I think that the new Starbucks Mobile Order feature is the best thing to hit my iPhone this year. Now out of beta testing and available nationwide, this handy features resolves most of my #firstworldproblems when it comes to Starbucks for five reasons. No lines – I may have just gotten back an entire day of my…
“I was in five different states this week.” “I forgot I was driving my own car and kept looking for the beige Toyota in the parking garage.” “I haven’t had anything but condiments in my refrigerator in the past two months.” “I can’t remember what its like to not have jet lag.” All of these…
I often catch myself thinking “wouldn’t it be great if air travel could be more aesthetically pleasing?” Yes, I can escape to lovely first class lounges in places like Hong Kong, Frankfurt, and Doha but it’s not quite the same when I still have to walk through the terminal to pajama clad teenagers dragging dirty…
Autumn is here. My favorite season. Pumpkin spice lattes, football, and my favorite network television shows. If you follow Jetsetter’s Homestead, then you know my writing volumes have been way down since I’m at a new firm after an acquisition. My travel patterns are still heavy although not quite the same. As a result, I’ve been watching…
“I don’t know how you do this every week” a friend of mine said last night as she sat down next to me at an evening board meeting. “Its exhausting!” She was just returning from a two day trip to see a supplier, one of those trips that I believe may still be the exception…
Sometimes my sole goal in a city is to experience one taste that I’ve craved from a previous visit. On a recent visit to Istanbul, that was balik ekmek. I’d previously tried the famous fish sandwich sold under the Galata Bridge (and in other spots around Istanbul which is where I had my first taste…
Bearded hipsters meet fashion’s finest at a strange new food and culture festival in Paris. Paris by Mouth reports that a new special festival at high-end department store Le Bon Marché is celebrating all of the “best” of the New York borough as curated by their merchandisers in a bizarre Brooklyn meets Paris styling. While…
I may have been a bit smug a couple of weeks ago when I landed in Spain and hit the ground running without jet lag. Yep, definitely smug. Enough so that I ignored my usual routine of trying to at least time my sleep to adjust (with or without a tool like Jet Lag Rooster)…
I’m not always a fan of organized tours. I consider myself to be more of an experiential traveler where my idea of a great day in a new city involves random wandering about the streets, a visit to one site (major or minor), and a lot of lazy people watching done from a sidewalk café…
An Uber story is making the rounds in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. An imposter Uber driver picked up two women near the Texas Christian University campus this past weekend and allegedly initiated inappropriate contact with them. The driver approached them around 2 am near a popular off-campus bar area and told them that his scheduled…
Buongiorno! I didn’t intend to take a week off, but the hectic touring on this cruise combined with the limitations of the ship’s internet (especially when sharing a log on .with my cabin mate) made finding dedicated time to log on and write more difficult than I thought. But now I’m back just in time…
Travel and life intersect – analyzing Hurricane Katrina and the personal impact, ten years later. Jennifer shares her thoughts on the disaster and how it intersected with her travels in many ways.