Monthly Archives: February 2010
Cool Tools: The Bathroom Diaries
The Bathroom Diaries (www.thebathroomdiaries.com) is really more amusing than useful, because I don’t know if it will really be reliable when nature calls and you don’t have a phone or computer with you in whatever part of the world to … Continue reading
Filed under Cool Tools
Now Boarding: Monday Hat News- American charges for blankets!
Happy Monday everyone! Here’s the latest in travel news. American Airlines is charging for BLANKETS and PILLOWS – at a whopping $8 a blanket/pillow set on domestic flights and flights to/from Mexico and Canada. Those questionably clean (even though sealed … Continue reading
Filed under Now Boarding
Cool Tools: SpottedByLocals.com
If you’re sitting in your office, grimacing that you’re in the office, even though you might have spent the past week grimacing at home because you were hunkered down there during the blizzards (or maybe you were just grimacing in … Continue reading
Filed under Cool Tools
Wanderings: Olympic fever!
No need to travel these two weeks… you can tour the world right on TV by watching the Olympics. I am personally glued to the speed of these downhill skiiers. I’m now very inspired to hit the slopes. So… stay … Continue reading
Filed under Wanderings
Wanderings: If I could have planned my snow week
If you’re a travelin’ fool like me bound by three weeks vacation, you’ll understand how much it bothered me to be handed an entire week off from work with nowhere to go. Once Wednesday came around with another foot of … Continue reading
Filed under Wanderings
Getting Lost In: Goa!
Now that I’ve been snowbound at home here in Baltimore for six days straight, the only activity outside the house I’ve had is shoveling snow, eating burgers and going to hot yoga. Though I love snow, I really do, and … Continue reading
Filed under Asia, Getting Lost In...
My Travel Hats is on Snow Day!
The federal government declared a snow day, and so will My Travel Hats as we attempt to dig out our car from the unplowed streets of Baltimore. Three feet of snow = flights cancelled, Amtrak cancelled, basically all travel of … Continue reading
Filed under Wanderings
Now Boarding: Bye-bye, Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines quietly integrated into one company on January 31. The news had poked around my radar, but I didn’t get confirmation of it until I went onto www.nwa.com to check my miles number only to have … Continue reading
Filed under Now Boarding
Now Boarding: Monday Hat News
Yes, someone’s got a severe case of the Mondays, after being couped up indoors through the weekend’s snowfall and freezing temperatures. Some news in the travel world: Machu Picchu landslide strands 2,000 tourists: Heavy rains caused landslides in the ancient … Continue reading
Filed under Now Boarding
