Every year I take a trip to Tampa/Clearwater with my dad, Kim, Nick and Derek during spring training. We have a routine. You know…not the daily sss one (if you don’t get it…don’t ask), but the something out of the ordinary yet still happens on a recurring basis kinda thing. Got me?

We book the same hotel (before we left the previous year)…order tickets for 2 home games…stop at the original Hooters upon arrival…rent a car that is way too small for 5 people + luggage…and drink – a lot.

My dad and the crew live in Wilmington, DE (poor souls got way more snow than me this year!) I fly out of Albany of course so we book flights that arrive in Tampa around the same time. Ideally I’d fly US through Philly to meet them…then continue with them to TPA. Hasn’t happened that way yet! This year I’m flying United (UA) through Dulles to Tampa…arriving 7 minutes before the US flight from PHL. Last year I did end up flying US (from Quebec City…but that’s a boring work story) and we ended up arriving at gates next to each other. United flies into a different “pier” than US so this year it will be a grand reunion in baggage claim. Of note is the Delta SkyClub in the same pier as United…so if they are delayed I can at least have my free g&t’s while I wait!

So Albany “International” Airport…I love you. Seriously. Aside from maybe Lincoln, NE, you are my favorite. Short walks between gates, friendly unpaid old people “helping” you do things you’ve done 80,000 times, announcements for Ma and Pa Kettle who left their cane behind at security, a decent food selection, and of course…Bonnie at my favorite restaurant. But seriously…you have the most inept TSA screeners/screening ever. 5 “lanes”, 3 id-check lanes, and hardly any passengers. Theoretically…ideal. Realistically…disaster. You suck. I don’t know how to explain it other than by saying…you delay me more than the elite UA line at LAX. And that’s pathetic. You are terrible and should all be fired. Seriously. There are plenty of skilled unemployed people in the ALB area to replace you. And do me a favor…don’t find a new job interacting with the public.

So on to the flights…

I was later than usual to the airport and after the security debacle…arrived at the gate about 2 minutes or so before boarding. Nice! Boarding was normal. I was one of 2 in first class on the CRJ-700 flight to Dulles. Flight time: 1 hour. Load: light. Events of note: none. Drank a pre-departure orange juice and an in-flight sprite. Boring. Landed in the upper C gates at IAD. (For regular UA flyers you can appreciate not arriving at the terrible A gates.) A short walk to D2 and the flight to Tampa was boarding already.

Onboard the A320 I was expecting a very typical UA shorthaul 2 hour flight with nothing particularly interesting. Boy was I wrong! I didn’t get an omelette! That’s right. For the first time ever on a flight in United First in the morning…there was not an omelette onboard. In place of the omelette for this 12 seat first class cabin was “eggs fritatta”. Essentially two small “pancake” sized scrambled eggs with the regular spinach stuffing from the omelette. Covered with cheese and served with potatoes and the always-disgusting “sausage”. Small plate of fruit, croissant, jam and a vodka-cranberry. I ate the eggs! I don’t know why I’m so amused by this…but it was actually decent (read: it was the best breakfast I’ve had in the air).

Service on this flight was very good. 20 minutes to go. 65 degrees with clear skies in Tampa. Did I mention that I find the new leather seat covers to be a bit hard on the butt? Hi Estelle!

245am Sat. Feb. 20th
Beep beep beep. What the hell? Oh…it’s time to wake up. The Copa flight from JFK-PTY leaves at the obscene hour of 5am. Worse still…Copa boards a full hour before the flight. Technically that was 407am. Crazy. Knowing very well that there was no way I was going to wake up at 1145pm Friday night (I probably would still be up) to drive to JFK, I booked a room at the halfway decent JFK Hampton Inn. In reality I went to sleep about this time so amen for going to JFK the night before! Nothing special, but it was clean and had a decent rate.

So off to the airport. I parked in JFK’s long term parking lot which is about 469 miles from the terminal. After a long walk across the parking lot and an equally long AirTrain ride, we arrived at Terminal 4. I think for 2-3 day trips from now on I will be parking at the terminal instead of long term. The extra 10-15 or whatever per day is worth it to avoid that mess.

