I love, love, love this post: 18 Tips on how to pack for a trip, how to travel light, how to have fun in airports (where "trip" also equals "life"), by Patti Digh. I agree with every one, even if I don't always follow through on them all.
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This may be about publishing, but I think it applies just as well to meetings, and any other type of learning for that matter. (Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.)
HotelChatter asks the question of whether or not you'd want to stay on a women-only floor (for the women among us, of course. Sorry guys.). It's riffing off this ...
I just read this quote from Jamie Notter and wow did it ring for me: "when you help me to love this whole community, you will open the door to possibilities not yet imagined." While he's talking about ASAE's Great Ideas conference and the Young...
Yes, you get irradiated, but it would take 1,000 airport scans a year to equal the radiation you'd get from one chest x-ray, according to the American College of Radiology. The TSA blog has more fascinating facts about full-body scanners. ...
I think of myself as being pretty travel-savvy, but there are some travel scams in this article I hadn't heard of before: Top 10 Worst Travel Scams.
Thanks to Andrea Gold on the MeCo listserv for the pointer!
A decade or so ago, an unemployed 30-something screenwriter named Bill Geerhart thought he'd have some fun by posing as a 10-year-old named Billy who had lots of questions he wanted to ask of famous and infamous people, from serial killers to...
We should have seen this one coming: Now facing potential fines of up to $27,500 per passenger for planes that end up waiting on the runway for more than three hours, some airlines say they'd rather cancel flights. Of course they would, at $5...