Tag: Air travel
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The Basics on Planning an African Safari, aka: Should You Use a Travel Agent?
Let me start by saying: there’s nothing basic about planning a safari trip to Africa. I mean, come on! It’s beyond exciting! It’s the trip of a lifetime! We’re talking bucket list stuff! You gallop headlong into it with visions of the “Lion King” and “Out of Africa” dancing off in the distance. You start…
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Flying Fancy: Review of Emirates First Class
And we’re back! Actually, we’ve been back from Africa over a week, but I’ve been in post-vacation mourning. That coupled with the fact that as a self-employed person, I made $0.00 during my little three-week break, and yet, my bills still came in during that very same three-week period and—quite rudely—those not-so-nice credit corporations and…
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Flying Fancy: Review of Singapore Airlines Suites
I think I’m generally pretty spoiled. And I’ve had some pretty spectacular flying experiences. But our trip in the Singapore Airlines Suites was so over-the-top, it almost made this girl (formerly from the trailer parks of West Texas) downright uncomfortable. First of all…let me just stop you right there. I’m sure you know, or suspect,…
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Cambodia Better Bring It
Ugh. I’ve been slacking on the blogging. I know. The thing is, I had to run all over town to find shorts. In February. In D.C. where the high temps this month have regularly hovered around “freezing your leg hairs off.” (Also, I’ve had a lot of big deadlines to hit in the past couple…
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Friday Links: Sea Turtles and Legos Edition
Businessweek Bloomberg had a story a few weeks back about the completely uncool devaluation of airline miles (We’re miles people. Well, XFE is a total airline miles machine, and flew roundtrip to Alaska two days this week just to rack up miles on a cheap ticket. I’m more of a “maybe I’ll use the Miles…
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Fantasy v. Reality: Work Trips
My enamorado XFE has deserted me once again. OK, fine, that’s a bit dramatic, I suppose. He’s travelling for work this week. It’s actually been several months since XFE has been a work-road-warrior. I’d gotten pretty comfortable with him around all the time. Which is why it feels like total desertion. Of course, it doesn’t…
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Friday Links: Fall Blows Edition
I’m on a bit of a self-imposed shopping hiatus right now, but if I weren’t, I’d be plunking down some cash for the burgundy version of these wedge booties featured on Cardigans and Couture this week. This post from last year continues to perform really well on thePoeLog. I believe that it’s because it contains…
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Friday Links: Panda Poop Edition
It’s been quite a week. The days are getting so much shorter, which has made getting up to go to the gym at 5:30 am so much harder. The weather’s been weird, or, actually, typical for September — brisk one day, hot and humid the next. On Wednesday night, my metro train got stuck in…
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Friday Links: Freaks in Oceans and Metros Edition
I’ve got back-to-back trips over the next two weeks and will blog when I can. In the meantime, I suppose I should brush up on my R. Kelly lyrics in case I get stuck on a tarmac, and be glad I don’t have to take public transportation in San Francisco. See you soon! These folks…
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Friday Links: Lazy Sunday Edition
Since I let XFE take over the blog on Friday, I’m a bit late on links. But there were a few illuminating things on the Interwebs this week, including fancy planes and flight attendants, an apparatus for lazy eating, and a fear-mongering infographic. (XFE fans – don’t worry: he’ll be back with another post on…