Le Chic Geek

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 …

Chris Elliott just posted about ghost fares–which are a real thing. Ghost fares are when flight inventory was purchased, but the cache of the website doesn’t reflect that yet.  Because of that, websites might display prices that are below the cost of what they are able to actually sell you. …

A few years ago, my ex-boyfriend was on a flight where the landing gear wouldn’t go down on.  He was flying with a girl he had just had a fight with and they had broken up. The whole experience was on TV.  And let’s just say, they’re married now. I …

I wrote about the Golden Girls restaurant that is opening up in September in NYC. Today I found out there is a little-known season of the Golden Girls that aired after the “final season” when Bea Arthur left the show. It contains the same theme song, and features Sophia, Rose, and …

This just happened to my friend, but don’t let it happen to you. You leave your hotel room.  You hear the door *click* closed.  You’re fine, right? My friend thought so.  He let his hotel door close all the way and figured he was fine.  What he didn’t know was …

With so many products on Amazon, it’s hard for one to stand out among the crowd.  And Amazon likes it that way with outside products.  (They utilize the long-tail method, hoping people come to their website to buy anything). So a new industry emerged–helping products get Amazon reviews so they end …

Earlier this month, I wrote about a photo circulating of kids “playing on their phones instead of looking at paintings in a famous museum”. Except they weren’t playing.  I wrote about how they were using the museum app to learn more about the painting they were just examining, and whoever …

The wine in coach isn’t always that great.  While some airlines offer higher-end half bottle options, the wine sometimes needs time to breathe–more time than you have on the flight. Apparently, you can improve the taste of the wine by hyper-decanting it.  So what fancy tools are needed to hyper-decant? …