According to travel websites, there are either eighteen or seven or ten or five types of travelers. With labels like “The Hunter Gatherer,” “The Collector,” “Free Spirit” and my favorite, “Chatty Cathy,” I read through every one of them and still couldn’t find me. None of them addressed the kind of traveler I am: “Giant […]
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Saving Face on Vacation
I know a few people who are in the skin care and beauty biz and I have a request: Can you come up with a cream or something that takes away Vacation Face and Travel Body? It’s a real 21st century problem. The first person who invents something that when you look in a hotel […]
My Next Career: Trip Packing Advisor
Ever since I read The Accidental Tourist I’ve thought that a travel writer would be a good job for me. If Rick Steves wants to send me to some obscure Third World country, I’d be happy to sit on the plane and write ethereal observations in William Hurt’s soothing voice. I would go to the […]
Hotel Shampoo? Yes, Please
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I’m having some great hair days on a vacation. I would count my blessings, but I’m too busy trying to figure out what deal I may have inadvertently made with the devil to have this prize land in my lap. My experience […]
What Happens in Key West is Too Uneventful to Go Anywhere Else Anyway
I am reporting live from Key West, where I’m on a Thanksgiving vacation. You know, the traditional all-American island, tropical, step-over-the-drunks-in-the-street, Key West vacation. This is a nice vacation for a middle-aged woman, her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. As it turns out, you don’t have to drink yourself blind when you’re in Key West. […]