Weather Sites for While You Travel
By jmoorhead on January 20th, 2009
For those of you who travel and always travel with a rain coat, umbrella and gloves… For those like me, who rarely travel with a coat… Who needs a coat when you run from a hotel to a warm cab, to a warm office building and to a warm airport and plane? Of course, when you finally get to your home airport, that car is nice and chilly after sitting the Nebraska cold in the parking garage.
Green as Money / Green as a Business
By jmoorhead on January 20th, 2009
Here are a few other sites that I found to be very insightful on the concept of Green Travel, Business and Concepts:
Top Green Blog / Columnist
By jmoorhead on January 20th, 2009
Here is a site that I recently found and has a lot of great “Green” information…
Outside Magazine - Top Travel Stuff
By jmoorhead on January 20th, 2009
In going through one of my most recent Outside Magazines, they listed a bunch of travel sites and stuff…
I wanted to go through that here b/c I love Outside Magazine and what they write on.
Booking:
Travel Planning:
Where to Stay:
Online Video/ Travel Videos:
What is a Tourist? The College Tour will Now Begin…
By jmoorhead on January 13th, 2009
By definition a tourist is a person that travels at least 100 miles and spends the night. One of the largest group of tourists not marketed to is parents visiting their kids at college. What is interesting about this group is the number of family and friends that I know that when traveling love to visit the local colleges.
My favorite campuses to visit have been:
- Duke University
- Notre Dame
- Georgetown
- Hastings College (alum)
I’d still love to visit:
- Yale
- Harvard
- UCLA
- University of Texas
Nothing like picking up a college T-Shirt from a school you never attended…
Best 2 Hotels in the United States… For me at least!
By jmoorhead on January 13th, 2009
As we continue to write about Travel and Gather, and continue to look towards a launch. It is important to remember the places that we visit… I have two hotels that I list as the top 2. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, and I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t visited them all.
Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. If you stay there, make sure that you stay in the towers. The other side of the hotel is more “historic”, but the towers are new, updated and beyond spacious. The 1 bedroom suite that we stayed in had:
- Full kitchen
- Walk in closet
- 2 bathrooms
- Master Bath had jacuzzi tub, shower, and separate toilet room… Double sinks
- Two balconies overlooking the ocean
- 2 Flat screen TV’s
- Stereo system
- Secured foyer
The only downside to the entire experience, was the cost to rent two chairs and an umbrella on the beach. Otherwise, the drinks were great, the pool amazing, the ocean water clear, and the entire experience worth every penny.
The 2nd place that I’d go back to again and again is Boston’s Marriott in Copely Place. All of the best shops, food and sites are right there. You can get to the historic parts of Boston with a simple cab ride, and you have 2 full malls attached to the hotel. You even have a grocery store across the street, and a Starbucks on your way. The rooms are clean and amazing, the drinks and room service were perfect.
These are my 2 favorite places to visit, but my traveling life hasn’t stopped yet… So I hope to be able to visit these places again and find some others that will potentially replace these 2.
Happy travels…
Where Will You Travel this Year?
By jmoorhead on January 12th, 2009
Travel and Gather is going to allow you to see where the most popular destination is at any given time. As we launch Travel and Gather it will be interesting to see if our users follow the common path of other research out there that says the top destinations will once again be Las Vegas and Orlando.
If you are a business traveler, then you know that these two cities are “Conference Headquarters” for small, large and enormous conferences.
Yet, the majority of the Top Spots are located in Mexico. Must be a cheap place to make your dollar go further while we exist in this recession.
So let us know where you plan to go…
Eat Like a Local
By jmoorhead on January 12th, 2009
I came across this Website on one of my recent searches, and like it a lot. Clean and easy to use… There are many more like it out there, but always nice to have options when traveling:
Men vs. Women in the Recession
By jmoorhead on January 12th, 2009
I just read an article in USA Today that talks about more men are losing their job during this recession than women. Which I find to be interesting, since I have recently been laid off from a publicly traded company with offices worldwide.
As I was told, the US is feeling the brunt of this economy meltdown. Our firm reduced the US staff by 40%, and of those 9 people let go, 7 were men. The article goes on to say why this is the case, but simply put I think this all makes a huge difference if you are a one-income family or a two-income family.
With all of the layoffs happening around the world, and in particular in the United States we need to take advantage of our travels and connections. I wouldn’t have the relationships that I do with family, friends, and customers / colleagues if I wasn’t willing to spend nights away from the family, in a lousy hotel, sitting on a dirty airplane, and eating food that kills you bite by bite.
Travel and Gather will be our access to these relationships. It will cultivate that which an Email or Phone Call just can’t do.
Define Computer
By jmoorhead on January 12th, 2009
As I sat in a coffee shop last week for a meeting, all 3 of us pulled out laptops and 3 smart phones. We had 2 MacBook Pros and 1 MacBook Air. Yet, each of us were constantly using our smart phones too. We had 2 Blackberries and 1 Motorola Q.
What amazes me about this “mobile office” is the pure number of technologies that each of us carry around with us when we travel. For me, my laptop is my security blanket. It is my refuge for the late nights in the hotel room when nothing is on the tube and the only interaction that I have with another human being is room service.
Yet, some people pack even more… One of the guys that showed up at the coffee shop had his MacBook Pro, a Laptop stand that weighed 10 pounds and full size keyboard for his laptop.
When I was on the road quite a bit, I’d actually pack a PC and a Mac when I needed… Most companies choose to go the route of a PC because the laptops are typically cheaper, but rarely are they as useful.
That is why, the new Acer Aspire One “netbook” is so interesting to me. It is cheap, at under $400 and yet small enough that if you HAVE to have a PC laptop, then you can use this.
My real question is, when are we going to get to the point of doing everything on our Mobile Phones? Is there ever going to be a phone that is as powerful and useful as a laptop? Will we have an infrared keyboard that is full sized that we shine on our hotel desk, and the camera on the phone shoots an image onto the wall so you have a full sized screen being projected?
That has to be the future!
