OK, I have credit for a trip to New Orleans that I obviously didn’t take. Now, I have to book a flight to somewhere by October 31 or I will lose all of the money I have invested. In trying to find a destination that intrigues me (where the amount I have invested is somewhat equal to the cost of the new destination), I find that ticket prices make no sense. How can it cost twice as much to go from California to OKC as it does to go to Tampa? Why is it that to go to Houston and continue on to San Antonio a ticket costs $278, but to stop in Houston without continuing, the ticket costs $314? Why does less cost more?  It costs less to go to Nassau, Bahamas from CA than it does to go to OKC. Sensible? I don’t think so! Why is it that if you want to go to Seattle on Continental – my money is already in their hands – you have to go to Houston first! Does that make sense? 

(OKC is used as a reference since we have family there and need to go there anyway.)

What makes something the World’s Best? How can people just attach those words to anything they want. For example, I just found a wonderful recipe for chili on the internet. It is called The World’s Best Chili. According to whom? How can someone have the right to call it that? It was delicious when I made it, but neither I nor anyone else will ever know if it is the World’s Best. 

World Famous is a different story. If someone in Germany and someone else in China and someone else in some other part of the world try the World’s Best Chili, then it could be called World Famous, but maybe not the World’s Best.