A couple of weeks ago I had an odd experience which my friend summed up rather eloquently when he said it felt like we were “living in the future”. Never before had I more felt like I was indeed living in the future than when I attended a close friend’s wedding and saw a number...
My wife had an amazing pregnancy. In many ways it was a clean textbook pregnancy with hardly any complications. She carried beautifully, felt great for most of it, and enjoyed the nuances of being the cute little pregnant lady whenever we were out and about. She didn’t mind maternity clothes, she didn’t suffer from a...
A few weeks ago I wrote about our first travel experience with our son Eli by car. Just a few weeks later I’m able to positively report on our first travel experience with our son by air. This trip had been on the horizon since he was born, and we approached it with a little...
For now my fifth consecutive year, preceded by Las Vegas, Louisville, Chicago, and New Orleans, I was lucky enough to be in attendance at Collinson Media’s now very popular Connect Marketplace, held in Milwaukee, WI. What was incredibly special about this event, other than it being my fifth in a row, was that I had...
Most of the time I’m blogging about Washington, DC area hotels because of the ongoing arrangements I’ve made for them to house me at an amenable rate while I conduct business in that city. And I haven’t been including out of town hotels because it’s simply a matter of regular business when I visit other...
In the previous blog post, I discussed the newfound art of traveling with an infant but I made no mentioned of the hotel we laid our heads at for this first time experience. We were fortunate enough to be guests at the Dupont Circle Hotel, a Doyle Collection Hotel, formerly known as the Jury’s Hotel...
He weighs about thirteen pounds, not even as much as a standard issue bowling ball. And yet his possessions are enough to fill up the trunk and rear passenger seats of our Acura MDX sport utility vehicle, the largest vehicle Acura makes mind you. How did that happen? Even for a road trip down to...
Earlier this Summer, the General Services Administration (GSA) established a Government Travel Advisory Committee (GTAC) tasked with reviewing existing travel policies, processes, and procedures that are accountable and transparent to the tax paying public. Their topics will cover everything from the well documented per diem methodology to ideas for how to aid in meeting agency...
Can we agree that certain activities related to personal hygiene should be relegated to the privacy of one’s own quarters and not for public consumption at say, an airport. I have more than once been irritated by the unmistakable noise of a patron clipping his nails whether waiting at a gate, or on an airplane...
It’s not you, it’s me. I think that’s got to be my position about my last travel experience to Washington, DC. It was my first trip down to my beloved former home since April but for mighty good reason – having just had a baby I curtailed all travel to be at home with my...
