Travel Betty

Please excuse me a minute, I think I’m gonna to rant…
Do you hate paying good money for bad food on an airplane? Do you hate having to make repeated purchases of 3 oz. bottles of hair gel because a full-sized bottle results in a $35 checked luggage fee each way? Do you resent your own [...]

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As noted in my open letter to Benjamin Weisman, I suffer from panic attacks. They started back when I was in grad school, but they weren’t too bad then. Usually they occurred while I was driving and I’d just roll down the window or turn on the AC to feel something moving around me and [...]

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1. Flies out of SFO’s International terminal, so you get to feel like you’re a global jet-setter even if you’re just going to Seattle. The terminal is newer, more spacious, has better food and is a much more relaxed environment than the domestic terminals. This has nothing to do with [...]

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It goes without saying that when you fly, you should reserve seats ahead of time, least you end up in the dreaded middle. But it’s also important that when you’re flying on consecutive flights, especially long ones, that you alternate between the left and right sides of the plane or switch up between window and [...]

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I’d heard a lot about Singapore Airlines having the best food of any airline. But, if you set one of their default meals down in front of me along with any other airlines’, I wouldn’t be able to tell which was which.
On the way over to Bali, my meal was fine, but not notable in [...]

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A man in Hong Kong is caressing me and yet we’ve barely even exchanged hellos. I’m at the airport, in a delicious place called Oriental Healing Art next to gate 41 and I’m indulging in something I always seem to talk myself out of when traveling. A foot massage.
After a 15 hour flight, my legs [...]

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Upgrades are rare. Even if you’re willing to dole out miles for the pleasure. If you’re willing to dole out money, more power to you, Richie Rich.
Here’s a recent lesson I lived and learned so you don’t have to make the same mistake.
My grand plan back when I first conceived of the Bali trip was [...]

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You know when sometimes you just don’t spend time to think things through? You just take it all at face value? I mean, am I the only one who just automatically accepted that Alaska Airlines had painted Bob Marley on the tails of their planes?

Seriously, one day I finally stopped for a moment and [...]

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So Travel Boyfriend, as sweet as he is, decided to take me to New Orleans for my birthday. He had a business trip scheduled there during my birthday week (Yes, I celebrate the whole week. I’m a Leo after all.) and I decided that instead of going for just a long weekend or whatnot, that [...]

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We’ve all seen and maybe even used moving sidewalks at the airport. It’s a simple system. If you’re going to stand, do it on the right. If you’re going to walk, do it on your left. If you’ve got an unmanageable brood of children or can’t keep tabs over the many pieces of your luggage [...]

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