I’m not in the market right now, but I thought some of my loyal readers might be.

SAS is having an amazing sale:  $400 + taxes (comes to around $470) round trip from Newark or Chicago to Copenhagen or Stockholm; also Washington, D.C. or Seattle to Copenhagen.

The Seattle one is especially amazing.  You never see good deals like that from the west coast.

Travel dates are for Thanksgiving and January 11-March 22, ’07.

SAS has a new booking engine, and I highly recommend it.  It’s giving me very reasonable prices (e.g. ones that our vouchers will almost cover) on exactly the itinerary I want, which is Cedar Rapids to Rome.  Before it was quoting me seriously $10,000 on that route, when Chicago > Milan was like $900.  Obviously the latter is preferable, but it means getting from Cedar Rapids to Chicago and Milan to Rome, which adds time and money to the total.  The new booking engine seems to realize the ridiculousness of the $10,000 quote and adjusts accordingly.  Yay for advances in booking technology!

Denny (finally) posted his Norway pictures. Enjoy.

Also:  as you may have noticed, I posted a little picture and “about” section over there on the right.  Is that stupid?  It’s something I always appreciate when I read someone’s blog, but I think 90% of my readership is friends and family anyway, so maybe it’s unnecessary.  I did feel a bit doofy when I first saw it.

I think I’ll give it a couple of days and see if I get used to it or not.