The travel bug had to start somewhere–right? When I was growing up, I got into competitive figure skating and was traveling across the country for different competitions–with my parents. One year, my parents could not make it to the entire competition.  They could come to the competitive part, but not …

I was on one of Bill’s business trips with him.  We were in Tuscon, AZ (a delightful area), and he had a bunch of meetings. After one of the meetings, we were going to go out for drinks, so I offered to hang around where his meeting would be instead …

A few years ago, I was having a really bad day so my friend decided we were taking a trip that second.  That exact moment–no prep. So we got in the car and went. It ended up being a really fun trip.  We went out past Manassas to the battle …

I used to travel for work quite a lot. Now it’s intermittent. When it was all the time I had a method and a set of rotating suitcases. Certain things–shoes and toiletries–stayed in the suitcases while I swapped out clothing. Now I’m not traveling quite as much and I just …

I had to take anti-histamines after I had been drinking once.  Whoa was that a trip.  And I apparently tweeted while doing that. So much so, whenever I tweet weird things, people start wondering if I mixed the two together and tweeted again. Nah.  I’m really just that weird. In …

Weather has been my enemy when traveling.  Like when I traveled to Chicago during a snow storm. But sometimes I use travel to alleviate the pain of weather. I jumped to Florida when we were getting a snow storm at the end of March.  So worth it. But sometimes, those plans …

If you fly frequently, you’ve had to deal with crying babies, people who take too long to go into their seats and block the aisle from everyone else, and delays.  And you’ve dealt with grumpiness.  Other passengers, the airline crews, and sometimes your own. Art Carden wrote a post a …

Uber is at it again with Uber Ice Cream. Last year, Keri and I attacked hailed an Uber Ice Cream car and brought treats up to our office. Oh, and for ourselves. This time, Uber is teaming up with Capital One, and you can get your Uber Ice Cream for …

This video is from about ten years ago, but it’s been going around again and some friends have linked me to it again. In an undercover investigation, the group set up undercover cameras to see what happened when the dirty dishes were left out. Apparently not much–in a bad way. …

I studied abroad in Moscow.  And while I loved the experience, sometimes it got a little lonely. I took a short trip to St. Petersburg which was amazing.  But I was still feeling kind of lonely. Then I came across a beautiful thing. I turned a corner and there was …