Today comes an email, passed along to me by my brother, from a classmate of his who was organizing a big gathering to honor the passing of his spouse. After getting commitments to attend from relatives and friends, he reserved all the necessary hotel rooms on line through the Reservations.com website and personally paid the…
A few weeks ago, I flew over to Honolulu to participate in a Friday luncheon meeting where the topic of the day was to be “train travel” in general and long-distance train travel in particular. Because it was more convenient and I wanted the opportunity to have dinner that night with friends, I decided to…
Things can and do go wrong when we travel. And if it happens while we’re out of the country, the problems become instantly worse and the unpleasant, expensive and inconvenient consequences are increased by . . . well, by a lot, depending on where it happens. OK, for what it’s worth, here’s what I do…