TravelCommons

TravelCommons

The Frequent Traveler's Podcast. The voice of the frequent traveler -- it's more about the journey than the destination

Episodes

Wrapping Up the TravelCommons Journey

May 23, 2024 • 25 mins
Finishing up 19 years of thinking way too much about travel, I indulge in a little bit of nostalgia and talk about my personal travel philosophy. But before that, we compare three Mid-South river cities -- Nashville, Louisville, and Memphis -- talk about the recovery of business travel, and enjoy a full listener mail bag.

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Smile for Security: Facial Recognition in Travel

April 11, 2024 • 39 mins
Using my face as my boarding pass to get on a flight to Oaxaca, Mexico and then as my passport to get back in the US got me thinking about how facial recognition has permeated the travel experience. To help us understand where this is going, we talk with two travel industry experts, Dr. Sheldon Jacobson and Henry Harteveldt. But before that, we talk about eating grasshoppers, an EV experience with Avis, and a couple of my travel ti...

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London Vacation Rental Woes; Hertz's EV Retreat

February 28, 2024 • 28 mins
I walked by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre after a weekend of wrestling with Booking.com and TravelNest‘s service agents, trying unsuccessfully to not let them screw up my London vacation rental. The Macbeth soliloquy about a tale “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” pretty much summed up my experience — lots of talk that yielded nothing. But before that, we catch up on Hertz’s EV reversal, Sioux City, Iowa’s embrace of their ...

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Renting a Tesla; 2023 Traveler Gift Guide

November 7, 2023 • 25 mins
It’s the sustainability episode of the TravelCommons podcast, talking about my experience renting a Tesla from Hertz and my road-tested list of Christmas gift suggestions for the frequent traveler(s) in your life. I also talk about some new TSA biometrics equipment I faced (literally) in Nashville and yet another update on the EU’s ETIAS system and the US’s Real ID.

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Cheers to Beer Tourism and Travel

September 29, 2023 • 29 mins
In this beer-focused episode, John Holl, editor of All About Beer, gives us his take on beer tourism and tips on how to beer travels. I talk about my experience planning my Asheville, NC taproom visits with ChatGPT. We also dive deep into the new JD Power Airport Satisfaction Survey and do a quick update about the EU's delayed ETIAS system.

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Checking Out Holland’s Tulip Festival

August 24, 2023 • 29 mins
In this episode, I dive deep into our Dutch tulip-themed trip last April. Before the tulip festival stories, I randomly wander through a potpourri of travel topics — TSA passenger volumes returning to pre-COVID levels, having a surprisingly satisfying customer service experience with American Airlines, Hertz’s EV push, and a bit of a chuckle about the misplaced visa panic in the news coverage of the EU’s impending ETIAS system.

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Best Laid Travel Plans; Roaming Entropy

June 20, 2023 • 26 mins
Back behind the microphone after, despite my finely tuned travel plans, I had to resort to being stubbornly cranky to fix a ORD connection drama when coming home from a tulip-peeping trip in Holland. We also wander into the world of flâneuring, aimlessly walking around a city as a way to swerve overtourism. Listeners weigh in on Priority Pass lounge access and online passport renewal experiences, and I count all the apps I needed t...

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Making the Most of Miles; Nashville vs Nash-Vegas

March 31, 2023 • 24 mins
Doing a bit of winter travel, the bar tab from waiting out a weather delay got me rethinking the economics of airport lounge memberships. Doing yet more travel planning but with a focus on making the most of the points and miles we accumulated on credit cards during the pandemic. And after eight months in Nashville, I compare the two sides of the local music scene -- the Nash-Vegas honky tonks vs the smaller, eclectic off-Broadway ...

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New Year Travel Planning Tips; Gin Conquers the World

January 26, 2023 • 23 mins
With COVID travel restrictions gone, I expect people to revert back to their old ways where January is the biggest travel planning month. I wade into the debate between booking direct with travel providers vs. booking with agents and 3rd-party sites. I see how well my travel tips did during the Southwest cancellation chaos, and then pull out a little more of my conversation with Jeff Cioletti, author of the new book Imbibing for In...

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My Notes on Italy and Split, Croatia

December 24, 2022 • 24 mins
Hard up against the Christmas deadline, we compare long-distance drive times between gas and electric cars, and my travel tips vs. those from the ChatGPT AI chatbot. We talk about the latest Real ID deadline delay, and impressions from my trip to Positano, Rome, Florence, and Split, Croatia.

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My Travel Tech Stack; Imbibing for Introverts

October 31, 2022 • 28 mins
Back behind the mic after 3 week of travel in Croatia and Italy. The trip went amazingly well up to the last leg, when United's Newark team couldn't get our bags on our plane. But, I'd stuffed Apple AirTags into our luggage, so we were able to track their movements 'til they got home. That experience and a listener's tweet led to me re-visiting my travel tech stack. We then talk to Jeff Cioletti, author of the new book Imbibing for...

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Why We Travel; When The First Flight Isn’t Best

September 22, 2022 • 31 mins
Lots of different voices in this episode. Listeners growing our list of travel tips, and conversations with Dr. Sheldon Jacobson about why one of those tips — always catch the first flight out — isn’t always right, and Patricia Schultz about her new book, Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World.

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A Decade of TravelCommons

May 14, 2015 • 30 mins
Looking back over 10 years of TravelCommons
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Looking Back Over Four Years of TravelCommons

May 14, 2009 • 24 mins
The fourth year anniversary episode of TravelCommons
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Looking Back Over The First Year

June 13, 2006 • 28 mins
The first year anniversary episode of TravelCommons
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TravelCommons Promo

July 6, 2005 • 2 mins
A Taste of TravelCommons - Telling travel stories from hotel bathrooms around the country
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