What a week! I’ve been on vacation onboard Seabourn Odyssey since November 23, cruising down the eastern coast of Indonesia (from Singapore to Bali). It has been a grand adventure so far. I’ve visited the ancient temple sites of Prambanan and Borobudur (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites), the busy industrial cities of Jakarta and Surabaya, and trekked…
Happy Monday! For those in the US, it’s an especially happy one because it is a three-day work week for many. Me? I’m not working at all. In fact, while you are reading this, I’m enjoying a sea day on Seabourn Odyssey as I begin day two of my Singapore to Bali cruise. I left…
Brrrr…. That one utterance could sum up this past week. I am decidedly NOT ready for winter. I left for a quick trip to South Carolina last Monday to see a client. When I landed in Columbia, I was sweating. But when I took off from Charleston the next morning, I knew that it was the last…
Happy Monday! I’m having one of those weeks where I was happy when the alarm went off this morning and I could jump back into my routine (which today saw me catching an 8 am flight to the east coast). This is a two trip week so I’ll get to sleep in my own bed…
Hello sunshine! I’m waking up in a sun-filled hotel room in Northern California this morning after a lovely wine-soaked celebration last night hosted and attended by a few of my long-time friends originally met through FlyerTalk.com almost 15 years ago. It was a wonderful reminder of one of the best things about all these years…
What a week… I am just now digging out from a major pileup at work and regaining some traction. My Monday somehow completely disappeared so I’m a day late on my weekly recap. Its funny but being at home is tougher for me with productivity than being on the road. When I’m at home there…
Greetings from AA 1672, somewhere 33,000 feet over Arizona (or perhaps further east by the time I finish this weekly recap). I am so excited to be headed home. Nine days is a stretch (especially when you have shared rooms for 6 of those 8 nights) and I am craving the comforts of home – a…
Hello from sunny San Diego! Nothing like waking up to the smell of salt air… I may be a Texan, but I love the ocean. When I sat down to write the weekly recap, I realized I had an awfully busy posting week! I didn’t plan it that way, but sometimes that’s how it works…
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…
It has been nice to have a chunk of my week at home. I got back from Vegas late on Monday, caught up on local appointments (doctor, dentist, etc.), had a couple of happy hours with friends, and then took a road trip down to Austin for a board meeting. I love my travel time…
Another week has flown by! This last week I slept in five different hotels in three different cities. The best part of my week just ended – the Boarding Area conference. We had around 80 blogger attendees (both from our Boarding Area and Prior2Boarding networks as well as other invited travel bloggers) and had the…
You might notice I just tried to sneak two weeks into my weekly recap. I was hoping you might NOT but it’s glaringly there. I did take a few days off around Labor Day so my feed was lighter than normal so no weekly recap last week – just not enough to report so I…