Check-in in Terminal 4 for Copa was also a mess. There was one business class check-in counter, one web check-in counter, and several economy class counters. Note to self (and the others doing this trip): check in online! There was 1 person in the web check-in line and about 50 in the regular check-in line! Copa Airlines participates in Continental Airline’s OnePass program. Thanks to my comped gold status (ends at the end of this month)…I scored business class upgrades on both outbound segments. I was excited for the experience. Upgrades cleared Thursday night for both Saturday segments. Based on what I had read, I was most definitely planning on waiting until the gate for the upgrade…so I was happy.

After about a 10 minute wait for the overly-needy couple in front of us to check-in…it was our turn. We were on separate records but checked in together. Let’s just say that they put the trainee on the business class desk today. In a word…slow. Ridiculously slow. After checking us in I got a good laugh when she gave us a questionnaire to answer about our check-in experience. I was nice about it and only faulted the 10 minute wait in line. Scott was more honest and put that both the in-line wait and the agent’s speed was unacceptable. Maybe I should “grow some balls”…but I have a hard time telling someone they suck. Haha.

Boarding passes in hand around 355am, we were told we could use the Oasis lounge at JFK but that boarding was starting soon so we should head to the gate. Lesson #1 regarding travel: don’t listen to inexperienced agents. At about 410am, the agent working the gate picked up the microphone to announce that an announcement would be made in the entire terminal that we were boarding…but we wouldn’t be boarding for another 15 minutes. I thought that was odd…but ok no big deal. Sure enough we heard a boarding announcement on the PA so we stood at the gate laughing. About 10 minutes later the gate agent again reached for the microphone. Without a second to spare, the entire plane jumped up and rushed to the gate. Chaos. That’s the only word I can use to describe the scene. Self-important people shouting to get out of their way…others blocking the EliteAccess carpet with no clue what was going on. The entire time I announce as loud as I can (amidst my frustration) that the plane wouldn’t leave without them. I still do not understand the “first on the plane” mentality. The plane is leaving this place and going to another. Everyone has seat assignments (this isn’t Southwest after all!) After the madness at the gate we were onboard a Copa 737-800 aircraft destined to Panama City (PTY). Copa’s hub is PTY so pretty much every flight is from or to Panama.

Predeparture drinks were served in business. The tray had OJ and water…but Scott asked what we could get and the answer was anything. We both had sparkling wine (which was absolutely disgusting) and attempted to keep our eyes open. The crew was fluent in English, the plane was clean, and we got our drinks. So far so good (minus boarding).

Takeoff was uneventful and soon we were on our way to Panama City. Service on this flight consisted of breakfast in both business and economy. Business breakfast consisted of a 2-course service starting with a fruit plate and breads…followed by eggs or something else (I can’t remember). I selected the eggs which were interesting in preparation. Some sort of scrambled eggs that were in tiny pieces with green pepper and onion. It was very tasty! I hate United’s breakfasts so this was a nice change. The flight crew was very friendly but did disappear for significant periods of time throughout the flight (this would become a common theme in business). After breakfast I slept quite a bit and only woke up 4 or 5 times only to find no flight attendant (I wanted water).

The landing in PTY was interesting as it seemed as if there was no attempt at a soft landing (another theme)…more of a “put er down now” type attitude. Not one of my hardest landings, but certainly made me think to myself that the pilot-in-charge could have tried harder. There was essentially no wind and plenty of runway.

Deplaning was another temper-tester as no one seemed to follow the front-to-back unwritten rule that we tend to follow in the US. It was more of a push your way out or be marched past attitude. Needless to say I didn’t have the warm and fuzzies. Given Copa’s close relationship with Continental, there is a President’s Club at PTY. It was fairly modern with the same crapo food, but did have a complementary bar (even for champagne which most PC’s charge for). One thing I should have asked but didn’t is whether or not my United Red Carpet Club membership would get me in. Scott has a PC membership so he got me in…but I can get into PCs in the US so I’m assuming that would work there too. Anyways…we made it in and stored our bags in the luggage room. Typically this is a small room with shelves, but this lounge had 5 keyed lockers for small things. We fit 2 backpacks and my coat in 1. There is a $20 deposit for the locker but that is well worth it to insure valuables are still there when you return. The deposit can be in cash (Panama uses the US Dollar or on a credit card). After storing our luggage we met up with Ray…another FlyerTalker who was on his way from MEX-PTY-LAX on the same fare. Scott and I got changed (coming from 32 degrees in NY to 90 in Panama) and off we went into town.

