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It always amazes me to see where we have been on a map! 15 years of travel - we have done well, beyond blessed that is for sure! Hoping to see Africa next year .. time will tell!
2019

Asia 2018 – join us?

We have put together a small group on Norwegian Cruise Line, on the Jewel to see Asia this Fall! Maybe you would like to join us?
We start this adventure in Vancouver Canada; then head north to Alaska; continuing west to Russia; turning south to Japan, (19 days). Then on to Taipei, an overnight in Hong Kong; experience Vietnam before an overnight in Bangkok, before we finish in Singapore (16 days). Wonderful pricing, great perks (over $3,000 per cabin) and of course we will be leading the cruise to assist with your port planning or if you have questions.NCL – Leg1
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Howard Johnson Wichita Airport

Thank you for your kind consideration – Howard Johnson Wichita Airport – Saul you are a terrible person. We wish you much bad karma!!!

Nice way to treat a single mom of three kids who needs to work on Monday not to mention that there is a considerable drive just to get home
… you are such a ‘swell’ guy

Hope your daughter/sister/mother never is faced with this kind of situation

We are also trying to find the driver/owner of the other car?

More pictures (taken last night when Jo arrived, includes a cinder block on the passenger side of the car – assume it was holding the satellite dish). Saul apparently reported this to his insurance just yesterday July 5 – the incident occurred on June 26 – nice he jumped right on it.

This is a post from facebook from our daughter Johanna. They parked their car there while they were visiting here in Ecuador. Saul has been anything but helpful and quite rude to be honest and will not call me at all?

For those of you that do not know, because I have been hoping against hope that someone would do the right thing. That will not be the case in this situation. We left home on the 25th of June and spent the night at Howard Johnson on Kellogg St in Wichita, KS. Instead of parking in long term parking the hotel offers free parking with a night stay. This is how my car sat 4 days after a wind storm knocked a satellite off of the hotel roof bouncing off one car onto my car. The owner Saul who also owns another hotel in Wichita never called to tell me about this. We found out while in Wichita when we book a room for the return trip. Long story short I finally talked to Saul today he told me “not to call him with this SHIT” he would not tell me the solution to the issue. Since I return tonight and live 2 1/2 hours away. Talked to his insurance agency and he did not turn it in until TODAY. The wind storm was on 6/26/2013..in my opinion NO ONE should give this man any business.

HOWARD JOHNSON WICHITA
6575 W. KELLOGG AVE.
WICHITA, KS 67209 US
Phone: (316) 943-8165
Fax: (316) 945-8018
Email: hojo7261ict@yahoo.com

Western Holiday Motel
8925 W. Kellogg
Wichita, KS 67209
Phone: (316) 722-4241
Jo car - July 2013

640 days on the market – finally sold

Selling is maybe an understatement – we gave the house away but it was time for us to move on.

DHL

My history with this company isn’t very good. This is the only delivery service that has asked me for directions to their next stop. They are also the only one that chewed me out of not having my address on the house. Then I pointed out that it is on the light pillar in the middle of the front yard. Then he told me that was to hard to see I needed it on the house. I said if you look around, most of the houses here have the address on a pillar in the front yard. Very strange, but that isn’t the point to my post. I can now say they have topped my previous experience with them.

We were leaving for a trip to Canada when we saw some charges we didn’t make appear on one of the Credit Cards. We called the Credit card people and they were going to send us a replacement card in Canada. We called the Hotel and made sure both of our names were on the registration, so there wouldn’t be a question about if we were there or not.

The day they were due to deliver the card I went to the front desk and told them what I was expecting and they made sure everyone knew. They even called the other Hotel of theirs in town in case they tried to deliver it there. Late in the day we still didn’t have the card and I kept checking with the front desk checking on it. We called the company to find out what was going on. DHL told them we were not registered at the hotel. Further they told us it would be delivered that evening. So we stayed in that night and nothing happened.

In the morning we called and all they knew was that the hotel said we were not there. I talked with the front desk and a manager wanting them to tell me why they said we were not there. They all said they didn’t and that everyone was aware of the delivery. There was no one from DHL that had been to either of the hotels it seems. So we had the company redirect the delivery to our home address here in Seattle. It didn’t show up at home.

We called the company again and they said that they would issue us yet another card and would send it regular mail. We received that card just fine but that isn’t the end of the story.

I called DHL and had them check for the package and they had no record. I called DHL Canada and they had no record of it. They looked at every package delivered to that zip-code in Canada – nothing showed. I called the company and said, are you sure you even sent us a package? They assured me they did but couldn’t give me the tracking number for security reasons. I didn’t get that, but that is ok.

After almost 3 weeks from the start of this there was a knock at the door and there was a DHL person with a package for me. You guessed it I am sure, it was the package that should have been delivered in Canada to us at the hotel. It had written on it that we were not registered at the hotel. Now that I had the tracking number I went online to see what this package had been through. I couldn’t believe the results.

There was an entry that showed it leaving for delivery in Canada. The next entry said “address information needed; contact DHL”. It said that same entry for 3 days in a row then it goes back to the Canadian DHL facility. The package sat in that facility for 8 days before it was delivered to me. And it shouldn’t have been delivered to me. They were told by the Company to return it to them 10 days before it was delivered to me.

That poor little package was in DHL’s hands for 17 days and, based on what I saw, they didn’t even try to deliver it to the hotel they just wrote on the package that we weren’t there.

I called the company one more time and told them what I had found out and recommended they get there money back from DHL and never use them again. I know I won’t use them EVER!

Remember even when I called DHL they couldn’t find any record of the package. It is no wonder that they had to pull out of USA and focus on International is it.