Today has been one of those travel days with minor bumps all day. First TSA made me wait to send my suitcase through the x-ray machine for almost ten minutes. Then my flight wasn’t able to get into our gate at DFW because the plane using the gate before us had a medical emergency and…
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When do you go to the airport when your flight is delayed?
On Tuesday, I was supposed to fly to San Jose for a bunch of meetings. Typically, I was flying American, going through DFW. As I was getting ready to leave the house, my husband said, “Oh wow, there are tornado warnings in Dallas.” Sure enough, here is what happened in the Dallas area that day:…
Quick Packing Tip: Get it done the night before!!
My parents are in Northern California this week, enjoying a well deserved vacation in a place where it’s not 105 every day. They left last Monday, and packed the night before so they could leave for the airport on time. Because they had an early flight, at 810, they planned to leave for the airport…
My Insane Day of Flying
You know how there are sometimes those days that just don’t go well? Yesterday was that day for me. This weekend I was in New York for the Travel Bloggers Exchange (TBEX–if you follow me on Twitter you probably saw the gazillion tweets with that hashtag). It was a great experience–I learned a lot, met…
The Mountain Is Conquered!!
I got through it! I made it! The five weeks of brutal, every-business-day-plus-some-weekend-days travel is over! I now get to stay at home for at least three weeks, with just a couple of day trips thrown in. I got through it, but I’ll tell you, it was dicey there at the end. Friday night I…