Note to self: review the 4 years of Spanish you took in high school because you suck at speaking it. My professors certainly would not be proud.

Luckily I did explain to the cab driver that we simply wanted to be dropped off in town so instead of $80 for 3 of us it was only $33. He thought we wanted a driving tour. Second note to self: negotiate with the cab drivers in Panama!

Anyways…we made it into town to the bank/commercial area. Without a map or information on Panama City we really had no idea where we were or where we were going (note 3: do research prior to showing up in a foreign city!) So we eventually found a Crowne Plaza and asked for a map and asked what we should do for lunch. The friendly front desk lady was nice enough to call for a map. We got 2 and were informed where we should head for a traditional Panamanian lunch. I still can’t tell you if we made it to the suggested restaurant, but we found a great local place and enjoyed a variety of different dishes. We also enjoyed a few local cervezas (beers). Unfortunately I decided to only take pictures of beer and drinks on my phone so those are the pictures that are attached at the moment. I will upload plenty more though once I get home (I’m writing this on my BlackBerry at 30+k feet headed to JFK at the moment – started on the MEX-PTY segment).

After a very cool lunch we decided to head over to “old town” (I can’t remember what the proper name is but it is something similar to cosco beach). Ray was familiar with the location (from reading about it I presume) so off we went. What an awesome place. We met an english-speaking lady at the restaurant who told us the area was similar to Habana (Havana) Cuba and I think she was pretty accurate from the pictures and stories I’ve seen. Nice shops, old town feel, neat restaurants with primarily outdoor seating, and rather friendly people. We went past several outdoor markets and I’m still kicking myself for not buying anything (no gifts for me or anyone else this trip). Then it was time to venture back to the airport for our connecting flight to Mexico City (MEX)…

Note for anyone doing a sightseeing trip to PTY: The cab ride from the airport to the city center was $33 for 3 people (30 mins). The cab ride to old town was $3 for 3 people (10 mins). The cab ride back to the airport was $25 for 3 (40 mins). So negotiate!

Back at the airport we went through security. What a mess! I had a lighter taken away from me. Scott got through with 3 beers (gifts from the restaurant we ate lunch at). Neither lighters or liquids are permitted through security. Go figure they caught the lighter but not the beers (2 bottles + 1 can).

Another 30-some minutes in the lounge and it was time to head to the gate. We went to the assigned gate and of course they changed it to a gate at the opposite side of the terminal. Note way too many: reconfirm the gate before leaving the lounge. Boarding was almost complete by the time we arrived at the gate (maybe 20 pax left), but they really do stop the regular line when anyone is on the EliteAccess carpet so we zipped in front of the line and were on the plane without delay. I’m used to United where they let 5 people from the regular line through before they stop to let red carpet folks through. Not at Copa.

…more to come soon!

Anyways…I was so exhausted that once onboard I promptly fell asleep missing the dinner service. I woke up about 90 minutes out of Frankfurt and had breakfast. It was a great flight from what I remember, but commenting on service is unfair given my limited time awake. the LH business class seat is a bit old and not perfectly flat, but I didn’t seem to have any issues sleeping!

Today I’m flying ALB-IAD-ORD-IAH. When I checked in this morning, the agent was very nice (she usually is, although she’s a self-admitted non-morning-person). Seeing her at about 5am, she was very curious as to my routing today and suggested a single connection as opposed to my 2-stop itinerary. Double EQM (the current United promotion) was all she needed to hear. Understood.

The flight was totally uneventful. It was quiet, as most 6am departures are. Of note was the gate agent for the Chicago flight (which is on a mainline airbus these days). The Chicago flight leaves at 6am, followed by the GoJet 6:10am to DC. She was very forceful in her gate announcements. Everyone was to check their carry on dimensions prior to boarding. She let everyone know that 5 people yesterday had to gate-check because their bags were too big. She also made sure that everyone knew that if they had to check teir bags on the plane that eeryone qould be staring at them, and would even get mad if they delayed the flight. All of that may be true, but where did professionalism go? C’mon! In fact, she stopped 6 people this morning for trying to board with “illegal” bags. (They were perfectly fine for the airbus!) Overhead bins wouldn’t have been full. The flight certainly wasn’t. She did mention that she’s never seen so many passengers in zone 4 (she likes the PA system a lot!) If you’re curious, United has two gates in Albany on the main concourse level with a counter in between the two gates.

