Three flights in five days. It started with three flights in five days that crossed the country on a diagonal and stopped in the middle at home in Chicago for a whopping 26 hours. Clearly, I have no regard for my own sanity. My boss asked me if I wanted to go to Seattle for Read more
When our Europe trip took up most of Stephanie’s days off for the year and we had to push our annual October family getaway to Christmas, I started looking for destinations for a short weekend trip. Weekend trips are tricky. If you fly out Friday night and fly home Sunday night, you have a day Read more
I didn’t come to Paris expecting to buy a new Louis Vuitton handbag. My last Louis purchase was in Aruba two years ago. I planned that one. I planned for that one – I called the bank beforehand to authorize a large purchase in a foreign country, I scoured the locations page of the LV Read more
Leaving Paris for Chicago was bad enough. A 4:30 am wakeup call so we could leave this beautiful place we’d spent weeks exploring? That’s just torturous. We had to be out of the hotel by 5:30 am to have enough time to check in for our flight, validate and process our VAT return, check our Read more
I’ve been so busy over the past two weeks. I wish I could say I was jetsetting to some exotic place (…or any place), or that I was spending every waking moment enjoying this warm extended fall we’re experiencing in Chicago, but the truth is not nearly as glamorous: I was at work. Between the Read more
