Trying to recover from a long weekend of eating and drinking through the neighborhoods of South Philly. Our movable feast reminded me that food may be the one experience of a place left that can’t be easily exported and bought on-line. We talk about the FBI’s cybersecurity warning to work-from-home types using hotels for getaway offices, and are a bit amazed at how fast last year’s 'flight shaming' gave way to 'flights to nowhere.' And we think about 'quarantine theater' — how cities and states are focusing on activities to signal they are serious about COVID, but that most folks know aren’t really effective.

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Surviving Quarantine Theater; Traveling for Food

Drivable getaway to Michigan's Upper Peninsula; looking back 6 months to start of pandemic; downloading 12 years of TripIt data; what to do with travel card points we can't use?

167 — 6 Months On; Why Keep Travel Cards??

Travel planning amidst changing quarantines and lockdowns; writing off Barcelona trip; Emily Thomas and her new book "The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad"

166 — What Is The Meaning of Travel?

Experiences on my first post-lockdown flight; Hertz's new cleaning program; reviewing my new pair of Bose headphones, wonder when business travel will return

165 — First Post-Lockdown Flight; When Does Business Travel Come Back?

First post-lockdown trip, a fast drive down I-65. Talk about hotels swapping hospitality for sanitation, Hertz's bankruptcy, tips for travel credit card usage

164 — First Post-Lockdown Trips; Travel Credit Cards

People are doing short car trips. Before doing more extensive travel, they'll want more spacing in aircraft, travel insurance, and finding medical attention on the road

163 — New World of Travel Insurance; Getting Medical Help On The Road

Cyberattacks on frequent flyer accounts now that we aren't checking them; planning my post-pandemic trips; re-reading my travel journals provides a travel fix

162 — Post-Corona Trip Planning; Keeping a Travel Journal

Things started out well, skipping out on Chicago winter for a drive down to Key West. But then last week, coronavirus hit the US and everything unraveled

161 — New Crisis, Old Question; Driving Down to Key West

Fading away of seatback entertainment; watching the Super Bowl across flights and airports; Uber and Lyft looking like the taxi companies they fought to replace

160 — Disappearing Seatback Screens; Shrinking Difference Between Ride-Share and Taxis

Extreme travel planning for a 9-week sabbatical trip thru Southeast Asia; Fasten Seatbelt signs and a bad back; Comparing Kickstarter power adapters

159 — Planning the Trip of a Lifetime in Southeast Asia

December trips to Phoenix and Sedona, AZ; a Christmas flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; good and bad Hertz experiences; odds-‘n’-ends from my travel notebooks

158 — Travel Potpourri for $400, Alex

Wrapping up my Charlottesville, VA travel; a quick trip in the Baltics; a listener talks about the reason for his day trip from Washington, DC to Hong Kong.

157 — Notes from the Baltics-Riga, Latvia and Tallinn, Estonia

JD Power's 2019 Airport Satisfaction Survey; eScooters; shopping for a smaller bag to fit Euro budget airline, need to delete Bluetooth pairings in rental cars.

156 — Airport Satisfaction; eScooters; Smaller Luggage

No problems with 787's flying 4,800 miles to Europe and back, but the 560-mile regional jet flights have been problems; Krakow and Budapest street food

155 — RJ Delays; Street Food in Poland and Hungary

Booking relaxed flight itineraries lessens impact of summer storms; figuring out iPhone's dual SIM feature; will we still love Uber and Lyft when their prices go up?

154 — Will We Still Love Uber When The Prices Go Up?

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

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