Dec 21, 2007
Join me in making New Year’s resolutions for travel. 10 of mine appear below, add your own through my holiday hiatus
From December 24 to January 2, this blog will be on vacation. But the message boards will remain up-and-running. I've composed my own, initial, New Year's Resolutions for travel (the non-travel ones are too personal to reveal) in which I promise to change my ways in 2008, and I hope that you'll attach yours as responses. And as we periodically awake from our holiday stupor, let's all check those responses (including my own after-thoughts) now and then.
In 2008, I will faithfully fulfill the following solemn travel pledges:
1) I will limit myself to carry-ons, and never check a single bag; 2) I will carry sandwiches from home, and never bite into a single airline snack; 3) I will use public transportation from airport into town; 4) I will never book a connecting flight; if there's no non-stop to my destination, I won't go there (with some exceptions); 5) I will share courses with my wife, ordering a single main plate for the two of us; 6) I will stop patronizing "duty-free" shops; 7) I will never book an uncomfortable "boutique hotel" designed by a famous fashionista; 8) I will never use a credit card that doesn't earn frequent flyer mileage; 9) I will never board a cruiseship carrying more than 700 passengers; and 10) I will remain calm and unperturbed by refusing to read the travel section of the New York Times.
Those are mine (and I reserve the right to add more over the next nine days). How about yours?
Happy Holidays to everyone, and a peaceful New Year.
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In 2008, I will faithfully fulfill the following solemn travel pledges:
1) I will limit myself to carry-ons, and never check a single bag; 2) I will carry sandwiches from home, and never bite into a single airline snack; 3) I will use public transportation from airport into town; 4) I will never book a connecting flight; if there's no non-stop to my destination, I won't go there (with some exceptions); 5) I will share courses with my wife, ordering a single main plate for the two of us; 6) I will stop patronizing "duty-free" shops; 7) I will never book an uncomfortable "boutique hotel" designed by a famous fashionista; 8) I will never use a credit card that doesn't earn frequent flyer mileage; 9) I will never board a cruiseship carrying more than 700 passengers; and 10) I will remain calm and unperturbed by refusing to read the travel section of the New York Times.
Those are mine (and I reserve the right to add more over the next nine days). How about yours?
Happy Holidays to everyone, and a peaceful New Year.
Write and read comments about this post.
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