Our FA for this flight was very by-the-book…down to reading (verbatim) her announcements. She was the FA serving First for this particular trip. Blah blah blah. Same stuff different day I guess. I find that these GoJet crews tend to be more rigid and formal (maybe boring) than mainline or TransStates or SkyWest crews. Oh well, by the book service and a smooth touchdown in IAD.

IAD-ORD is next!

So I was completely wrong about the crew probably remaining the same. My guess is that ALB-DCA was a reserve crew given the overnight and short hop prior to being done for the day. That aside, this crew is great.

Same pre-departure beverage service. Anything that’s available. Please UA, for the love of your passengers, give up the water or oj crap. Too much oj destroys my stomach, and water is boring! I had a cup of coffee (US serves disgusting coffee compared to the “starbucks” special blend that UA serves).

Taking off from DCA, as usual, is absolutely terrible. They seem to use 2 runways…one of which is always available for express planes only. That means only 1 runway for departures and arrivals for mainline aircraft. Annoying! After a 25 minute taxi/hold, we took off towards Tampa.

It was noon somewhere, and in true FT tradition, it was time to have a cocktail. I noticed service starts as soon as we reach 10k feet instead of cruise altitude…which is a welcome change from UA. Since it’s so early, I chose my normal early morning beverage, cranberry and vodka. The great part about the first class FA on this flight was that she insisted on providing me a mini whenever I finished the previous. There were only short periods of time between when I crafted my own cocktail and when another cranberry juice or vodka was delivered. These are the time when I wish I could use my GTEMs on US.

The flight was great. Very little turbulence, nice crew, and nice flight pattern for takeoff and landing.

Some random thoughts…

The sodoku in the US magazine (which has to be the worst I’ve seen as far as the articles are concerned) is much more challenging than the UA equivalent. Much appreciated.

The uniform options for both in-flight and ground crews for US employyes are extensive. Some wear what I’d call fleece shirts. Some wear proper uniforms. And others need some help! I would normally say that this promotes laziness (I’m a suit and tie kinda guy)…but the friendliest and most customer-service oriented employees I’ve met are wearing the fleeces.

That’s all for now. We’re on final. Not a bad trip all-in-all!

Typically I’d fly UA through ORD and IAD on a trip like this for some extra miles and an extra segment. Unfortunately, that’s not an option today since this (gasp) 1-stop flight is my only option to arrive around the same time as my dad and the crew. Now, let me briefly touch on the horrors of a 1-stop flight. Most importantly, mileage isn’t computed for each segment. Instead, I’ll get mileage as if this was a non-stop from Albany. Terrible, really. Second, and not so important, is that I’ll probably be stuck with the same crew DCA-TPA. As we found out on the FlyerTalk 1 trip recently, a crew change can be for better or worse!

So onto the first leg ALB-DCA. On the ground, I found US to be on par with UA (at least in Albany). United has the red carpet, but most of the gate agents don’t enforce the rules regarding it…so basically there is no point. US hasn’t picked up on the special boarding. Another interesting difference in boarding is that US boards special needs passengers and families with young children first (no difference here). Next, they board first class and all elite members of their frequent flyer program (dividend miles) at the same time. Even in Albany, on a small 737-400, the number of folks who qualified for this round of boarding (zone 1) had me waiting in line for several minutes. Having a first class passenger “read the boarding zone” off his or her boarding pass seems so boring. Just put “first class” like United does. So much classier!

Upon boarding I was met by two flight attendants. Both extremely friendly given the 5:45am boarding time. One seemed a little too friendly…if you know what I mean

So far, so good. I settle into my seat. Wow! How ugly, dirty, and uncomfortable. I definitely prefer the United first class seat! United has cloth seats with adjustable headrests, whereas US Airways uses hard leather with absolutely no headrest. Plus the US gray seats just make everything so dismal looking. As was the case a few years ago when US was my carrier of choice, there are pen marks all over the seatback in front of me. Also par with the course a few years ago…the seatback pocket is so old that it no longer stays firmly attached to the seat…and almost touches my legs. Pathetic.

Next up is pre-departure beverage service. US has UA beat here. Any beverage is fair game. Coffee is served similar to UA – in styrofoam cups. All other pre-departure beverages are served in plastic cups. The thing is that US has cups that are almost triple the size of the UA 2-sip cups.

