A hotel conference focused on driving direct bookings is the topic that brought me to Mexico City. Three nights and two days did not leave nearly enough time to experience the city in its entirety, especially considering my days would be spent inside a conference hall, but alas, I knew I would make the most […]

15 hours to Hong Kong, 3 hours to Beijing, 12 hour time difference – it felt incredible to be back in China, 8 years since our last visit, this time with two kids in tow. The whole trip was fairly seamless, and we arrived in beautiful Beijing in high spirits, wildly jetlagged, but somehow full […]

2 days before our departure to Kathmandu from Boston, with a stop in Doha, I got the email stating our 5 hour layover at Hamad International Airport would actually be 15 hours. Yikes – that’s way too long to spend in an airport! So I did some last minute research and booked the Banyan Tree […]

As rain splashed down upon me, I looked into café window after café window to find anything I could quickly consume. In a city where Pret a Manger closes at 5pm, it’s challenging to find what I was looking for at 530pm… but I was hungry, and in need of something satisfying prior to the […]