Escaped Chicago winter for a week of hiking and eating in Tucson; CEO of Koala talks about renting timeshares; travel planning gets hot and then cools back down
Tag Archives: Covid-19
Podcast #171 — Data Privacy and Rental Cars; 2021 Travel Planning Tips
Posted by mark on January 14, 2021
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Was all set to head to San Diego for a week’s break from Chicago’s grey January and then looked at the COVID restrictions… and then pivoted to Arizona. With people starting to think about 2021 travel, I pulled together my top 5 travel planning tips. Slow vaccine roll-out will probably keep us restricted for longer […]
Podcast #170 — Show Me the Proof; Hereditary Road Warriors
Posted by mark on December 16, 2020
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No Thanksgiving travel, but looking at the travel volume for this, the busiest travel week of the year, shows just how far things have fallen. The Qantas CEO said “No vax, no fly”, so we dig into the emerging world of digital vaccine passports. And then I trace my travel genealogy, wondering if road warrior-ism […]
Podcast #169 — Pandemic Holiday Gift Guide; Year-End Status Offers
Posted by mark on November 12, 2020
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No travel since the last episode, so I had some time to think back through my post-lockdown travel and come up with my top 10 gift ideas for your pandemic travelers. We look at the start of the year-end efforts by airlines, hotels, and credit card companies to keep their grounded travelers, unpack the work-from-hotel […]
Podcast #168 — Surviving Quarantine Theater; Traveling for Food
Posted by mark on October 16, 2020
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Trying to recover from a long weekend of eating and drinking through the neighborhoods of South Philly. Our movable feast reminded me that food may be the one experience of a place left that can’t be easily exported and bought on-line. We talk about the FBI’s cybersecurity warning to work-from-home types using hotels for getaway […]
Podcast #165 — First Post Lockdown Flight; When Do We Travel For Business Again?
Posted by mark on July 17, 2020
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The hop taste isn’t coming through My first post-lockdown flight was a 90-minute Southwest non-stop from Chicago to Nashville. It wasn’t bad, but not as casually easy as my last pre-coronavirus flight in February. We talk about that experience as well as Hertz’s new cleaning program, my latest pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, and then […]