Pushback was 10 minutes early and liftoff was right at scheduled departure time. That never happens!

I don’t really have anything to say about the inflight service on this hour flight…except I never did get my coffee!!! We’re about 15 minutes away from DC now, so it’s time to go!

Ciao for now!

If you don’t mind, I’d rather address the issues first…and then get on to the good stuff. In the spirit of being thankful, I’ll attempt to keep the negative dialogue as brief as possible. The one major issue with our flight, “United FlyerTalk 1″, aka United 153, was the catering. As I will discuss later, the flight was downgraded from a domestically-configured Boeing 767 to a Boeing 757 within a day of our departure. This significantly decreases the number of first class seats and would have been an absolute disaster for our trip. More explaination to follow, but what ultimately happened was that our (now reinstated) 767 flight was catered as if it were, in fact, a 757. That means catering for about 10 less people than actually existed in first. To me, being one of less than 5 first passengers not holding 1K status, this meant no meal choice, no warm nuts, no metal silverware (I believe I received a crew plastic silverware/napkin combo…the kind fast food places give out), and :gasp: a lack of Tanqueray! I seriously hope the FAs still had the opportunity to eat something! The purser on our flight offered whatever my seatmate wanted from her meal as his special meal was not loaded.

Now the only thing my lack of status (I’m only Premier Executive) deprived me of was real silverware. The lack of alcohol and nuts was due to the wrong catering. Nuts were served front to back and I was in 5H. The crew was 100% apologetic and it was obvious they were embarrassed by the mistake. No biggie. My issues today SFO-JFK, or now SFO-ORD to (maybe IAD-JFK tomorrow or LGA take the cake)…but I’m a FlyerTalker and the extra segment(s) and EQM are good, right?

Enough with the negativity…because the entire day was absolutely fantastic and so many people need to be acknowledged for the time and effort they put into affording us FlyerTalkers a day we will never forget!

Some back-story…United’s Captain Flanagan has always been known (both inside and outside the FlyerTalk community) as one of (if not) the most customer-focused Captains at United. Before every flight, he visits with customers in the gate area and discusses the flight, answering questions, and reinforcing the crew’s focus on safety, etc. When was the last time you had a Captain come speak to you prior to boarding? Onboard, he continues his customer-focused enthusiasm by answering questions during boarding, and even invites anyone to send questions up to the flight deck via any FA so he can answer them. This man is first class all the way! That being said…

About half of our group, including myself, arrived from Richmond on a TransStates (United Express) ERJ145. Can’t pass up an opportunity for more segments and EQMs, right? During normal operations, this flight would arrive into the F concourse, but this was no ordinary day. Thanks to the amazing folks in United Operations, we pulled into a C gate. Little did we know (at that point) how much thought goes into each and every aircraft movement at Chicago’s O’Hare airport – at least at the UA-managed gates.

We were met by a group of FlyerTalkers who were joining us in Chicago for the “main event”…Captain Flanagan’s ORD-SFO UA153 flight. Ben, a very frequent traveler (and the FlyerTalker who organized this event), had informed us a few days before the flight that we had a special tour at ORD planned to see some of the behind-the-scenes action. I was excited, but little did I know how many aspects of the operation we would be able to see…let alone all of the amazing folks that we’d have the honor and priveledge of meeting on this very special day.

After we said hello to the group of FlyerTalkers who met our flight, and after making a quick stop to ensure all our gifts for the crew were in order, we met up with a couple fantastic United Public Relations employees. Let me tell you this…if these two ladies were the faces who everyone associates with the airline…no one would fly anyone else. The sheer energy, honesty, and love they have for United speaks volumes for the company they are apart of. It almost felt like family.

They led us downstairs at ORD to the employee areas where we entered the flight ops conference room. There, we were met by Captain Flanagan himself, our amazing First Officer, Luke, and a slew of other United employees who had essentially donated their time to take us on tours, to answer questions, and to insure we had a great few hours at ORD. To all the employees who donated their time, thoughts, and effort on this day…I (and everyone who visited) thank you whole-heartedly.

Four different tours were setup for us. The order was dependent on our group number, so I’ll go in the order that my group went. On a side note, groups were 4-5 people so we all had an opportunity to ask our questions and really got a sense of life at United ORD. It was fantastic!

