[Rick Lee]

Wow. Talk about the power of the Internet. After going round and round with Continental, trying to find a way to either use my miles to cover one way and pay cash for the other or buy miles or transfer from another credit card, they said no dice to everything. I put it out there on Facebook, asking if I could borrow 20k miles for a month or two. Less than an hour later a long lost fraternity brother, with whom I haven't spoken in 18 yrs., sends me a message that he can hook me up. I called Continental again and they said the way to do it with no transfer fees (normally $15 per 1000 miles) would be to have my friend just pick up my entire ticket with his miles and then I could do the same for him when he needs it in the future. Just got off the phone with my frat. bro. and he's covering the whole ticket. I pay $160 in taxes and get a RT flight to Frankfurt. Wow.