

The Scary Cost of Travel
If you’ve traveled recently, or considered it, you know inflation has hit the travel industry. Hard. Air travel leads the pack in high...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read


I'm Positive
It would be hypocritical of me to continue writing about COVID without acknowledging that I tested positive after getting home from our...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read


Flying Sucks And There's Nothing You Can Do About It
There isn’t much you can do when your flight gets cancelled or delayed, or when your bags don’t show up on the baggage claim carousel. I...
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Feb 14, 20235 min read


It Must Be True...I Read It On Facebook
I do very little on social media these days beyond posting pictures and videos of our travels, my kids and grandkids, and the critters in...
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Feb 14, 20235 min read


Don't Be a Chuck
The unfiltered behavior that has become the norm for some people in the virtual world of social media isn’t acceptable when you are a...
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Feb 14, 20236 min read


Holiday Travel Helps
Traveling in connection with a holiday, particularly flying, is a mix of joyful anticipation and anxiety-laden fear of disruptions. Janet...
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Feb 14, 20233 min read


Go Beyond the Truck Stops
Janet and I drove our son Rob’s SUV from San Diego to Maryland…we are storing it for him for while he and his family are stationed in...
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Feb 14, 20233 min read


Have I Got a Deal for You!
This past holiday weekend, my e-mail queue was chock-a-block full of messages from suppliers across the travel industry telling me they...
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Feb 14, 20233 min read


Come On Baby Light My Fire
When I have a bad day in the kitchen it’s usually really bad. Like a couple of years ago when a fire truck pulled up to the house with...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read


Stay-cation, Fake-cation…State-cation
Travel at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was challenging. I mean, really challenging. People embraced the concept of a...
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Feb 13, 20232 min read


The Q
No, not the Star Trek continuum character. The letter. One of the people I have come to respect the most in the travel industry is Royal...
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Feb 13, 20233 min read