Bottles And Breasts
By Craig Altschul Look, whoever said “getting there is half the fun” never flew there. It’s not half the fun. It’s no fun at all Maybe it was fun in the days of the Pan Am Clippers or when First Class meant more than a hot, sloppy towel and a dry turkey wrap. There was […]
Follow The New Rules
By Craig Altschul I promised to tell you about going to Vienna sans skis in the dead of winter or the heat of Christmas season however one likes to describe it. But, I lied. It will have to wait until next time. I have a few more airline travel gripes to share. I’ll bet you […]
Wien In Winter
By Craig Altschul I found a neat trick to keep Peggi’s credit card in her purse as while strolling the Kartnerstrasse in Vienna. OK, so it wasn’t intentional, but it was more than effective. We went to Vienna for Christmas. This column is a bit late, but not too late for you to plan for […]
A Bad Day On the Beach
By Craig Altschul My friend, the late irascible ski writer I. William Berry, hated to fly. To him, being aboard a silver bullet in the sky was tantamount to being shot from cannon. Hated it. Ski Magazine insisted that he do a feature story on skiing in the Alps. After all, his editors figured, he’d trashed […]
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 […]
