I know I'm supposed to be doing this 'budget holiday' thing but this happened by mistake. I didn't notice it when I was booking my flights for Hawaii but somehow I ended up with a first class ticket. It was only for the 20 minute flight from Kauai island to Honolulu to connect for my flight to the mainland. I checked in at the first class desk for the first time ever in my life and the woman told me there was a first class lounge near the gates. The Lihue airpor...

I'm in Seattle now and I just had the longest and worst bus ride of my life! It started in Rapid City, South Dakota and my bus was an hour late arriving. But we managed to make up nearly all of the time by Billings, Montana so so far it wasn't bad. It was midnight at that point. Then at Billings they called my bus, which was slightly late, but said there were two buses, because there were so many people, and they called out the destinations for the first bus, wh...