Tag: Nashville
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Things I’m Recommending Right Now (Summer 2024)
Here are the travel and food recommendations I’ve been giving for quick trips to Nashville, Louisville, and Memphis… and a longer one to Oaxaca. Continue Reading →
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Podcast #200 — Wrapping Up the TravelCommons Journey
Finishing 19 years of podcasting where I’ve been thinking way too much about travel, I indulge in some nostalgia and talk about my personal travel philosophy Continue Reading →
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Podcast #193 — Making the Most of Miles; Nashville vs Nash-Vegas
Weather delay bar tab got me rethinking the economics of airport lounge memberships. Continuing to plan travel but focusing on making the most of the miles we accumulated on credit cards during the pandemic. And comparing Nashville’s music scene: Nash-Vegas honky tonks vs the smaller, eclectic off-Broadway scene. Continue Reading →
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Podcast #187 — Moving to a Non-Hub Airport; What Makes A Great Taproom?
The last episode recording in Chicago before we relocate the TravelCommons studios, and our lives, down to Nashville. We close out our threads on in-flight mask mandates and hotel housekeeping, and critique an academic paper about the moral hazard of frequent flier elite status. I talk through the changes I’ll have to make when flying Continue Reading →
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My Best Restaurants, Bars and Taprooms of 2021
It’ll take travel guide books a while to catch up with all the restaurants and bars closures caused by the COVID lockdowns. To help fill that gap, here are the best places I’ve ate and drank at during my 2021 travels. I’ll update this after each trip, so keep it bookmarked. Chicago NoodleBird at Fat Continue Reading →
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Podcast #181 — Travel Potpourri; 2021 Traveler’s Gift Guide
No travel since the last episode, so just talking through a random potpourri of travel stuff. There’s more travel planning; this time for a couple of weeks split between London and Wales which means sorting through a new set of COVID travel requirements. We look at some stats — Uber’s latest financials and how deeply Continue Reading →
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Podcast #165 — First Post Lockdown Flight; When Do We Travel For Business Again?
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 Continue Reading →
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Podcast #152 — Overwhelming Travel; New & Old Restaurant Trends
Latest in Sustainable Food Delivery Moving the TravelCommons studios kept me mostly off the road this month except for a quick trip to Nashville, but staying out of restaurants has helped me finally drop the last bit of Christmas weight. We talk about the “earn and burn” strategy for frequent travel awards; answer a listener’s Continue Reading →