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TravelCommons
Renting a Tesla; 2023 Traveler Gift Guide
2023/11/07
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It’s the sustainability episode of the TravelCommons podcast, talking about my experience renting a Tesla from Hertz and my road-tested list of Christmas gift suggestions for the frequent traveler(s) in your life. I also talk about some new TSA biometrics equipment I faced (literally) in Nashville and yet another update on the EU’s ETIAS system and the US’s Real ID.
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Cheers to Beer Tourism and Travel
2023/09/29
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In this beer-focused episode, John Holl, editor of All About Beer, gives us his take on beer tourism and tips on how to beer travels. I talk about my experience planning my Asheville, NC taproom visits with ChatGPT. We also dive deep into the new JD Power Airport Satisfaction Survey and do a quick update about the EU's delayed ETIAS system.
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Checking Out Holland’s Tulip Festival
2023/08/24
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In this episode, I dive deep into our Dutch tulip-themed trip last April. Before the tulip festival stories, I randomly wander through a potpourri of travel topics — TSA passenger volumes returning to pre-COVID levels, having a surprisingly satisfying customer service experience with American Airlines, Hertz’s EV push, and a bit of a chuckle about the misplaced visa panic in the news coverage of the EU’s impending ETIAS system.
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Best Laid Travel Plans; Roaming Entropy
2023/06/20
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Back behind the microphone after, despite my finely tuned travel plans, I had to resort to being stubbornly cranky to fix a ORD connection drama when coming home from a tulip-peeping trip in Holland. We also wander into the world of flâneuring, aimlessly walking around a city as a way to swerve overtourism. Listeners weigh in on Priority Pass lounge access and online passport renewal experiences, and I count all the apps I needed to go cashless in Holland.
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Making the Most of Miles; Nashville vs Nash-Vegas
2023/03/31
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Doing a bit of winter travel, the bar tab from waiting out a weather delay got me rethinking the economics of airport lounge memberships. Doing yet more travel planning but with a focus on making the most of the points and miles we accumulated on credit cards during the pandemic. And after eight months in Nashville, I compare the two sides of the local music scene -- the Nash-Vegas honky tonks vs the smaller, eclectic off-Broadway scene.
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New Year Travel Planning Tips; Gin Conquers the World
2023/01/26
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With COVID travel restrictions gone, I expect people to revert back to their old ways where January is the biggest travel planning month. I wade into the debate between booking direct with travel providers vs. booking with agents and 3rd-party sites. I see how well my travel tips did during the Southwest cancellation chaos, and then pull out a little more of my conversation with Jeff Cioletti, author of the new book Imbibing for Introverts; this time about how gin is going global with a local twist.
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My Notes on Italy and Split, Croatia
2022/12/24
Hard up against the Christmas deadline, we compare long-distance drive times between gas and electric cars, and my travel tips vs. those from the ChatGPT AI chatbot. We talk about the latest Real ID deadline delay, and impressions from my trip to Positano, Rome, Florence, and Split, Croatia.
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My Travel Tech Stack; Imbibing for Introverts
2022/10/31
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Back behind the mic after 3 week of travel in Croatia and Italy. The trip went amazingly well up to the last leg, when United's Newark team couldn't get our bags on our plane. But, I'd stuffed Apple AirTags into our luggage, so we were able to track their movements 'til they got home. That experience and a listener's tweet led to me re-visiting my travel tech stack. We then talk to Jeff Cioletti, author of the new book Imbibing for Introverts , about the art of drinking alone.
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Why We Travel; When The First Flight Isn’t Best
2022/09/22
Lots of different voices in this episode. Listeners growing our list of travel tips, and conversations with Dr. Sheldon Jacobson about why one of those tips — always catch the first flight out — isn’t always right, and Patricia Schultz about her new book, Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World .
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My Top 13 Tips to Survive Travel Chaos
2022/08/18
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Back behind the microphone after a couple of months of setting up the new studios in Nashville. I've been dishing out travel advice to friends and family swept up in this summer's travel chaos. I've distilled all those texts and messages down to my top 13 travel tips to help those traveling through the rest of the year. We also talk about the countries that have dropped all of the COVID testing requirements for inbound passengers, noodle about the rationale for JetBlue's dogged pursuit of Spirit Airways, Delta's new time limits for their Sky Club lounges, and why frequent flier award travel is suddenly a bargain again.
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Moving to a Non-Hub Airport; What Makes A Great Taproom?
2022/05/26
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The last episode recording in Chicago before we relocate the TravelCommons studios, and our lives, down to Nashville. We close out our threads on in-flight mask mandates and hotel housekeeping, and critique an academic paper about the moral hazard of frequent flier elite status. I talk through the changes I’ll have to make when flying out of a non-hub airport. And then, as I’m making a list of the Chicago breweries I want to re-visit before leaving, I think through the characteristics that makes a taproom great.
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Mask Mandate Scramble; Small Airport Survival
2022/04/21
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We recap the bouncing ball history of the in-flight mask mandate as we try to figure out where it's going land now that it's in the courts. But before that, I recap my trip to Santa Fe, NM, take the flight tracking app Flighty for a spin, and wonder why CLEAR keeps giving away annual subscriptions. Then we dig into the current state of regional airports with Joanne Magley, of Daytona Beach International Airport
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A Decade of TravelCommons
2015/05/14
Looking back over 10 years of TravelCommons
Looking Back Over Four Years of TravelCommons
2009/05/14
The fourth year anniversary episode of TravelCommons
Looking Back Over The First Year
2006/06/13
The first year anniversary episode of TravelCommons
TravelCommons Promo
2005/07/06
A Taste of TravelCommons - Telling travel stories from hotel bathrooms around the country
TravelCommons
http://travelcommons.com
The Frequent Traveler's Podcast. The voice of the frequent traveler -- it's more about the journey than the destination
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