This is a critical week to check your frequent travel accounts. With less than 13 weeks to go before the end of the year, it is important to check on how you are pacing towards your 2016 status goals. At this point in the year, you should be at the 75% mark or ahead –…
I have a good excuse for why I only recently discovered the amazing town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Yes, I’m 16 years late to the party. I have a good excuse though. When Gilmore Girls debuted in 2000, I was just out of grad school. I was transitioning full time into the world of management consulting. Traveling…
This week I believe I may have sunk to a new low in work/life balance – I was blow-drying my hair while on a conference call. Seriously. Fear not, the phone was on mute and also on speaker – and I was following every word. I finished packing while on the next call, paid the gardener, and got…
Crafting the perfect out of office reply is an art form. Take basic information, mix with corporate culture (or policy), sprinkle in a bit of advanced email programming, and perhaps just a dash of “I’m on vacation and you aren’t” and you may have the perfect out of office reply. I struggle always with how much…
As we edge into the first full week of July, it is officially the 2016 travel halfway point. If you are chasing status, today is an important day to do a quick check on how you are pacing towards those goals as there is still plenty of time to catch up. I have several goals…
I’ve been keeping a low profile lately lest I lose my head. Interpret that both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, it has been a crazy eight weeks since we last left off with me crying at the end of a fantastic vacation. I’ve tackled 12 trips, wrangled several major projects in my professional, volunteer, and personal spheres,…
I am one of those emotional girls who does emotional things like crying on vacation. I cry when reading books. I cry when reading stories on Facebook. I cry watching movies (especially Love Actually). I cry walking through the arrivals hall at T5 at Heathrow. Every bloody time (blame Love Actually). So yes, of course…
With a tiny bit of planning, it can be effective to remote work from anywhere, even the Maldives. Okay… who the heck am I kidding? I can’t speak authoritatively on working from the Maldives. I may be the last travel blogger on the planet who has not been to the Maldives (and I have no…
I’ve always thought men had it much easier when it came to professional clothing. Suit, shirt, tie… done. Sure, perhaps more casual work wardrobes can add a bit of a snag. It might be tough to understand which types of slacks work for which occasion. Or how to mix a sports coat or sweater into…
Why do you travel? Its a question I’m sometimes asked – by neighborss, by friends, by strangers sitting next to me on airplanes, by the man across from the table from me on a first date.. Why do you travel? It seems like such an easy question to answer – and yet one that I have…
I’ve recently experienced Ad Hoc by Thomas Keller at both the land-based Yountville restaurant and on the luxury cruise line Seabourn. The Ad Hoc concept has been a long-favorite of mine when visiting the Napa Valley but I wanted to understand how the current concepts stacked up against one another. You can read Part I:…
Last night I had the opportunity to review Ad Hoc by Thomas Keller as executed on Seabourn Quest. Yesterday I reviewed my experience at the land-based Ad Hoc in Yountville, California and also discussed the new Seabourn partnership with Thomas Keller. Much of the Ad Hoc experience appeals to the farm-to-table aesthetic that has been…