The following month, Politico announced that Kim would soon start a new full-time job in the administration, but not before she reviewed a Windstar cruise to the Dalmatian coast. Like many aspiring travel writers, Kim sells coverage of brand- and tourism board-sponsored media junkets, known as “familiarization trips,” or FAMs, to publications that don’t cover freelance writers’ travel expenses, let alone provide writers a living wage, according to dozens of emails she sent to me between 2016 and 2018. In July 2016, for example, Kim reviewed first-class travel on the Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar airlines for Town & Country. Town & Country paid a flat rate of $150 for digital travel stories that year, the equivalent of round-trip taxi fare between Manhattan and Kennedy Airport, according to then-web editor Sam Dangremond. Dangremond could not be reached to comment specifically on Kim’s rate or whether the magazine paid her expenses. I know all this because in 2016, I too was working to make a name for myself as a travel writer.

Or you can charter the entire boat and go wherever you want. David Econopouly of GM Yacht Charters has gathered together the best boats and some of the finest and most entertaining skippers in Greece to offer a large number of specialized sailboat or motor-yacht cruises for honeymooners, archaeologists, people traveling with their pets, disabled, students, naturalists, and more. Did you know you can get great discounts on hotels, cruises and tours if you come as a group? And you won’t have to negotiate with the hotels one-by-one. Everything is taken care of and all you have to do is make sure everyone gets on the plane. The most important sites are in the Greek mainland and include Delphi, Meteora, Nafplion, Corinth, Myceneae, Epidavros, Olympia and others. Take a look at Fantasy Travel’s mainland tours which are anywhere from a half day to seven days and are very reasonably priced. They can be combined with an island or two or a short cruise.

But the billionaire’s most luxurious planes were a pair of 737 jets he had retrofitted like a lounge, complete with recliners, love seats, mahogany dining and card tables and gourmet food. At least two times in the mid 2000s, Huizenga sent one of them to pick up Thomas and deliver him to Fort Lauderdale, said John Wener, the flight attendant on board. Wener recalled chatting with the justice about his nomination to the Supreme Court and the tumultuous Senate confirmation hearings after Thomas’ former aide, Anita Hill, accused him of sexual harassment. “He said, ‘Just imagine a job interview and you’re in front of 100 people that hate you,’” Wener recalled Thomas remarking. “‘How would that interview go? In the early 2000s, Huizenga gave Thomas something that was priceless at the time: a standing invitation to his exclusive, members-only golf club, the Floridian. Designed by golf legend Gary Player, the course was lined with cottages for Huizenga’s friends, a yacht marina for them to dock and a helipad if they wanted to fly in.

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