A Good Day At The Beach
By Craig Altschul I suppose if you’re going to travel with me through this column you’ll get used to a serious flaw in my travel-writing character. I have a major league preference for the Hawaiian Islands when it comes to vacation travel. Maybe it’s because these little dots in the ocean were once known as […]
Summer in the Skies
By Craig Altschul I can tell summer is here. Remember how much fun airline travel isn’t in winter? De-icing planes making you wonder if they could fly at all. Taking off layers of parkas and sweaters to get through security. The jerk who put his new ski boots in the overhead. We watch helplessly as […]
One Thing At A Time
By Craig Altschul I made a discovery recently. You probably have already made it. I can be slow on the uptake. The last few months have found me in faraway places a few times. The worst part is they all have been business trips. The best I could do was muster some hours to see […]
Travel: Weather or Not
By Craig Altschul Years ago, I told the late and irascible ski journalist, I. William Berry, that the article he wrote in SKI magazine about his trip to Austria was the least helpful travel piece I’d ever read. Bill was a good friend, so he would have been as charmingly blunt with me. Bill hated air […]
A Vacation to Where?
By Craig Altschul Have you ever had one of those moments when the question is so stunning that you stammer an answer and then, hours later,think of a snappy comeback? I did recently. Peggi and I had checked in at the airline counter for a trip to Pakistan. OK, I’ll explain why later. The tickets […]
The Road to Bormio
By Craig Altschul Travel is a funny thing. The memories we pack away to pull out at special times are never about the usual touristy things. Look, a museum is a museum. The Mona Lisa is a painting. The Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. The memories we cherish are about the […]
Deep in the Heart of Texas; Too Deep
By Craig Altschul Go figure. There I was in Baton Rouge, La., on business. I can’t think of many other reasons to visit. OK, nice town, bulging like a whale after the hurricanes, but not on my tourism radar. It was late on a Tuesday afternoon. I was headed home, just waiting to board, when […]
But, Don’t You Live Here?
By Craig Altschul There’s something you should know if you plan to visit our nation’s capital anytime soon. All of the roadways are brand new. I know it for a fact. You see, I was there on business recently and thought it was a good opportunity to connect for dinner with my old friend, Bob. […]
A Dusty Bucket List
By Craig Altschul “I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande, But my legs ain’t bowed, and my cheeks ain’t tanned… Yippi-i-o-ki-ay” The conventional wisdom is that a so-called “Bucket List” refers to the things one wants to do before he or she, well, “kicks the bucket.” Most bucket lists center on travel. Mine is […]
The Queen Sends Her Best
Had she known we were in town, no doubt the Queen would have invited us over to the palace for a spot of afternoon tea. But, we didn’t want to bother her highness, so we never told her we were coming. This was our fifth trip to London in the past decade. I figured, finally, […]
