Making Adventure Travel Healthy and Safe
Forbes Magazine recently published an article titled “How To Make Adventure Travel Healthy & Safe” which highlights The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and their new COVID-19 Health & Safety Guidelines for three of the most popular activities:
Air Travel During COVID – Tips for Your Domestic Flight (Part One)
After nearly two months under the “stay at home” COVID quarantine, I recently had to travel via plane from Atlanta to Washington DC to help out with some family child care issues for a while. My last flight prior…
Changes At Airports Signal How Flying Will Be Different This Summer
The New York Times recently ran an article on how traveling this summer will change due to COVID-19: “Getting on a Plane? Please Take the Food Out of Your Bag. New security and health policies at airports and on planes will make traveling this summer a bit stranger and, officials hope, safer.”
Pack Rat In The Kitchen
I’ve been reading articles recently about how, with travel restricted due to COVID-19, people are looking to souvenirs to remind them of their past sojourns: a piece of beautifully designed Venetian glass, a framed pair of tickets to a coveted and sold-out concert at Wembley stadium, handmade woven baskets from the Caribbean, etc.
Archive: February 2014 - The Founding Farmers
This blog originally appeared in a 2014 post:
If you’ve visited Washington, D.C. and haven’t stopped at a restaurant called “The Founding Farmers” then you must return. This is one of my favorite restaurants and there are not many like it. It is a farm to table restaurant however…
New York, New York
I’ve been thinking a lot about travel these days, not in the least because just before New York City closed down non-essential businesses in March, my husband and I traveled there to celebrate his birthday. We stayed at a hotel we love, dined at restaurants that are old favorites, and enjoyed a great evening of jazz in the city. It was a wonderful trip, albeit one that when we look back on it we now see clearly was a different world in a different time.
Couple Stranded In The Maldives Due To No Available Flights
“Olivia and Raul De Freitas are currently on their honeymoon, at a five-star resort, in the Maldives, a nation composed of more than a thousand tiny, idyllic islands in the Indian Ocean… and their travel agent assured them that, whatever policy was forthcoming, all South African citizens would be allowed back home. Go ahead and have a great time, they were told…”
Archive: February 2014 - What Hotels Could Do Better
This blog originally appeared in a 2014 post:
Having just come home from a round of rather grueling travel, in a series of hotels, a few thoughts on what small things hotels could do to better the experience for their guests:
Change of Plans – Mobile, Alabama
Weather can get in the way of any trip planning, but one of my most vivid experiences with that came a few years ago in October 2017 when we were on the way to Mobile, Alabama, with one of the teenagers heading to a soccer tournament. The drive wasn’t an easy one, but the weather was clear despite the threat of bad weather and hurricane warnings nearer to Pensacola. But along the way, the coach made the call to withdraw from the tournament due to weather threats, and so we proceeded on to Mobile without any plans but a couple nights of non-refundable hotel rooms booked in our names.
Movie Tours
I’ll start by saying that I’m not a big fan of group tours on vacation, certainly not on large buses or in masses of people where I need to follow a group leader waiving a flag. Overall, I’m not a person who likes crowds – I’ll forgo seeing the Tower of London if there is a line, and the thought of Times Square on New Year’s Eve makes me shiver.