My former roommate went backpacking through Europe with her best friend a few years ago.  Backpacking and hopping from hostel to hostel is a great experience, but they ran into a common experience–while they slept, one of them was robbed by their co-hostel-mates. They never found out who it was, …

There’s so many stories of misbehaving celebrities in flight, entitlement, and, well, mixing things you shouldn’t mix in flight. But we rarely hear about the good stories of celebrities in flight.  Recently, I was on a flight with Emmitt Smith and he was such a nice guy, I didn’t realize …

I’ve mentioned before that my weight tends to flip-flop before trips and after trips.  I tend to let myself eat more when I travel, then get back in shape after the trip. In addition to using my Fitbit all the time, I have started doing something called a “DietBet” when …