Travel Betty

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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Shitting my pants in a confined space filled mostly with strangers was not a decision I ever thought I’d make. At least not sober or until I was on the far-side of 90. But there I was staring at eight unsuspecting victims, only one of whom had made any sort of commitment to me (and [...]

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So last week, Travel Boyfriend flew from San Francisco to Veracruz, Mexico having placed his portable DVD player in his checked luggage. Not surprisingly, when he arrived the DVD player was gone. His letter to the airline was responded to with a message that states: “For your information Travel Boyfriend (yes, that’s his real name), [...]

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If the word ‘fuselage’ is any indication, planes aren’t built by people with an appreciation for comfort. Ever since I made the decision to wean myself off of Xanax, it has become clear to me that if I want to enjoy flying, I need to take matters into my own hands. For my Egypt trip I [...]

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If the man, Charles de Gaulle, was anything like his namesake airport, then he must have been a scattered, indecisive, winding maze of inefficiency. The famed airport in Paris is undergoing renovations and I’m sure once they are done it’ll be the kind of place that gets you where you’re going. But for now, don’t [...]

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