have the exact same foundation of what I’m doing now; gaining airline miles. It may sound a little crazy, but its totally worth it! Here is a poorly constructed map that I created to show where Ive been the past 3 days.

My Travel schedule: December 5th - 7th, 2009

On the plane in Chicago at 7am looking a hot mess

Eating a bowl of Raisin Bran once I got to LA

Finally at LAX !

Just as I started this current trip, it seems as if I was just on the heels of my last trip back home last weekend to Oklahoma City for Thanksgiving. I flew into the “O-City” on Thanksgiving morning and got there before noon. It was an extended weekend for me as I stayed there Thursday thru that following Wednesday afternoon spending time with my family and friends enjoying the holiday weekend. From turkey to my favorite pumpkin pie, I ate like a fat cow that weekend. On both Friday and Saturday nights, I was out and about with my friends hanging out and doing the usual weekend stuff; partying. Its rare that I get to go home as much, so when Im there, I try to have as much fun as possible. From the club to just driving around with my friends to eating dinner with my family, I have to say I had a pretty good Thanksgiving weekend overall!

Thanksgiving weekend 2009!

So as you can obviously tell, I had a great weekend! And I also want to wish everybody out there a Happy Holidays this winter season! From Kwanzaa to Christmas and everything in between, I hope everybody has a great holiday season and a Happy New Year as well! And as the time quickly approaches 11pm, I must wrap it up on here and get to bed, I gotta wake up at 4:30am. Yikes!

Get at ya boyyy,

Cody Kyler !

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