I may have been a bit smug a couple of weeks ago when I landed in Spain and hit the ground running without jet lag. Yep, definitely smug. Enough so that I ignored my usual routine of trying to at least time my sleep to adjust (with or without a tool like Jet Lag Rooster)…
I’m not always a fan of organized tours. I consider myself to be more of an experiential traveler where my idea of a great day in a new city involves random wandering about the streets, a visit to one site (major or minor), and a lot of lazy people watching done from a sidewalk café…
An Uber story is making the rounds in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. An imposter Uber driver picked up two women near the Texas Christian University campus this past weekend and allegedly initiated inappropriate contact with them. The driver approached them around 2 am near a popular off-campus bar area and told them that his scheduled…
Buongiorno! I didn’t intend to take a week off, but the hectic touring on this cruise combined with the limitations of the ship’s internet (especially when sharing a log on .with my cabin mate) made finding dedicated time to log on and write more difficult than I thought. But now I’m back just in time…
Travel and life intersect – analyzing Hurricane Katrina and the personal impact, ten years later. Jennifer shares her thoughts on the disaster and how it intersected with her travels in many ways.
Yesterday I was starting on my second martini, lazily setting my fantasy football draft rankings while watching the sail away from Livorno (I am on vacation – 1/3rd of the way into my Grand Mediterranean adventure) when I received the most delightful of frequent travel emails – I finally achieved SPG Lifetime Platinum Status! I consider this…
I’m a couple of days late to the story (or rather in auto-post mode since I’m currently off on my Grand Mediterranean cruise) but this story caught my eye about how a woman trended on Twitter due to her live tweeting a couple’s too-public breakup on a plane. It is stories like this that make…
I’m a sucker for a good food tour. To me, there is no better way to see a great city than to eat my way through it. And what better way to do that than with a local foodie as a guide? Barcelona was the first real stop on my Grand Mediterranean adventure and where…
Greetings from Barcelona. I’m at the start of a 2+ week holiday in Europe and working my way into decompression mode. I’m traveling with my friend “The Princess” and we are here for preliminary touring before joining a 12 night Grand Mediterranean cruise on NCL Spirit. Decompression is something that takes a little bit of…
There is no denying that I’m one of those AvGeeks (aviation geeks). That behavior leads me to do some crazy things – fly on weekend mileage runs to spend 18 hours in Taipei. Or Beijing solely because of a $400 first class fare. Changing my flight and working in the airport so I can meet up with…
Travel opens doors and windows to the world. There is no denying that visiting a different place opens you up to new experiences, new sensory stimuli, new cultures, new ideas. But the darker side of being exposed to all the new horizons is that it removes the detachment factor. When it comes to international terror, travel makes…
Summer is almost over. But if you are like me, you are vacationing late. I purposely scheduled my Grand Mediterranean cruise late so that I could get to Europe AFTER most of the Americans had left and not run into the summer break for Europeans. One other bonus is that I can compile my summer…