Confessions of a Would-be Gourmand and Jetsetter

It seems that lately, every time I’ve been inspired to write – last being four months ago, it’s to complain about travel arrangements. I suppose this makes me sound like an embittered traveler, but in reality most of the times I fly, drive, and sleep without a hitch. That being said, even when there are [...]

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I would say it was a time for one of my classic airline rants, and in a way, it is – but really my rant has little to do with the airline other than it’s choice to contract with a substandard vendor for ticketing and gate operations.
Yesterday I finally made an attempt to return from [...]

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I spend a lot of time in Chicago… Not the city, so much, but Chicago’s O’Hare airport. On top of that, I spend a lot of time in the American Airlines Admiral’s Club. Add to this that I am fascinated by the advances of public hygiene technology in the past half-decade, and you have today’s [...]

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Have I mentioned how much I loathe flying Northwest?
I’m glad that it was purchased by Delta, but even then I’m excessively concerned with the 30 year old, dilapidated DC-9s still bussing people around the airways. It’s even worse because every experience I’ve had with them in, oh four flights in the past five years (I’m [...]

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This week’s Travel Tuesday musing is actually a repost of something that I wrote nearly five years ago, but I still read back on occasionally. I hope you enjoy it.

Monday, November 8, 2004
This morning somewhere between the fading grey of pre-dawn and the
first impact of the morning’s sun upon my eyes, I had sat down [...]

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The competition for New York City airport travel is really heating up, and everyone that can score a direct hub-to-hub flight is benefiting. I certainly know I am, having scored a $200 round trip to NYC around labor day. Even the price cuts don’t seem to be enough, as the major carriers are doing something [...]

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I was working on another article about the glories of street meat in New York and Chicago, when upon my twitter, a tweet from Christi Day (better known to the world as @SouthwestAir) popped up announcing that Southwest was entering a bid for Frontier Airlines! Given that I’ve yet to read any tweets by street [...]

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I love to fly. It’s not really any question; when I’m working at a job that doesn’t keep me traveling, I do so on my own. This gives me a lot of options – I pick the destinations and the things I want to do while traveling. There is one troubling aspect about flying, though, [...]

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