Picture it… a tight connection through a difficult airport (in my case, the furthest A terminal gate at Charlotte Douglas International Airport to the furthest E terminal gate) made worse by a delayed inbound flight (runway incursion, aborted landing, no biggie). I have to dash through the airport to catch the last reasonable connecting flight…
Are you stuck at home this weekend? Tired of flipping through travel magazines and Pinterest photos of must-see destinations good for a vacation? Need to find inspiration for your next adventure? Here’s a new twist on virtual touring – travel the world through sound. When I first heard this piece on NPR a few weeks…
I read a lot of travel message boards and blogs. Its somewhat of a necessity when you travel regularly and need to be a content expert while doing so. And as I do so, I’m sometimes surprised at how much people complain about little things. But I’m working on my own skills with saying “that’s not…
I was struck my an interesting infographic posted by Loyalty Traveler yesterday discussion the paid-time off habits of US workers. It begs the question – are you taking all your vacation time each year? It is a hot topic among some of my friends. A few report work cultures where vacation is limited to times…
I’m sure this one has made the rounds already, but it’s new to me. HT to my dear friend Guy Betsy for sharing it with me yesterday as it is totally what I needed after a day of flying in coach. Ah, the lure of cheap flights…. The featured performers are from a UK-based cabaret…
DFW Airport public transit finally became a reality this morning as the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Orange Line began running to and from DFW’s a Terminal A in the pre-dawn hours. The DFW station is the 62nd in the transit line’s 90 mile network which now covers many major destinations throughout the Dallas half…
It’s Sunday and I’m wondering exactly where my weekend has escaped too, something I do all too frequently. And then I remember that I fell into the rabbit hole of driving for UberX (including my live tweetalong last night which you can still read on Twitter via #virtualride) and keeping the content flowing here (something I do…
I have been known to do some crazy things just to satisfy my own curiosity about what something might be like. I also like to try new things and as a result, it has brought me some interesting adventures along the way. The latest of those ideas has been signing up to be an UberX…
Summer travel season is hitting its final furious weeks. Airplanes are crowded. Airports are crowded. Rental car shuttles are crowded. Even the local Starbucks where I blog each day is crowded. And everyone is clamoring for the same precious every shrinking space. It can make the average day downright frustrating. Today I got to Starbucks…
I love being on the water. And adjacent to that, I often love where a journey by water can take me. Before I fell in love with cruising, I was gaga for anywhere I could most easily access by ferry or fast boat. Here are five of my favorite travel finds that are most easily…
This weekend I took a peek behind the curtain of the world of manufactured spending – and what I discovered surprised me just a little bit! In the world of manufactured spending (MS for short), relative anonymity is critical. And as such, many veteran accumulators who practice MS do not welcome publicity to what some…
This gem has been popping up on my social media feeds this afternoon and is too funny not to share. It seems that a couple of Sydney-bound passengers decided to go the wearable carry-on route to avoid paying excess baggage fees. Read the rest here. What do you think? The craziest thing I’ve done domestically…