*Updated* Keeping Track of Miles & Points
Offer of 10 more upgrades: One of the best ways to enhance your travel experience is through the various awards and loyalty programs. There are countless airline, hotel, and credit card programs that offer upgrades, enhancements and points or miles. Keeping up with all of the different loyalty programs can sometimes be cumbersome. Recently I discovered AwardWallet and have tried it out for a few months. AwardWallet is basically a...
Royal Caribbean Plans to Send Another Ship to Galveston
Royal Caribbean is scheduled to send one of their classic ships to Galveston. The Vision of the Seas will join another Royal Caribbean ship, the Liberty of the Seas that already is in Galveston. Although the Vision was built in 1998 and was the first of the “Vision” series of ships, it recently went through a massive revitalization including upgrades to every stateroom as well as updates to all of the public spaces as...
Tradin’ Post, Thursday, April 13th, 2017:
Sofa and Love Seat for sale: Price is negotiable 903 885 6480
Royal Caribbean Releases Big Discounts on Summer Cruises
Now is the time to book a Summer Cruise if you haven’t done so already! Royal Caribbean has just released discounts on 11 different ships with over 50 sailings during the summer months. Even more sailings are included on different sailing all the way through spring of 2018. A quick check showed $500 per person off of one sailing on a 7-night Alaska cruise (outside stateroom). You must email for details as these lower rates...
NCL Offers Heavily Discounted Mediterranean Cruise
NCL Offers Heavily Discounted Mediterranean Cruise In my constant quest to find interesting and cheap cruise deals, I ran across a heavily discounted Mediterranean Cruise offered by NCL for October 2017. As always, the prices and deals I find are short lived and if you think you would like to take advantage of the savings you should act quickly. Inside cabin rates start at only $599/pp and Suites on some sailings are priced...
Aviation History: Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
Aviation History: Douglas C-124 Globemaster II The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II evolved from the earlier Douglas C-74. Many referred to the large aircraft as “Old Shakey”. The first flight by a C-124 took place on 27 November 1949. The first operational aircraft were delivered in May 1950, and production ran through May 1955 (204 C-124As and 243 C-124Cs). The improved C-124C featured more-powerful engines, as well as...
Tradin’ Post, Friday, March 28th, 2017:
For Sale: A new Bissell Upright Vacuum Cleaner . New 2-wheel large piece of luggage. Call for prices. 903-438-0513
Aviation History: Douglas C-133 Cargomaster
The following information comes from local Sulphur Springs resident Tony Hughes. Mr Hughes worked on, performed engine run up, pre-flight/post flight and flew as an aircraft mechanic observer on FCF’s (functional check flight) at the Greenville, Tx. plant, formerly known as TEMCO. The Greenville plant started as Temco (Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Co.) then changed to Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc. in 1960, then...
Tradin’ Post, Tuesday, January 31st, 2017:
For Sale: Recently Reconditioned Alto Saxaphone Call: (903) 945-2718
*Updated* The Cartoon Maps Are Back
by Chad Young After a long discussion with the owner of Community Creations, Inc. from Ohio, a lot of information has been cleared up. Joe Genco, President of the 30 year company who has delivered maps and montages to literally hundreds of different communities confirms that the current project going on in Sulphur Springs is in fact associated with his company. He called KSST offices to confirm that Community Creations TX, LLC is...
