Category Archives: Musings

Yesterday, I shared about United Airlines’ decision to loosen dress and appearance standards for front-line employees like flight attendants and gate agents beginning this fall. While many have applauded the move, I do wonder if it reveals another dangerous...

Ok, this is only tangentially related to travel, but I want to reflect upon a road rage incident in Los Angeles that occurred over the weekend. Road Rage In Los Angeles Sunday afternoon I was driving through a two-lane...

Christians around the world celebrate Good Friday today, the day on which Jesus died. It is a day of remembrance not just for God’s sacrifice, but for the injustice of those human agents who perpetrated it. Sadly, another death...

Abraham Lincoln is an American hero and should be commemorated as one. As an avid traveler and student of U.S. history, few men have positively shaped history in the way in which Lincoln did. Let’s not forget that in...

Travel may be my main gig, but I am a student of U.S. history at heart. As Martin Luther King Jr. day is observed today, I recount an anecdote about his last commercial flight. J. Edgar Hoover, former director...

Well, so much for that idea. After planning an extended trip to Germany until things calmed down in the United States, I’m back again in Los Angeles…right in the heart of the biggest COVID-19 hotpot in the world. A...

While I sense we are in that darkest hour before dawn, it is not totally inconceivable that 2021 may turn out even worse than 2020. With the healthcare system in Los Angeles descending into chaos, my family has booked...

Happy Cyber Monday. It’s a great day to get a good deal. Some deals, are worth pursuing…like booking travel or buying discounted gift cards for travel that will occur anyway. But perhaps this year you join me in thinking...

“Failure is success in progress.” -Albert Einstein Thanksgiving 2020 comes at a unique time in our history. We are in the midst of a pandemic that has altered our world and our way of life. It has inflicted immense...

Perhaps this is more a theological discussion than a travel one, but it is in the context of Judah 1, the new carrier many are calling the first “Christian” airline. Judah 1: A “Christian” Airline? In 2018, Everett Aaron,...

I’m wading into political waters, but it is certainly related to travel and merits our discussion. There’s a big brouhaha in California over Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to push social distancing guidelines by dining maskless and ostensibly indoors at...

It’s Election Day in the United States. As early as tonight we may know who the president will be for the next four years. And whoever that man is, I offer a travel promise today. Election Day Travel Promise:...

Fox News Host Laura Ingraham took to Twitter yesterday to share a picture from Washington Dulles Airport in an effort to make a political point. She failed. Her tweet and the reactions to it remind me of how much...

So a question for you. Why do some people think it is okay to flout the lawful rules or policies of a private company, even if they disagree? Even if they are objectively unreasonable? My Plane, My Rules See,...

One upside of the pandemic has been a renewed focus on personal hygiene, something the many of us–myself included–often neglected prior to COVID-19. But despite my best efforts, I’m sick…we are not invincible. Over the years, the stress of...

19 years after the 9/11 attacks, it is clear we still have a long way to go to reach the vision of “united we stand.” May this day be a chance for us to reflect upon our own responsibility...