Good reads: City of Thieves
Fetch a dozen eggs, enough to bake a wedding cake. Hardly seems like a particularly challenging task, right? Certainly not a task that would earn...
Trip Reports
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In flight: Another trip of successive downgrades
Apparently I have a habit of downgrading my travel experience almost as much as I upgrade it. Today’s flight to the Pacific Northwest was another...
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On the streets of Skopje
About an hour after arriving at Skopje’s Alexander the Great airport I had checked in to my hotel on the river and was out wandering...
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A new take on courtesy, dignity and respect from the TSA
My Monday morning was, all things considered, a pretty good one. Sure, I was in coach for the LAX-EWR redeye, but I made it into...
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In flight: Ljubljana to Skopje on Adria Airways
Day number four of my January Euro Hopping trip saw the end of my visit to Ljubljana, Slovenia and another flight, again on Adria Airways,...
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In flight: Munich to Ljubljana on Adria Airways
The route network of Adria Airways is a bit limited, as is their overall fleet (13 planes, 10 of which are CRJ-200/900s), but when Ljubljana...
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A ljubly day in Ljubljana
As part of my planning for a day in Ljubljana, Slovenia, I read many, many stories, guides and suggestions for what to see and what...
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Berlin in an hour. At night. In the winter.
I had a grand plan for transiting three different cities across Europe on consecutive days. Sure, I’d sleep a couple hours each night, but I...
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This is the sort of crazy flight I love
Take a random, tiny airline with a handful of prop planes flying the islands of Hawaii and give them a little bit of encouragement and...
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Checking in: Hotel Eurostars Berlin
Booking a hotel on the morning of arrival can limit the options available somewhat. That said, I’ve actually been pretty lucky in general with such...