Travel/Life Balance

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Repetition – The More Things Change…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the mantra I’m repeating this morning. Repetition isn’t a bad thing.  In many ways, its healthy.  Or rather, its the basis from which healthy habits are formed. I woke up this morning to an interesting Fast Company article in my inbox this morning that suggested…

Saying Yes

This past holiday weekend was a whirlwind of deja vu… Wandering the canals in Venice and accidentally stumbling into a cicchetti bar and saying yes, “I think I was here before”. Experiencing an international flight cancellation and trying to get back to the US on an overbooked Thanksgiving weekend and saying yes, “I am pretty sure I was…

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Routines – Six Things I’m Doing Right and Six Things I Have to Improve

“I was in five different states this week.” “I forgot I was driving my own car and kept looking for the beige Toyota in the parking garage.” “I haven’t had anything but condiments in my refrigerator in the past two months.” “I can’t remember what its like to not have jet lag.” All of these…

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It’s Okay to Skip the First Class Lounge (and Other Realities of Business Travel)

If you have found yourself here at the Jetsetter’s Homestead, chances are fairly good that you landed here either because you read a lot of travel blogs already or because you are researching upcoming travel (and thus will soon be buried in the world of travel blogs).  It seems like everyone has a travel blog these…