The Meaningful Traveler

Tag: business travel

Lightening your load

We all know we should pack lighter for our trips. But when you try it, you find some surprising benefits that go beyond lugging around more than you need.

June 5, 2014
A letter from my first week home this year

When you travel for eight weeks straight, it takes a toll on you. And then – gasp! – you realize that maybe travel isn’t all you thought it was.

February 22, 2013
Boiling frogs and business travel

Why do we pay more at fancier hotels to get less? Why do we do a lot of things on business trips we’d never do on vacation? Ask the frog in the pot…

June 21, 2012
Prairie dogs and business travel

Business travel becomes something more when a tornado and other weather anomolies take over a routine trip work trip.

June 12, 2012
Media, marketing and meaningful travel – Part 2

The alternative to a media fast as a means of dealing with all the products and ads that come your way is to do a reverse fast where you pay even more attention to what you normally ignore, especially on a business trip.

October 3, 2011
Meaningful travel and the value of lowly places

Restrooms and bathrooms can be surprising locations for meaningful travel, but they serve well to facilitate relationships and foster creativity. Seriously…

June 13, 2011
A curious trip

What do you do when you discover something like an ant crawling around the inside of your airplane window? I wonder…

May 25, 2011