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So Long 2014 – Embracing the Adventure
A funny thing happened the other day. I went back and read everything I wrote at the beginning of 2014. It made me laugh, because it was all about how the previous year had been dominated by big events, taking on a big new challenge at work, and spending 10 days on a European vacation,…
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Travel enough, and luggage handlers or the TSA will damage your luggage. There’s simply no way around it. So when L.L. Bean sells me luggage with a lifetime replacement guarantee, and less than four months later, this is the result, I wonder how this is going to work out for the rest of my lifetime….
Linked – Research planned into assaults and violence against women on flights
I’ll be interested to see the results of this study. In my years of heavy-duty travel I had not been aware of any female passengers on flights I had been on being harassed, though I 100% realize that as a man, my experience of air travel didn’t include really thinking about that risk, either. I…
