Category Archives: Beer

Podcast #143 — How Bad is Business Travel For Your Health; Make Layovers Fun

Posted by mark on August 9, 2018 1 comment

No long-distance travel this month. Instead, I”m getting back into regional jets, and waiting out a long delay in Cincinnati has me wondering about American Eagle’s flight scheduling algorithm. My flights into CVG cause me to think about the impact of losing hub status. CVG looks overbuilt, but MEM is spending money to shrink itself. […]

Video – Chicago MDW Layover Taproom Tour

Posted by mark on July 15, 2018 3 comments

With a bit of forethought, a 4-5 hour layover allows you to do a quick flyby of a new city’s highlights, or get deep into some part of a city. In this video, we’re laying over at Midway, Chicago’s older, less-known airport and one of Southwest’s busiest stations, skipping the usual tourist spots and instead […]

Podcast #135 — Airport Bingo; My New Old Travel PC

Posted by mark on November 20, 2017 1 comment

Here’s something to listen to while in the Thanksgiving airport lines and traffic jams. We list out some of the squares we’d like to see in an airport bingo card, and I end up going back to the future with my new travel PC. We also talk about my growing stack of subway “tap” cards […]

Podcast #131 — Twitter Concierge Customer Service; London Tube Story

Posted by mark on July 30, 2017 1 comment

This past week in Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, when I traveled across four terminals to find a restaurant serving a nice selection of local Atlanta beers, I finally had to admit that I have a craft beer problem. In addition to this confession, I talk about about taking the London Underground back from the big Adele […]

Podcast #128 — Hunt for Experiences; Pop-Up Entertainment

Posted by mark on March 31, 2017 Comments Off on Podcast #128 — Hunt for Experiences; Pop-Up Entertainment

It’s a very Paris-centric episode; I’m still trying to drop the weight I picked up on our 10-day stay. I talk about hunts for beer and pastry took us out of the usual Notre Dame-to-Eiffel Tower-to-Louvre tourist triangle, some of the interesting buskers we saw along the way, and my surprise at Munich Airport receiving […]

Podcast #124 — Craft Beer Hunting; I Hate Rick Steves

Posted by mark on September 28, 2016 2 comments

My son joins the podcast to talk about hunting down craft beers. I then talk about a few “a-ha” moments from my recent trip to Scotland, my on-going struggles with bitch tweeting, a VPN hardware product that could come in handy, and why I’ve come to hate the Rick Steves travel juggernaut. All this and […]

Podcast #111 — Seatback Recline Wars; Craft Beer Tourism

Posted by mark on October 12, 2014 Comments Off on Podcast #111 — Seatback Recline Wars; Craft Beer Tourism

I tried to hold back, but I just couldn’t. I have to finally weigh in on the seatback recline wars. I’m stunned at the number of people who convert a couple of inches of seat movement into some sort of Manichean morality play. From that you can probably guess where I come out on this. On […]

Podcast #101 — Future of Mileage Tracking Tools; Searching for Local Food and Craft Beer

Posted by mark on October 25, 2012 2 comments

Back in the TravelCommons studios after a couple months of summer break. We open up with thoughts about skipping rental cars, sharing listener comments on the Chicago Layover Excursion video, and the current state of American Airlines — great new airplanes, deteriorating on-time stats. Michael Komarnitsky, the founder and CEO of GoMiles, talks about why […]