As my flight cruises high above the California desert, passing near Coachella, I can’t stop thinking (and laughing) about the giant music-festival-turned-dumpster-fire known as the Fyre Festival. The #fyrefraud was targeted at high net worth Millenials. It was supposed to be a two-weekend “luxury music festival”. Event organizers claimed the location, a private island in…
The healthcare market is a trillion-dollar segment of the US economy – and growing. One often unnoticed – and untapped – healthcare market is for nonemergency medical transportation. Patients need transportation to physician appointments, routine treatments, diagnostic examinations, and other types of healthcare. Lyft and Uber have found a new niche – stepping up to meet…
Apple could effectively kill Uber by simply removing the Uber app from Apple’s App Store. This is exactly what Apple threatened to do after it learned the Uber app had been designed specifically to circumvent Apple’s privacy rules. Uber was able to track iPhone users even after they had deleted the app from the iPhone or iPad devices….
Another week down here at the homestead. Spring has kicked in (and so have our allergies). The weekly recap brings with it slightly cooler temperatures. Sadly, those won’t last long. Soon the Texas heat will be stifling so we will not complain! Summer brings with it all kinds of experiments… planting things in the garden,…
After anther round of viral videos highlight airline violence, we have to ask… does social media exposure lead to more passenger bad behavior?
Less than two weeks after the infamous United Airlines incident, another viral video is making the social media rounds. Tonight American Airlines is in the hot seat. A video has hit social media showing the moments after an American Airlines employee allegedly hits a passenger with a stroller on a flight. The incident took place on Friday afternoon…
Yesterday was April 20th. Otherwise known, informally anyways, as National Weed Day. And it coincides with World Cannabis Week, a festival and trade show in Denver. While it’s illegal to smoke pot in most states in the US, there are a few global destinations which are becoming known for their support of “weed tourism.” First, There are Some Things…
Having spent a great deal of time living and working in the Caribbean, where it’s always mosquito season, I’ve had more than my share of bites. While generally just a nuisance, mosquitoes are actually the most deadly creature on earth. Mosquito-borne diseases affect more than 700 million people annually. And chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, and malaria…
I’ve had an iPhone for a long time, since the very first iPhone 3G came out. That was 10 years ago. And during that time, I’ve owned exactly three iPhones (one of which is still in service, barely, in South America) and one Samsung Galaxy. All of them came with included earbuds which were acceptable, although…
The Eero Saarinen airline terminal that marked the TWA jet age at New York’s Idlewild Airport was a true work of beauty. The terminal housed TWA jet operations at what is now JFK International Airport until American Airlines acquired the bankrupt airline in 2001. By that time, the once-iconic TWA had largely been sold off in…
On this round of the weekly recap we cover Morrissey, mistakes, snakes and more. That is just where the fun begins. Hang on to your seats because we are going to drag you through this Monday review. We have been a featured blog on BoardingArea.com for the past few days. It has been fun to share our writing…
We aren’t too proud to admit that we make travel mistakes. Big ones, sometimes. Some of more “best of” posts have been the ones where we confess the lessons we have learned, sometimes the hard way. Here are a few of the “best of” posts from the Jetsetter’s Homestead archives: The Costly Hotel Mistake I…