Yesterday I was starting on my second martini, lazily setting my fantasy football draft rankings while watching the sail away from Livorno (I am on vacation – 1/3rd of the way into my Grand Mediterranean adventure) when I received the most delightful of frequent travel emails – I finally achieved SPG Lifetime Platinum Status! I consider this…
I’m a couple of days late to the story (or rather in auto-post mode since I’m currently off on my Grand Mediterranean cruise) but this story caught my eye about how a woman trended on Twitter due to her live tweeting a couple’s too-public breakup on a plane. It is stories like this that make…
I’m a sucker for a good food tour. To me, there is no better way to see a great city than to eat my way through it. And what better way to do that than with a local foodie as a guide? Barcelona was the first real stop on my Grand Mediterranean adventure and where…
Greetings from Barcelona. I’m at the start of a 2+ week holiday in Europe and working my way into decompression mode. I’m traveling with my friend “The Princess” and we are here for preliminary touring before joining a 12 night Grand Mediterranean cruise on NCL Spirit. Decompression is something that takes a little bit of…
There is no denying that I’m one of those AvGeeks (aviation geeks). That behavior leads me to do some crazy things – fly on weekend mileage runs to spend 18 hours in Taipei. Or Beijing solely because of a $400 first class fare. Changing my flight and working in the airport so I can meet up with…
Travel opens doors and windows to the world. There is no denying that visiting a different place opens you up to new experiences, new sensory stimuli, new cultures, new ideas. But the darker side of being exposed to all the new horizons is that it removes the detachment factor. When it comes to international terror, travel makes…
Summer is almost over. But if you are like me, you are vacationing late. I purposely scheduled my Grand Mediterranean cruise late so that I could get to Europe AFTER most of the Americans had left and not run into the summer break for Europeans. One other bonus is that I can compile my summer…
I’m not entirely sure how I got through the last week without a single post here. I think its because I got so busy just “doing” things that I never got to it. And that’s okay. Sometimes the routines of adulthood take precedence and we find ourselves on the sofa at 10 pm, still grinding on…
Welcome to the weekly recap for the Jetsetter’s Homestead. For those of you who stumbled here via my featured stint on BoardingArea this week… welcome! I’m a management consultant who spends most of my weeks on the road. On the weekends I split my time between fun side trips and my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas…
I’m trying to put my 2014 vacation trip report to bed before I head off on my next long vacation in two weeks (a “grand” Mediterranean adventure on Norwegian Spirit). I’ve put off writing about Bali because this part of the trip was probably the most disappointing to me. I’ve been to Bali so many…
If I’m going to be whimpering on the cold tile floor of a bathroom, I’d rather it be my own. Don’t get me wrong… the hotel floor should be cleaned daily versus the every 14 days my own housekeeper comes, so in terms of hygiene, the hotel would win. But being sick away from home blows…
True confession time – I’m afraid I may be an overpacker. Don’t get me wrong… I’m not one of those people who hauls three suitcases (one full of shoes) with me on a weekend trip. Although I try not to judge people who do that (AKA many of my friends who don’t travel frequently). But…