What’s the worst travel experience you’ve ever had?
I went on a trip one time (this is fiction) and everything went according to plan. Every flight was on time there was no turbulence, and my gate connections were perfect.I got a middle seat, but nobody sat on either side of me.
We went to all the tourist attractions in that city just like on the itinerary. We just wanted to check it off our checklist.We did not talk to any locals and didn’t try to learn the language.
What a nightmare.
I brought home saltwater taffy for everybody in the office as well as a few bags of pretzels, I stole from the
What’s one piece of travel advice you always follow?
I am so consistently inconsistent that I never follow anything all that consistently. I walk around airport with this mantra all the time.
Passport Wallet Phone
And then I head out on my adventure open to whatever the world may throw at me. We always hope nothing goes wrong, but seriously if something goes wrong, they’re always great stories to tell.
We all are kind of familiar with the fine art of goal setting.
Goals should be moderately difficult.
Goal should be concrete and measurable.
The real challenge is not determining if you want the result, but if you are willing to accept the sacrifices required to achieve your goal. Do you want the lifestyle that comes with your quest? Do you want the boring and ugly process that comes before the exciting and glamorous outcome?
Certainly I do goals but they are more in the general direction of which way I want to go as opposed to I want to run a three hour marathon by the time I’m 32 years ago.
I bring that one out because that was one of my goals that I said for myself, and it didn’t matter whether I reached it or not. I believe I did that in Boston. But achieving that goal wasn’t that important as I’ve developed a lifestyle that helped making that goal possible. Goes from eating habits, steady workouts, and a little bit of good luck.
Writiting
I set a goal of having 15 short stories published so I could put them together in a compilation in a form of a book. I don’t want to worry just to get to that goal. I am currently at 12 stories published, but I want the last three stories to be not just to get published but to be a reflection of myself.
As long as it makes me rich what the funk do I care.
Larry Ellison – chief operating narcissist Oracle Corp.
Here is an interesting story of artificial lack of intelligence. I had just gotten back from a run. My uncle who was a smoker and heavy drinker was heading out for a date. He asked me to rub some sweat on him, so his date would think he worked out.
Midnight Honk-Fests: Dozens of Waymo vehicles parked or idling in a depot in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood repeatedly honked at each other overnight while attempting to navigate or squeeze past one another, waking up local residents.
