Saint Patrick’s Day weekend featured another two-day travel show, this time right here in my neck of the woods. How could I be any luckier? The Travel & Adventure Show returned to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC for a fifteenth year. I’d heard of this one, but had never been before….
Category: General Travel Advice
Attending a Travel Show for the First Time
Every year in the nation’s largest city, delegations from around the world gather to dazzle us with dreamy offerings from every corner of the globe. Various tourist bureaus, travel industry businesses, journalist and speakers converge for one weekend dedicated to that favorite fancy. I’m talking about the New York Times Travel Show. This year is…
Points and Miles and a Weekend in Chicago (Not Chicago)
Less than a week after returning from a 5-day family visit to Kansas, I was heading back to the Central Time Zone for the third time within a 30-day period. My life had been accelerated since Austin and just a week after that I learned about another conference that would add to the life-changing dynamic…
Making Mistakes on the Road
Being afraid of all the ways something can go wrong is what prevents some people from traveling, or even taking a chance on other aspects of their lives. To be sure, things can and sometimes do go wrong, but that doesn’t have to break your trip experience. In fact, many of the unexpected things or…
