Nancy Grace isn’t the only one who worries about women who go missing. I’ve hit the point in my years of travel (often solo travel) where thoughts of safety become a nagging voice in the back of my head. “If I went missing on the road, would anyone know where to start looking?” Reading stories…
Heads up for fans of bohemian style accents. Gilt.com just opened a sale one-of-a-kind throws and pillows from vintage kantha pieces. Kantha is a type of embroidered fabric made from saris stitched together by hand and found in parts of SE Asia. These pieces are from Taj Hotel Design Concepts. The hand stitched 50″x60″ throws…
Another day, another airport hotel. Sometimes it feels like Groundhogs Day around here. But then something happens that snaps me out of my airport hotel funk… that thing most recently was the Westin Atlanta Airport. Arrival After a shuttle wait at the airport’s ground transportation stop that was anything but chivalrous, I boarded the…
Navigating an airport for the first time can be a nerve wracking experience for any first-time flyer. But mix airports and autism together and you can have a highly stressful situation for that traveling family. Sensory overstimulation is often a fear for parents of autistic children. How their child might deal with situations outside their…
I subscribe to a monthly shipment from Stitch Fix, an online personal shopping service. Women who try the service create their own custom profile so that they can try new wardrobe additions to fit their lifestyle, figure, and needs. September was box #5 for me. Through my first four boxes, I kept a total of…
If you want to revisit the golden age of the jet set, a time when travel was a stylish affair highlighted by space age innovation, you can. And you don’t need a TARDIS to get you there either. For one day this month, the architecturally-iconic former TWA terminal at JFK (nee Idlewild) will open to the public….
I love the feeling of checking into familiar chain hotels. I do not often get to check into luxury properties, so I have accepted what “my normal” looks like. And nothing screams “normal” to me like consistency. Consistency was exactly what I was looking for when I checked into the Hyatt Place Reno-Tahoe International Airport….
Bonus miles/points can trigger a Pavlovian response for me – dangle the possibility of earning more miles/points and I start salivating before I have even read the fine print. My heart races even when its not a program I normally care about. Take this email: I’ve been selected! (I feel special.) DOUBLE POINTS! (That’s twice…
Living in Texas, you’d think I’d be used to bad parking jobs. My daily grind typically involves an obnoxious parker just about everywhere I go: my morning Starbucks run where at least two of the regulars have a fetish for using the handicapped spaces when they are in a hurry even though they lack a…
No matter how bad your last flight was, chances are your last seatmate was not THIS horrible. A Modern Family editor, Ryan Case, live-Tweeted an account of one passenger’s in-flight antics late on Sunday. The 64 separate and progressively funnier (in a life-is-stranger-than-fiction kind of way) Tweets paint a vivid picture of the scene unfolding…
Interesting fact #1: The last two hotels I have stayed in have had earplugs strategically placed on the nightstand when I checked in. Interesting fact #2: I have ended up with disruptive noise from the room next door to me on my last two hotel stays. Coincidence? Or correlation? In the case of the first…
For me, some hotels will always be places where I primarily sleep, no matter the purpose of my trip. Doing hotel reviews for properties like this becomes a bit skewed when no matter what the purpose of my trip, I see the same things on the property each time. The Sheraton Sonoma County Petaluma, in…