Le Chic Geek

While View from the Wing is giving away luggage from the future, I’m offering up travel advice from the past. My favorite new find is a blog called Ask the Past.   Want to know how to kill bed bugs?  Ask 1777.  How to stop bleeding?  Ask 1644. I figured I’d …

How do you let people know you are important and mean business? Bring your giraffe. SpikeTV is kind of a big deal.  In their words, “So big we brought a giraffe.” (He wore a bowtie, bowties are cool.) Word on the street is SpikeTV also demanded a helipad and a …

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The day I’ve been waiting for has come.  I was making a tight connection in Philly, but spotted something unusual out of the corner of my eye. Well, also out of the rest of my eye. And the other one too.  I wasn’t sure I was in terminal F. Terminal …

Some items from the blogs I read: Aadvantage Geek finds a promo where you can win 1,000,000 American Airlines Miles.  Whew. The Wandering Aramean is crazy.  (15,000 flown miles in 60 hours) Will Run for Miles has convinced me to steer clear of the rats in the NYC airport lounges.  …

Ballpark food delivered right to your seat?  The future is here. While some hotel chains are moving away from full service, some baseball parks are embracing it.  While watching a National’s game yesterday, I noticed a sign on my seat advertising mobile ordering with Dasdak. I just had to try …

Some great posts from the blogs I follow: Forget the most direct route or the cheapest route, HackMyTrip explores looking at the happiest route, and whether its worth it. Aadvantage Geek and I guessed that American (and US Airways) were going to change their boarding process.  I wondered where I’d …

I was just perusing Jeffsetter’s blog and came across a new interactive map of his destinations.  I thought this was pretty awesome for multiple reasons.  You can mouse over a destination you are interested in and see how many posts are there.  You can also drill down by region.  If …

I was searching through Macy’s for a new pair of heels and accidentally came across these great travel shoes. These Style & Co shoes were a steal at $35.  They are incredibly light-weight, and are a semi-wedge.  The real seller to me was how comfortable the soles of these shoes …

A pilot and his passenger survived after their Cessna 177B ran out of fuel and crash landed in an apartment’s living room.  The kicker?  According to Delia Gonçalves and Simon Landau of WUSA9, the residents “didn’t see any damage to the house until they opened their bedroom doors and saw …