Travel Tip: Ditch the Lint Next Time You Travel! (Video)
This travel tip is so simple and works so well that you’ll have more room in your luggage for the fun stuff. I can already see you trying this – whether with your own luggage tag or one you snag from someone else’s bag! Read More →
Sleeping Your Way to the Top
To us self-accomplished and confident women, these words have a very negative connotation that we need to offer ‘personal’ favors in order to reach our goals. But that is not what I’m talking about at all. I am talking about sleeping your way to the top during your hotel stay. Oh gosh, that sounds even worse! Ok, let’s try again: Ways to get an upgrade to a top-tier room during your next hotel... [Read more]
Keeping Mom’s Business Trip from Being Mom’s Guilt Trip
As a mom who travels for business, it may feel like you’re carrying around an extra bag every time you leave home — a bag of guilt! I know, because for many years I lugged this extra bag along with me on every business trip. Why the airlines couldn’t lose this piece of baggage, I will never understand! Inside my ‘extra baggage’ was guilt for leaving my kids at home while... [Read more]
Six Weeks to Summer Series: The Results Are In!
It is the final days of this 42-day series on Six Weeks to Summer: A Traveler’s Fitness Plan. I started this series in mid-April as I was embarking on the beginning of six weeks of almost non-stop travel. Results? I traveled to Hong Kong, China, Japan, Norway, Colorado, back to Norway and finished in Houston before heading home. 42 days elapsed. During this time, 36 days and nights where on the road... [Read more]
Travel Tips for Valet Parking
As I slide out of my car and offer the car keys to the valet, I wonder yet again: “Should I be tipping now or only upon retrieving my car?” After countless car rentals, hotel stays and parking experiences, you think I would have this tipping thing down pat. Alas, not yet. I keep looking for the hard and fast rulebook and it just doesn’t exist. When I ask various hoteliers, restaurant staff and... [Read more]
Reader Question: What Adaptor is Needed in the UK For My Kindle?
A reader asks: I am going to England in June and need to know what type of converter or adaptor I need for my Kindle. How exciting for you! Bring an adaptor for your Kindle that looks like this: The UK adaptor is large (compared to other countries) and has three, substantial, flat prongs. You can purchase either a UK-only adaptor or a multi-country adaptor. I tend to like the multi-country adaptors.... [Read more]
Six Weeks to Summer Series: Days 23-30 – Airport Workouts
It is Days 23-230 of this 42-day series on Six Weeks to Summer: A Traveler’s Fitness Plan. Airports are known for their long walkways to gates. Take advantage of this and get your walking in for the day! I did this recently at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport where I had a four-hour layover time. Several airports (both in the U.S. and internationally) have lockers in which you can store your... [Read more]
Shower Cap: One of Your Best Travel Companions
Whenever I stay at hotels that offer shower caps as an amenity, I grab them. They weigh virtually nothing and take up no room. There are many travel uses for shower caps but here are a few besides the obvious use of a cap when showering: Shoe covers. Cover your shoes with them to protect everything else in your bag. Electronics covers. Okay, this only works for smaller items but they work well. Makeup... [Read more]
ALWAYS Use the “Do Not Disturb” Sign!
I love arriving into a new hotel room, even after years and years of traveling. There’s just something about checking out what a room has to offer that still excites me. Until the other night… … when the first thing I saw at 11:30 pm after the lights went on was luggage. Open luggage on the floor, luggage that wasn’t mine. It didn’t take me long to realize the room was... [Read more]
Six Weeks to Summer Series: Days 23-24 – Winning the Fight Against Stress Eating
It is Days 23-24 of this 42-day series on Six Weeks to Summer: A Traveler’s Fitness Plan. Just passed the half-way point to my goal of a 12-pound donation back to the universe! Travel and Stress seem to naturally go together. Struggles to get through Security with your possessions and body intact, flight delays, sitting inside a tube next to someone you’d never want as a Facebook friend breathing... [Read more]
Six Weeks to Summer Series: Days 18-22 – Get Out and Move!
It is Days 18-22 of this 42-day series on Six Weeks to Summer: A Traveler’s Fitness Plan. Wearing a pedometer to track the number of steps I walk each day is helping to keep me moving. The days are getting nicer in Norway and the streets are calling! Rather than using my hotel’s fitness center, I hit the streets and walked to the fitness center in town. The hotels in town have an arrangement... [Read more]
Six Weeks to Summer Series: Days 15-17 – How a Hotel Can Impact Our Health and Fitness Goals
It is Days 15-17 of this 42-day series on Six Weeks to Summer: A Traveler’s Fitness Plan. I am combining a few days into one post since I have virtually done the same-same each of the past few days in my goal towards fitness. I am now in Kristiansand, Norway at Rica Hotel’s Hotel Norge (pronounced ‘Nor-ga’) and will be here much of the next two weeks. There are three health-friendly... [Read more]
More Than a Restaurant, Luihn’s is an Experience
Do you ever find a restaurant so special that you want to tell the world? Yet at the same time keep it a secret all to yourself? That’s what I have found at Luihn’s. Located in Kristiansand Norway, chef Roy Parker is someone I wish I could pack in my suitcase and take up residence in my kitchen forever. His wife, Lisbeth. is wine connoisseur extraordinaire. She also comes home in my suitcase,... [Read more]
