Welcome Ms Divine!

Deb Malmon, the other full-time person here at Adventures in Good Company, got married last weekend to her long-time partner Sean Divine. You can see pictures of the happy event on our Facebook page . In true guidely fashion, although she did leave her hiking boots at home and trade her hiking pants for a dress, the event took place over the weekend at a campground and the honeymoon suite was a tent. She and Sean arranged almost everything and a lovely time was had by all. She actually is not going to take his last name- she says that Deb Divine sounds like a porn star and besides, she has had her name for 40 years and prefers to keep it.

All of us at Adventures in Good Company congratulate Deb on her marriage and look forward to the time when anyone who wants to make a long-term commitment to his or her partner enjoys the same civil right!

Airline to avoid

Sometimes an airline develops the stink of failure. Two prime symptoms: 1) the prices are low. By itself, this is not necessarily a red flag. But if you couple that with 2) they start canceling flights, then you know they are in trouble. Couple that with 3) bad PR, and you know the low price is because they are desperate to get more fliers. But here's the problem- if you give in to the lure of the low price, are you sure they will still be flying when you have the ticket for? And even if they are still alive, if they are canceling flights left and right, what good does your ticket do anyway?

Last Sunday I was sitting in the Manchester NH airport. My Southwest flight had been rescheduled because of earlier bad weather in the area that had a domino effect. But all the flights were still going, just late. In contrast US Airways had 3 flights. They canceled the first and the last- not rescheduled, but out and out canceled. So anyone who was on the late flight who didn't check flight status (because maybe they were on vacation) would be out of luck. And anyone on the earlier flight would simply get home much later. On that same night one of our guides trying to get to Maine had her US Airways flight canceled and she had to buy a whole new ticket.

So that does it for me. We are not booking any more US Airways flights to anywhere ever again, no matter what the price. Some times it is time for an airline to disappear. I would argue that it is that time for US Airways.