This 5.5 hour overnight stay may officially qualify as my shortest hotel overnight that was not the result of A) a wild night on the town, B) irregular airline operations, or C) a stay in an international transit hotel. In the case of either of the examples above, I’ve generally known and accepted that the hotel…
News about hiking normally doesn’t catch my eye. I love the outdoors, but trekking around in the woods is generally not my thing. This story, however, surprised me. A hiker discovers an abandoned town just hiding in the middle of Smoky Mountains National Forest. The discovery is the second forgotten find in the national forest in the last couple of years. Click here…
Thinking through this weekly recap, it strikes me how lucky I was that I got to spend the entire week at home. It’s always a nice luxury for me in between travel weeks to have that slice of time to catch up in my office and run a few errands around the neighborhood. This is…
I think I drove a little too much for Uber this weekend… busy weekend, good money to be had doing mostly short runs in my neighborhood – how could I turn that down? It seems like Uber-like products are all the rage as both Uber and Lyft experiment with new “on demand” services with one-day…
Week after week of life on the road can wreck havoc on my body. Eating can become one of those exercises where I am left with few choices – eat what’s on the plane or available at the airport or whatever my client has put out. Even when I get time to choose, sometimes after…
Nancy Grace isn’t the only one who worries about women who go missing. I’ve hit the point in my years of travel (often solo travel) where thoughts of safety become a nagging voice in the back of my head. “If I went missing on the road, would anyone know where to start looking?” Reading stories…
Heads up for fans of bohemian style accents. Gilt.com just opened a sale one-of-a-kind throws and pillows from vintage kantha pieces. Kantha is a type of embroidered fabric made from saris stitched together by hand and found in parts of SE Asia. These pieces are from Taj Hotel Design Concepts. The hand stitched 50″x60″ throws…
Another day, another airport hotel. Sometimes it feels like Groundhogs Day around here. But then something happens that snaps me out of my airport hotel funk… that thing most recently was the Westin Atlanta Airport. Arrival After a shuttle wait at the airport’s ground transportation stop that was anything but chivalrous, I boarded the…
Navigating an airport for the first time can be a nerve wracking experience for any first-time flyer. But mix airports and autism together and you can have a highly stressful situation for that traveling family. Sensory overstimulation is often a fear for parents of autistic children. How their child might deal with situations outside their…
I subscribe to a monthly shipment from Stitch Fix, an online personal shopping service. Women who try the service create their own custom profile so that they can try new wardrobe additions to fit their lifestyle, figure, and needs. September was box #5 for me. Through my first four boxes, I kept a total of…
If you want to revisit the golden age of the jet set, a time when travel was a stylish affair highlighted by space age innovation, you can. And you don’t need a TARDIS to get you there either. For one day this month, the architecturally-iconic former TWA terminal at JFK (nee Idlewild) will open to the public….
I love the feeling of checking into familiar chain hotels. I do not often get to check into luxury properties, so I have accepted what “my normal” looks like. And nothing screams “normal” to me like consistency. Consistency was exactly what I was looking for when I checked into the Hyatt Place Reno-Tahoe International Airport….