TravelCommons

Back behind the mic after 3 week of travel in Croatia and Italy. The trip went amazingly well up to the last leg, when United's Newark team couldn't get our bags on our plane. But, I'd stuffed Apple AirTags into our luggage, so we were able to track their movements 'til they got home. That experience and a listener's tweet led to me re-visiting my travel tech stack. We then talk to Jeff Cioletti, author of the new book Imbibing for Introverts, about the art of drinking alone.

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Lots of different voices in this episode. Listeners growing our list of travel tips, and conversations with Dr. Sheldon Jacobson about why one of those tips — always catch the first flight out — isn’t always right, and Patricia Schultz about her new book, Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World.

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I've distilled my travel advice down to the top 13 travel tips to avoid the current chaos. Also, the scrapping of COVID travel test rules and why frequent flier award travel is a bargain again.

In-flight mask mandates; hotel housekeeping; moral hazard of frequent flier status; changes flying out of a non-hub airport; characteristics of a great taproom

Following the bouncing ball of on-flight mask mandates, my trip to Santa Fe, NM, reviewing flight tracking app Flighty, and Daytona Beach International Airport.

The American philosopher Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast” In this episode, we talk about rapid changes in hotel service and in-flight mask mandates. Then a trip report and recommendations from our trip to Louisville.

Analyzing travel inflation and ratcheting add-on fees; changing COVID test rules; renewing US passports; Louisville Cuban restaurant; COVID catches up to me

Travel planning trends; COVID test anxiety and how travel insurance helps; blogger’s brutal review of a restaurant gets me thinking about food as adventure

Traveling to the UK; dodging Omicron travel restrictions; tracking COVID rule changes; renewing Global Entry; interviewing author of The Adventurer’s Glossary

UK travel planning; Is Uber dying or resurrecting; Nashville airport vendors clawing back from the lockdown; stripping my English down to its basics; 2021 traveler's gift guide highlights