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Monthly Archives for March 2010.

Green Travel Tip: Bring a Water Bottle

a white bottle with black lid and green label

One of my passions is the environment, but business travel, or travel in general, isn’t very conducive to being environmentally friendly. To help my fellow travelers out, I am introducing a new regular topic: Green Travel Tips. The first tip: bring a water bottle with you and fill it up as you need it. 60…

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Quick Packing Tip: Boots and Shoes Up North

a grey boot with a knitted sock

One thing I learned from my recent trips to the snowy northeast is that you can’t wear ballet flats in snow. All of my shoes are flats. I fell several years ago and sprained my ankle and my knee, plus I’m on my feet all day doing presentations. I live in Texas, where we don’t…

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What to Wear to the Airport? Spring Edition

a long sleeved sweater with multicolored stripes

The seasons are finally changing,  moving from cold, rainy, icky winter (which has been very strange since I live in Texas and normally winter is at least half beautiful) to beautiful, breezy, sunny spring. Whenever spring arrives I immediately want to go work in my garden, and go shopping.  Transitioning to pretty colors, lightweight fabrics,…

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Spoon (the band) Was on my Flight Home Tonight

I love the band Spoon. Like, love them love them. They are my favorite band after The Beatles and Jack White (yes I know Jack White is a person not a band, but he is great regardless of whether he is playing in one of his three bands or by himself). I have most of…

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A Website All About Travel Beauty!!

I have found a new website that is solely focused on travel sized, TSA approved, high end beauty products. 3floz has all of the great shampoos, conditioners, skincare, and other stuff I love, including an organic section!!  If you are in Manhattan you can even get same day delivery. I wish they had a store…

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My Thoughts on Pittsburgh

a sandwich with meat and cheese

My experience in Pittsburgh was heavily dominated by Snowmaggedon 2010. I managed to get on the last flight from Boston to Pittsburgh before everything was cancelled, which was good, but I had to cancel my car and rely on the Marriott shuttles to get me places. I was a little apprehensive about this, but the…

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Another Lesson Learned–About Pants This Time

As you all know, I have been in the middle of back to back business trips,with just weekends (if that) in between. This past weekend was my chance to catch up on about three weeks’ worth of laundry, including all of my travel clothes and clothes from my sister’s wedding. I had at least three…

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The Tour of NPR Fundraisers

a logo with text and numbers

This week I am in the New York City area. I have meetings on Long Island two days and in the White Plains area two days. However, because of my general ignorance of the Greater NYC area, I chose to stay in one hotel, in the White Plains area. I didn’t realize that Long Island…

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