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LOS ANGELES
The highlight of being home, besides playing beach volleyball and hanging out with my friends, was that I did three interviews for ABC News in a week! Here are the links from segments one and two (the third hasn't aired yet). I also did a ton of radio interviews including Peter Greenberg's show and WGN Radio in Chicago. More good news: JohnnyJet.com partnered with MedjetAssist and I'll be a travel contributor to the Medjet eNewsletter. Exciting, isn't it?

THE BACHELOR
For all you ladies out there, I bet you'll be jealous when I tell you that I went to a small birthday dinner for a friend from Connecticut, at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills and sat next to Andy Baldwin from ABC's The Bachelor. He's a cool guy and might be contributing travel stories to JohnnyJet.com in the near future. And yes, that's the beautiful Marla Maples next to me, who's also very cool!



BRITNEY SPEARS
Speaking of celebrities ... I was at the Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey attending the Oneworld Airline Alliance media briefing when they announced their newest member, Mexicana Airlines. It was surreal to meet all the Chief Executives of Oneworld Airlines but truthfully, the most exciting part was when I was in the lobby, filling my glass with the best watermelon-mint juice ever, and all of a sudden, I see a group of what I thought were teenage kids running into the lobby. I thought it was weird that the valets were grabbing them (as a way to tell them no running in the hallways ... ?) but it turned out they were grabbing the paparazzi chasing Britney Spears. She literally almost bowled me over, running down the corridor. One of the paparazzi broke through and chased her all the way down the hall, getting a couple of shots before being tackled. If I hadn't been sipping my sophisticated KoolAid, I could've helped her out and given the pap a hip-check into the wall, but it all happened so fast I didn't know what was going on until it was too late.

BEVERLY HILTON
Also this week was the annual Canadian Media Marketplace, held at the Beverly Hilton. The Canadians put on quite a show by flying down all of their major tourism players (Air Canada, Via Rail, hotels and city and provincial tourism boards). Also in attendance were popular musicians, the 2010 Olympian Mascots, mixologists, chefs, even the zip-trekking guys from Whistler, who set up a line that people could fly across at the big party at Paramount Studios' Sound Stage 10. Since I rarely (if ever) stay at a hotel in L.A., I decided to spend the night. I've got to say: I was quite impressed with the Beverly Hilton's rooms and service ... the valet guys even left me a bottle of water in my car. The hotel just had an $80 million renovation and my room in the Wilshire Tower was spacious and plush. It had a flat screen TV, rain showerhead and a really comfortable bed. Two things I didn't like: I could hear horns once in a while from impatient drivers along Santa Monica Boulevard and the A/C in the room was right above the bed so it blew on my neck throughout the night. Other than that, it was a great experience. TIP: A friend taught me a trick to get free high-speed Internet access there. Log on to the Internet for the first time in the lobby using the free WiFi. Then, when you go up to your room, the system will remember that IP address and not the one in the room, which costs $10 a day. The Beverly Hilton, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, Tel: 310-274-7777.

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