I'm writing this post while in the Miami airport, sipping a Cuban coffee, waiting for our connection back to Pittsburgh.
So far all of our travels have gone super smoothly. We had no issues getting to the Pittsburgh airport last Thursday. We had a direct flight into Tampa, so we had an extra couple of hours to be with our family.
While we were in Tampa, we knew we didn't want to rely on borrowing Michele or Jim's car, so we rented on for the couple days we were there. I've only ever used Enterprise to rent a car, but my work had a discount with National. I was able to sign up for their Emerald Club for free. Basically what that means is that any time I want to rent a car, I reserve a mid-size vehicle, then when I pick it up I can choose from any car available in the Emerald Aisle. There were different SUVs, compact cars, a good range of mid-size, and minivans. I've never had an SUV before, so I picked a Chevy Equinox. It was super cool and easy. The keys were already in the ignition, we just had to load up our stuff, and drive away. There is a kiosk where they verify your reservation, drivers license, and credit card, then you're good to go. The whole process took us less than 5 minutes.
The only hiccup on our trip was hitting traffic on the way to the Tampa airport and not being able to eat the breakfast we wanted to. What should have taken us 25-30 minutes took us 1 hour and 15 minutes. Our flight to POP (Puerto Plata) was a quick jump over some ocean to our final island destination. We got a taxi driver pretty much as soon as we landed. I did some research and was expecting a $45 per person charge to get to our resort. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the whole thing was only $50. We landed a little after 1pm, and by 3 we were in our bathing suits relaxing on the beach.
The only bummer was that we had to come back to reality. I'll be updating the details of the rest of our trip later this week. Time to fly back to chilly Pittsburgh. Goodbye 85 degrees: Hello 43!
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