For many of us, Monday mornings start very early as we fly to work or get behind the wheel to begin a long drive to another city. Flights at 5:30 or 6:00 a.m. get you up and out the front door before some people have even gone to bed! I’ve been such a Monday-morning traveler…
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Quick Travel Tips for Your Holiday Weekend
If you’re traveling this weekend, here are a few last minute tips to help you and your family travel smart and safe so you can focus on the holiday. Is your child flying alone? Then read this for lots of tips you’ll want to know. If you are checking your bag and traveling with someone else,…
Weekly Link Roundup
Short and sweet, here is a roundup of this week’s links to news and resources to help enhance your travels: Productivity Many of us live on Google and use the search methods that we’ve become familiar with. There are so many ways to search within Google to have the results zoom in on exactly what…
Success Magazine’s Money-Saving Tips for Business Travelers
I have been a reader of Success Magazine for years so when one of their writers asked me to contribute to an article on money-saving travel tips, of course I sent her several ideas. Jill Becker’s “Cheap Trips” article in the October edition of Success contains 34 ways of reducing the cost of business travel,…
Baggage Belt Fire at MCO
Excitement, airport delays and maybe some burnt undies after yesterday’s baggage belt fire in Terminal 2 of Orlando’s International Airport (MCO). This just hours after I departed out of this terminal and checked a bag for the first time in months. The fire started at United Airline’s curbside check in area, according to this article.…
A Different Way to do Laundry in a Hotel Room Sink
When traveling for multiple weeks, I hand-wash items in my hotel sink. Lingerie, socks, workout clothes, under-jacket camisoles …. Just about anything that’s washable might get washed so I can wear it again. This keeps my packing down to a minimum and I don’t get an enormous dry cleaning bill at the end of my stay.…
New City Anxiety? Get Over it With These 3 Tips!
You may think that with all the travel I do, which is just about every week of the year, that I am a fearless traveler who treks dauntlessly throughout the world. That’s not always the case. Not at all. Sometimes I just want to hibernate in my hotel room because there’s discomfort on the other…
Postcard Journal Tip
Like to journal your travels but don’t want the weight of the journal? I like to write in a travel journal to keep track of where I’ve been, who I met, where I stayed and ate and anything else of interest. But I often do not want to carry the travel journal with me due…
Top Tips for Shopping Worldwide
One of the greatest pleasures for many travelers is shopping. It’s fun to see the different products that are available in each destination and to compare prices on items that we can also get at home. I also like looking at the names of products. In a store window was “Man’s No Fall More” hair…
Pearls of Wisdom from a Frequent Business Traveler
Research shows that 40-50% of business travelers are women. Many times each year, women dash out their front doors, luggage wheels spinning behind them, waving goodbye to their loved ones as they head out on another business trip. I am part of this statistic. Last year I traveled 48 weeks of the year. During these…
