Jon and I are in the process of moving to Baltimore, which means that our current place in DC is a mess, our new place in Baltimore is a mess, and then there’s turkey to be had in Chicago. So, after several late-nights of painting, cleaning, packing and panicking, we sadly decided to skip the [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 19, 2009
My Travel Hats on brief hiatus!
Apologies Travel Hats fans! I have many valid excuses for my brief hiatus this week. Please stay tuned until next week to hear about some adventures in partial cross-country travel as Jon and I embark on a roadtrip to Chicago for Thanksgiving BY CAR! (This is a well-traveled route for me that I did several [...]
November 13, 2009
Cool Tools: Fly.com on Twitter
Okay, I’m not a Twitter fan. I don’t think that what I (or any other individual) does is so interesting that I need an updated broadcast throughout the day. Lots of CEOs try to ramp up interest in their companies by “Tweeting” about their going-ons. It’s only interesting if perhaps they tell you: “Just sold division of [...]
November 11, 2009
Getting Lost In: The Outer Banks, North Carolina!
Only until a year ago did I even hear of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And it’s still under debate whether it’s a series of islands or a peninsula and an island; nevertheless, it is basically a very skinny strip of land where, at some points, you can stand at the middle of a [...]
November 10, 2009
Wanderings: My Travel Hats returns from the OBX
OBX = Outer BankX or something like that. Anyway, we’re returned from a vunderbar weekend along rustic beachy coastal Carolina, with its enormo houses for five families, the ocean and sound within one block of each other, crabcakes, and 2:19:13 of running! Jon even went into the ocean for about 45 seconds. More later with [...]
November 3, 2009
In The Suitcase: Travel agents
To begin: I am my best travel agent. I have never had a good experience with any other kind of travel agent. Here’s where I will probably get stomped on by many an agent, whose job I would probably love to have, except then I’d have to deal with making people happy for a living, [...]
