Signs that you're traveling too much....
Oct 7, 2018, 1:25 pm
#256
Join Date: Nov 2011
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I stay mostly at Marriott's now and I just walk out almost all the time. Sometimes I'm nice enough to check out in the app.
Oct 10, 2018, 11:59 pm
#258
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SJC/SFO
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No, that's the sign of a wannabe traveler. A person who truly travels too much posts about crazy stuff as if it's all in a week's work-- because it is. Like the time I missed a train back to the big city and was put up in a hotel with bathroom tilework of cavorting naked people and a dispenser of hand lotion bolted to the wall next to the bed. Back to work the next morning.
Oct 11, 2018, 10:33 am
#260
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Oct 12, 2018, 1:06 pm
#261
Join Date: Aug 2018
Programs: AA Gold; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 31
Also, when you can drive unaided around cities three time-zones away, but need Google Maps to find the K-Mart in your "home"-town.
Bonus: When you know driving shortcuts that the locals don't even know about.
Oct 12, 2018, 1:36 pm
#262
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You wake up in a hotel room and totally forget where you are. Not just in the moments after you wake, but for a good 20 minutes..you have to grab the phone book or look at your phone. This has happened to me more than once..usually after a whirlwind tour of cities in a short period of time. Looking out the window is no great help either, as many places in the US..particularly in the midwest, look the same from a geographical and biospheric standpoint..same trees, same hills, same weather. And same chain businesses outside the window.
Oct 15, 2018, 9:58 pm
#264
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You know you've been in the same hotel too often when you notice that the light switches in your room this week are wired differently than the room switches in every other room you've been in over the past year. And then you call the front desk about it, and they have no clue that this particular room is different.
Oct 15, 2018, 10:15 pm
#265
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Jun 25, 2019, 8:58 pm
#268
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Bumping this thread, because I finally feel like I have a good one, and I loved reading the stories in the old one.
Needed to get and wrap a gift today. Was going to get it at Walmart so I could get a gift bag etc all in one shot.
Was driving past a Best Buy that would also have what I needed.
My gift bag became the little paper bag Hilton gives you with your check in waters, and my tissue paper was today's front page of USA Today.
Nailed it.
Needed to get and wrap a gift today. Was going to get it at Walmart so I could get a gift bag etc all in one shot.
Was driving past a Best Buy that would also have what I needed.
My gift bag became the little paper bag Hilton gives you with your check in waters, and my tissue paper was today's front page of USA Today.
Nailed it.
Jun 26, 2019, 11:02 pm
#269
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Hits too close to home. Also, often when going to too many countries with different languages in a short period of time, I will sometimes forget WHICH language is the one for the country I'm in. Got in an uber after dinner tonight and the Uber driver asked me a question in Spanish (I'm in Mexico) and I replied in French before I realized wrong country for that.
Jun 29, 2019, 8:14 am
#270
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Posts: 960
Just flew WAW-ZRH and when watching the IFE-show (these super nice but small overhead ones on CS3) it
dawned to me that we will pass my old hometown where I was raised decades ago (and is some 400 miles away from where I live now).
PLUS it was absolute superb weather, so I was able to do a nice shot with the phone's cam.
dawned to me that we will pass my old hometown where I was raised decades ago (and is some 400 miles away from where I live now).
PLUS it was absolute superb weather, so I was able to do a nice shot with the phone's cam.