All things travel.
Vegas is fine until you get tired of Vegas. Or when you need Vegas to not be Vegas at all, but just another city you are in for business. That’s why I’m a regular at The Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa (formerly The Westin Casuarina Las Vegas Hotel). Arrival I arrived in a…
I’m excited to be sailing on Golden Princess this afternoon out of Los Angeles. This will be a quick three-day cruise to Ensenada and back. While three days is definitely not enough time to take advantage of every feature the ship has, it will still be a fun journey. This will be the shortest cruise I’ve taken to…
I stayed last night at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. It was a comfortable place to be for a Thursday night stay. I was able to return my rental car (after picking up a bottle of wine at BevMo), get takeout from The Daily Grill downstairs, and was up in my room in time for…
I’ve been going back through my old blog looking to see if there is anything there I feel like salvaging for here – it feels weird that Jetsetter’s Homestead is a “clean slate” when I have five years of prior content (2005-2009) out there on a locked-down website. But then I read a paragraph like…
A recent traveler to Indonesia has brought home an unusual souvenir – a venomous tropical spider from Bali. But that’s not the scary part. The creepy end of the story is that he didn’t know it until he returned home! The Huffington Post video details some of the more graphic details of the story….
I hate early morning drives to the airport. Sometimes its much easier to stay overnight at an airport hotel and avoid the risk of missing my flight due to traffic. That was my aim when I booked a stay at the Sheraton Grand Hotel DFW Airport. Arrival I knew that hotel was wrapping up a…
How to earn rental credit days with National which can result in a free convertible, free SUV, or other free car rental after as few as five rental days.
If you think airlines have the monopoly on rip off pricing for checked luggage, hope and pray they never take lessons from trade show charges. Many of you may, at some point in your career, be a trade show exhibitor because trade shows are BIG business, especially behind the scenes. It’s an industry where they can…
I’m wrapping up day three in San Diego during one of their busiest conference/convention weeks of the year. As I noted yesterday, juggling one’s time at conferences is difficult (especially when Magic Johnson changes your schedule). While everyone back home thinks you are playing (and certainly, conferences should offer some time for fun while networking),…
Occasionally I procrastinate when booking a hotel. My luck is such that I somehow time these episodes when there are major events in town and I am left with a limited range of options to pick from that don’t require me to donate a kidney. That is how I ended up at the Sheraton Atlanta…
Fox News has advice for you on combinations to avoid on your next trip to the bar (and surprisingly none of them involve liberals)! Their top five “dangerous cocktails” are: The Hurl Hurl The Zombie The Vaportini The Tequila Blue Blazer Corpse Reviver #2 While I find their list interesting, it just seems too tame…
Fans headed to the college football classic Red River Shootout (better known in theses parts as Texas/OU Weekend) take note. Texas and Oklahoma both have higher rates of heart disease compared to national statistics. Some might equate this to the coronary-inducing performances of both teams at times. Or it might be the unequivocal love of…