funny travel stories

One of my guilty pleasures when traveling is walking around grocery stores and, even better, supermarkets. It doesn’t matter if it’s an H.E.B. in New Braunfels, TX, a Lawson’s in …

Pilots, flight attendants and other cabin crew have very important jobs, most of which have something to do, in some way, shape or form, with our safety. But that’s not …

Complainers gonna complain. And if they can find a place to complain to (here’s how to get an actual person when you contact travel companies), complain they will. Sometimes their …

Ladies, this is mainly for you, but guys, this actually could potentially help you, too, if you have a manspreader next to you while on a plane. Manspreading. It’s been …

Sometimes I’ll Google something just for fun. My name (to see what mischief I’ve been up to now). A TV show I watched when I was a little kid, or …

We’d like to think that most people follow the Golden Rule and treat others like they would like to be treated. And although it’s probably safe to say that *most* …

With rare exception (*cough* TSA’s social media presence *cough*), one generally wouldn’t put the words “U.S. government” and “sense of humor” in the same sentence. Well, unless you include the …

Swinging, sometimes called wife-swapping, husband-swapping, or partner-swapping, is a sexual activity in which both singles and partners in a committed relationship sexually engage with others for recreational purposes (thanks, Wikipedia!). …

No one wants to be stuck in a plane for any longer than they have to, but sometimes emergencies happen. Weather can prevent you from landing for a while. We …

As my husband wrote a while back, we’ve never flown on Ryanair (mainly because I won’t let him book a flight on them. But we’ve been around the travel block …