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I’m Not Sure My Insurance Covers Stripper Collisions
I’m in New York this weekend for this girl’s bachelorette party. Only, you can’t really call it a bachelorette party since she’s been shacking up with the groom for a couple of years now. But really you can’t call it a bachelorette party because she (a) refuses to wear a tiara (excuse me, I wear…
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You Fancy, Huh? Review of Thai Airlines First Class Service
Just in case you were wondering: first class on Thai Airways does not suck. No, actually, I’m even willing to go a step further and say it’s quite nice. Alright, alright, the truth is it was fantastic. Un-freaking-believable. Oh, and for the record, in general, (and I say this with some expertise now) the first…
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Hotel Crashing: St. Regis Bangkok
I’m having caviar withdrawals. And my butler hasn’t brought me my morning cappuccino or left marzipan by my bed during turndown service in over a week. And I love my marzipan. This is wholly unacceptable. Such is life after a first-class vacation. Yes, we used airline miles and flew first class the entire way to…
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One Night In Bangkok Probably is Actually Sufficient
Oh Bangkok. I wanted to love you. I adore Thai food. You have such pretty architecture. And, one of my absolute favorite songs of the 1980’s extols your, erm, seedier aspects, shall we say? A song, which Wikipedia tells me, has been covered by a Norwegian singer, a Swedish pop group, a Swiss DJ and…
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Getting It (Sorta) Done, Qantas Style
If you want something difficult to get done, let’s say, getting your child into a certain daycare facility or, maybe, getting to the bottom of an insurance bill, let me just offer up a suggestion — get someone at Qantas on it. No, seriously. These guys take care of difficult stuff, quickly and efficiently and…
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Doing It Like a Dude Down Under
Hello kitty cats! I am back from my travels. But don’t worry, I have a backlog of posts to write about the trip, including some hotel crashing posts ranging from the uber-luxurious (St. Regis Bangkok) to the way-back-in-time machine that is the Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas. But first, did I ever tell you about the time…
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More Animals that Will Kill You in Australia
Having survived, and even, begrudgingly liked, scuba diving, we decided to further take out lives into our hands and rent a four-wheel drive to take up into the Daintree Rainforest. Finally, a vehicle that does not make our bags seem too large. We picked up our car in Cairns right after getting off the scuba…
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Time to Grow a Pair of Pills
Scuba and me haven’t been friends. In fact, we’ve been kinda cool with each other. Scuba, for me, has been like that annoying co-worker who you’ve had to work on a long-term project with. They annoy you, and you want nothing to do with them, but you have to just suck it up, hold your…
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And Then it was Time to Scuba
Despite my best efforts, we boarded a ship in Cairns and sped out to the Great Barrier Reef, to fling ourselves down into shark-infested waters and look at fishes. And guess what? It was awesome, amazing, breath-taking (literally), awe-inspiring and exciting. We boarded the SeaQuest on Wednesday morning. It’s a big catamaran type ship that…