Le Chic Geek

One thing I’m familiar with is getting ripped off by taxis in Paris. Some drivers automatically assume Americans don’t know where they are going and do crazy routes (and add unnecessary surcharges) to rip you off. Pizza in Motion had good advice.  If you know you are getting ripped off …

Earlier today, I mentioned I can get pretty lonely when I travel. Forch, I AM the guy who will strike up a convo with you oh this 6 hour flight.   You like trout fishing? ME TOO! Enjoy being quiet in flight?  ME TOO. What’s the deal with airplane food? …

I love traveling by myself AND with other people. But sometimes traveling solo can get lonely at the most random times. I was traveling alone, and the Hyatt brought up an amenity for me.   I don’t know why, but having TWO wine glasses for just me made me tear …

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 …