Wynn’s Las Vegas has established TeamExtreme as a 2-1 favorite to bring home the gold.

Sheri is traipsing in the jungles of the Yucatan and hasn’t been heard from in days.  I’m just back from a weekend in Germany and am only slightly frantic trying to pack and get my taxes done!

About 8 years ago, I posted on FlyerTalk to do my first mileage run and to see if anyone wanted to come along.  Sheri wisely pointed out that there is no sales tax in New Hampshire.  A weekend of early holiday shopping was in order.  We met at the airport.  We’ve managed to travel and find our share of mischief ever since.  I would say Sheri has found more mischief, she would say it was I, but she’s somewhere in the jungles of the Yucatan, evading captors – again, and can’t weigh-in on the subject!

I’m fairly sure I will see her dashing through CLEAR about 15 minutes before our flight Sunday morning.

Elizabeth

Team You Be Thema, I’ll Be Louise

Geo and chex want to be your favorite team.

Please root for us. We want to be your favorite. We want to be everyone’s favorite so we can win the “Fan Favorite” prize of $50,000 and 500,000 miles.

• We’re funny.
• We’re smart.
• We’re charming.
• We’re not above groveling for support.

3 days until takeoff.

While our teams finish their last day of work or current road trips and begin positioning themselve to be in New York by Sunday for the start of this travel challenge, we get to look over the team lists and begin picking who we think will be the winners. I don’t know at this point, I’m still laughing at the various team names and of course re-reading the team applications on why they wanted to be in this competition.

I’m kind of thinking  the team with the “washed up air traffic controller” (his words!), but if there is anyone that really know directions it’s got to be the sailing guy team. But when it comes to “bragging rights,” we’re likely to never hear the last from that Stimulus Package and those crafty Thelma and you be Louise ladies. At this point, they really are all my favorites and there are some underdogs as enter our own version of (travel) March Madness.

If you’ve got some ideas on who you think may be the winning team, why not post in the “comments” by clicking on the number listed below the date on the left hand side of this post.

For those finding this blog for the first time, you may be interested in the chatter and dialogue back on FlyerTalk. Here’s two links that we think you’ll find interesting and maybe even your first introduction to FlyerTalk.

Here’s the thread in which we recruited the teams we are now sponsoring. Read for yourself why they wanted to be part of this travel competition:

Team Recruiting

And here’s the individual applications for our teams if you really want to find out what they had to offer to be selected:

Team Stimulus Package – George and Mike (sponsored by FlyerTalk)
Team Application

Team You Be Thelma, I’ll Be Louise – Sheri and Elizabeth (sponsored by FlyerTalk)
Team Application
Additional Application

Team Royal Roadies – Jen and Caitlin (sponsored by FlyerTalk)
Caitlin
Jen

Team Swizzle – Caroline and Bill (sponsored by FlyerTalk)
Team Application

Team Extreme – Kevin and David (sponsored by FlyerTalk)
David
Kevin

And the official team thread on FlyerTalk:

FlyerTalk Team Thread