I remember (from my Chicago days) the wonderful feeling of getting off a plane in a tropical destination, having departed just hours earlier from sub-zero temperatures. Except for one thing: It’s a drag to lug a winter coat in paradise. This week Harriet Baskas wrote...
Air travel
Keep Your Shoes On and Carry On
A few weeks ago I noticed an ad on the Transportation Security Administration website, tsa.gov. “Want to keep your shoes on? TSA PreCheck,” it says, alongside an image a woman in red shoes (or at least her bottom half). Another ad for signups says, “Keep those shoes...
Cool Stuff: Behind the Scenes at Cathay Pacific
Nothing is more fun than going behind the curtain at an airline, airport or hotel, to see how things really work. Luckily, travel writers get to do just that every now and then. So begins my recent post for The Bay Area Traveler (thebat-SF.com) about the day I spent...