You got a bit more than five hours to enter to win my Mardi Gras giveaway of a collection of premium thrives from some of this year’ stop parades. (These aren’t your typical generic plastic beads!!!) To enter, leave a comment on my Ash Wednesday post before 11:59 pm Central Time tonight!
How to be observant on Ash Wednesday while traveling. We share the various options we’ve discovered for those travelers who wish to receive ashes on this holy day.
The middle seat. Ugh. To the unfortunate 20 to 40 percent of passengers on some flights, I hear your cry. While I cannot free you from the burden of the dreaded middle seat, I can declare your unalienable rights to maximized comfort and minimized stress while in the hot seat. Thou shalt take possession of…
I’m all about those throws… beads, beads, and more beads could easily sum up my week. But that wasn’t the only good part for the weekly recap. It’s been a good week from all sides. I got my car back, I’m in New Orleans for one of my favorite weekends, and things at work are good….
Part II of our rundown on how to Mardi Gras like a local. From Bourbon Street (yes or no?) to parades, police, drinking, and beads, we’ll help you experience New Orleans and all of Mardi Gras like a local. Our guest blogger breaks it all down in this special series.
How to Mardi Gras like a local – from terminology to travel basics, you’ll be a New Orleans pro after learning everything from what a krewe is and how to enjoy a parade (neutral ground or sidewalk?!) to ball structure and where to get the best king cake!
Business takes me to Orange County, California at least a couple of times a year and often many times more. As such, I’ve become overly familiar with many of the properties affiliated with the four loyalty programs I regularly participate in. But I like to play favorites and the Hyatt Regency Orange County ends up…
I could read it on his face. Disgust. Horror. And major annoyance. “I can’t believe this. Ridiculous!” he fumed as he stomped onto the elevator, rolling bag trailing behind him, and headed to the lobby. I totally felt his pain. The hotel was overrun with over a thousand high school students for an event. And…
It’s Sunday morning here in the OC (which no one who lives here actually calls it) and that means it is time for the weekly recap here at its new date (Sundays). My former Sunday morning Around Prior2Boarding post has moved to Saturday mornings. I’m looking out at a hazy February day that will hopefully burn…
I will always be a Fort Worth girl, no matter where I roam. I’m also unapologetically a huge geek – and always have been. The intersection of those two data points make me one of the saddest to hear about the death of Radio Shack. The hometown company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday…
I’m in week five of one of my busiest travel quarters in over a decade. I’m starting to feel the strain of the push/pull of several small trips running together (tomorrow will start my fourth weekend in a row to be gone) that are intermixed with lots of short weekday trips. All of these have…
Its easy to build up expectations before some of the world’s most famous attractions based on photos, travel guide hype, or even just imagined perceptions. But sometimes the reality can lead to tourist attractions surprises. I remember being shocked when I first visited Red Square in Moscow in 1989. I always imagined it as being much…