Author: mark
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Podcast #83 – Business Travel in India; iPad vs. Netbook
Returning from a week in India, I started recording this podcast in the business class toilet of an AA flight from Delhi to Chicago. For the sake of listeners’ ears and the bladders of fellow passengers, I finished it in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago. We talk about how Twitter has led me to some great meals while on… Continue Reading →
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Podcast #82 – Changing My Travel; New Mileage Programs in a New Year
The way I travel has changed significantly with my New Year’s career change. Moving from consulting to the corporate world, I no longer bounce across the country. Instead, I spend a week in one of my company’s three offices. This has required a bit of an attitude adjustment with regards to travel. The new job also drove me to reexamine… Continue Reading →
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Podcast #81 – More Travel Tips; Up in The Air; Security Stories
Coming to you today from the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago. In this episode, listeners add to our list of “Road Warrior 201” tips for this holiday travel season, I give my impressions of the new George Clooney movie Up in the Air, and gather up some stories about airport security into a Jeopardy-like topic I call “Security Potpourri”. Here’s… Continue Reading →
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Up in the Air — Captures Life in the “Travel Bubble”
Last Friday night, my wife and I found the one theater in Chicago showing Up in the Air (it’s in very limited release until Christmas). Ever since the preview trailers hit the Web, people have been asking me — “Is this what your life is like?” Watching the opening sequence — a montage of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) going through… Continue Reading →
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Podcast #80 – Holiday Travel Tips; Frequent Flyer Documentary
Coming to you today from the Courtyard Hotel just across from Philadelphia’s City Hall in the midst of a last quick trip before leaving the airports to the Thanksgiving traveling crush. In this episode, we talk about ways of keeping track of travel receipts and an airport theft ring that targeted black luggage bags. I update last year’s “Road Warrior… Continue Reading →
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Podcast #79 – Skipping Rental Cars, WiFi or 3G?
Coming to you today from the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago, Illinois at the end of one of those travel weeks where I lost control of my schedule – DC to Dallas to Houston to LA. In this episode, we talk about the problems with LAX security, my choices for white noise when I’m trying to sleep on an airplane,… Continue Reading →
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Skipping the Rental Car
Last week, I had to get from downtown Washington DC to a Northern Virginia suburb for a client dinner. I looked at the Metro map, rang up some car services, but finally gritted my teeth and rented a car. That’s pretty much my attitude toward car rentals these days — the choice of last resort. It wasn’t always this way.… Continue Reading →
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Podcast #78 – Lost in Distraction, Movie About Us
Coming to you today from the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago, Illinois at the start of what’s looking like 6 weeks of straight travel. In this episode, we talk about the need to have a place to blow off steam after a frustrating day of travel, and how the distractions of cell phone calls have caused me to leave a… Continue Reading →