I travel to Austin a few times a year for business, volunteer commitments, and leisure. One of my favorite properties there is the Hyatt Regency Austin. I enjoy the proximity to both SoCo (South Congress) as well as downtown and the University of Texas campus on trips where I have a car. It’s a fairly…
File under “easy miles”… drink some wine, test drive a Cadillac, earn 7,500 AAdvantage miles (but please, not in that exact order!) American Airlines AAdvantage program is running a limited time promotion with Cadillac. Test drive a Cadillac vehicle at any participating dealer, earn 7,500 AAdvantage miles. I called the Cadillac Concierge today at (844) 469-2234…
I’ve had several interesting off-blog conversations about hotel tipping recently. One came up in a side discussion about my issue last week with a Starwood hotel failing to deliver on a service request. (A friend asked whether I would have tipped if the requested item eventually showed up, even after the lengthy delay… my answer, YES.) Another was broached…
One of the things that frequent and/or far flung travel will give you is perspective. Perspective to reevaluate decisions you make in your own life, how you approach relationships with others, and general coping skills. There are people who travel would benefit if only they stepped back from their present reality. I am reminded of…
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…
Greetings from hazy Ensenada! I’m enjoying a leisurely day in port with my margarita & guacamole brunch (and free AT&T wifi hotspot) before we do a bit of lazy wandering. Every cruise I take, I’m repeatedly asked the question “which shore excursions are you taking?” – by friends before I leave as well as by…
Vegas is fine until you get tired of Vegas. Or when you need Vegas to not be Vegas at all, but just another city you are in for business. That’s why I’m a regular at The Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa (formerly The Westin Casuarina Las Vegas Hotel). Arrival I arrived in a…
I’m excited to be sailing on Golden Princess this afternoon out of Los Angeles. This will be a quick three-day cruise to Ensenada and back. While three days is definitely not enough time to take advantage of every feature the ship has, it will still be a fun journey. This will be the shortest cruise I’ve taken to…
I stayed last night at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. It was a comfortable place to be for a Thursday night stay. I was able to return my rental car (after picking up a bottle of wine at BevMo), get takeout from The Daily Grill downstairs, and was up in my room in time for…
I’ve been going back through my old blog looking to see if there is anything there I feel like salvaging for here – it feels weird that Jetsetter’s Homestead is a “clean slate” when I have five years of prior content (2005-2009) out there on a locked-down website. But then I read a paragraph like…
A recent traveler to Indonesia has brought home an unusual souvenir – a venomous tropical spider from Bali. But that’s not the scary part. The creepy end of the story is that he didn’t know it until he returned home! The Huffington Post video details some of the more graphic details of the story….
I hate early morning drives to the airport. Sometimes its much easier to stay overnight at an airport hotel and avoid the risk of missing my flight due to traffic. That was my aim when I booked a stay at the Sheraton Grand Hotel DFW Airport. Arrival I knew that hotel was wrapping up a…