All things travel.
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…
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….
Bonus miles/points can trigger a Pavlovian response for me – dangle the possibility of earning more miles/points and I start salivating before I have even read the fine print. My heart races even when its not a program I normally care about. Take this email: I’ve been selected! (I feel special.) DOUBLE POINTS! (That’s twice…
Living in Texas, you’d think I’d be used to bad parking jobs. My daily grind typically involves an obnoxious parker just about everywhere I go: my morning Starbucks run where at least two of the regulars have a fetish for using the handicapped spaces when they are in a hurry even though they lack a…
No matter how bad your last flight was, chances are your last seatmate was not THIS horrible. A Modern Family editor, Ryan Case, live-Tweeted an account of one passenger’s in-flight antics late on Sunday. The 64 separate and progressively funnier (in a life-is-stranger-than-fiction kind of way) Tweets paint a vivid picture of the scene unfolding…
Interesting fact #1: The last two hotels I have stayed in have had earplugs strategically placed on the nightstand when I checked in. Interesting fact #2: I have ended up with disruptive noise from the room next door to me on my last two hotel stays. Coincidence? Or correlation? In the case of the first…
For me, some hotels will always be places where I primarily sleep, no matter the purpose of my trip. Doing hotel reviews for properties like this becomes a bit skewed when no matter what the purpose of my trip, I see the same things on the property each time. The Sheraton Sonoma County Petaluma, in…
We share six Uber secrets you MUST know before you request your next ride. These will help your Uber driver plus save you time and money as an Uber passenger. Our writer/driver shares tips on how to use the app, improve navigation, why ratings are important for you (the Uber passenger), and what information your Uber driver knows about you.
Friends of felines, rejoice. New York City may be getting a permanent cat café if crowdfunding plans are successful, according to this piece from The Gothamist. Little Lions seeks to be one part tea house, one part cat sanctuary where cat lovers can sip their favorite beverage while being rubbed on by resident kitties. The idea originates from…
It’s Throwback Thursday and time for another retro trip report. This one takes us back to early August 2008. That was a big change year for me… I was eight months into owning the house I had at this point dubbed “the money pit”. My (then) business partner had a 9-month old little girl at home and we…