First for our group was a visit to the United tower. This is the tower that is tasked with assigning gates and managing aircraft movements within the gate area. Wow! It’s a lot of work, but let me assure you that this group is in control and absolutely knowledgable in regards to what they do. Besides the work they do, I was very impressed by the personal stories I heard on our tour. United seems to promote from within. 3 employees are in charge of different sections of the ramp. The career stories included starting as a CS agent, then becoming a supervisor, then working up to tower control. Amazing! Way to go UA!!! On a side note, the technology (some fairly new) that the controllers utilize is fantastic. Given my IT background, I still am fairly unimpressed with the system-to-system communication…but this is a reality in our evolving age.

Next up was a trip to United ORD Operations. WOW! Imagine a corporate setting where people manage thousands of flights with the unknown occuring without warning at a moments notice. Be it a storm, onboard medical emergency, or maintenance issue…this group gets to deal with the issue (and the fallout). Utterly amazing. More awesome technology here. If only all of the consumer systems were updated in real-time…but I digress. Cheers to all the employees in ops who work 24 hours a day (selflessly) to provide a seamless travel experience for UA flyers!

The next stop for our group was the UA company store. It’s located off to the side of the cafeteria. It is small, but has pretty much everything a flight crew might need. TravelPro luggage, luggage tags, shirts, and other United goodies. I picked up my token shotglass and was happy

The final stop on our tour was baggage. I wish I could remember the name of the lady who conducted the tour, but she was fantastic! Baggage ops at ORD are truly incredible. 6 miles of baggage lines, sorters, and automated technology. Of course, it’s still up to humans to deliver your bags to your flight…but wow. I will definitely think twice about having a fit the next time my bags don’t make it. I wish every traveller had the same opportunity to visit the operation. One word: massive!!!

So that concluded our stay at ORD, and it was time to head upstairs to board our domestic-config 767 for the 4 1/2 hour flight to SFO. We made it to the gate at the same time Captain Flanagan was doing his pre-boarding talk. Following his talk, we did our group picture, received handouts of our flightplan, and boarded UA 153 (as we knew it at the time) ready to settle in on our relatively short mid-con adventure. 4 1/2 hours was the scheduled flying time…and usually that would be a decent amount of airtime…but today it would pass before we knew it.

Once onboard, we received 767 trading/business cards. We received a mainline set earlier in the day too! I settled into 5H amongst a ton of excitement. Shortly after settling in, the United PR representative who joined us on the flight (she was fantastic) passed out United trivia sheets for us to complete. I ended with a pathetic 9 out of 15 questions correct. Hey! They were tough! We never found out who won. Maybe it’s posted on FlyerTalk…but I haven’t had a chance to check yet.

First Class was almost entirely full with FlyerTalkers, so the cabin felt more like a lounge than a aircraft cabin. FAs were attentive and friendly without getting in our way as we milled about. The few folks in F who weren’t FlyerTalkers were great sports and I think they got a kick out of us. I’ll try to come back and fill-in more details later. I have a bunch of pictures too that I’ll get around to posting (after I go through them myself).

Cheers for now!

We’re in the same E145 that brought us into Richmond. They even changed the Hemispheres magazines for us. Woohoo. They do realize that about 1/2 the plane flies over 100,000 miles a year on this airline and they’ve already read this month’s issue 10 times, right? Even I have.

The flight crew changed. It was previously discussed as “for better or for worse”. Nothing against our last FA, but it was definitely for the better! Our new FA is definitely funner (my iPhone obviously doesn’t have legally blonde vocabulary because funner was a difficult word for it to allow).

So the first beverage service has begun and it is painfully slow. Not because our FA is slow, but because we’re quickly depleting the liquor supply. She’s made 3 trips back to the galley to restock and she’s only made it to row 14. At least UA is making a large group of 1Ks (and this humble 1P) very happy. Not to mention this flight has to take the record for most 1K drink chits collected on an express flight. It certainly holds the title of most 1Ks on an RJ!

So return trip 4 was just made. I’m assuming it’ll only take 1 more round for this flight to be dry. It’s probably for the better since we all need to be functional for the tour we have been priveledged enough to have been invited to at ORD. No climbing into the overhead bins folks

My g&t is almost gone…so it’s time to figure out how that is going to be replenished. I’ll be back at some point.