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

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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?

Two-week trip in Ireland and Scotland; end of American Airlines' MD-80; algorithms changing how we travel; melancholy of leaving places for the last time

153 — Travel By Algorithm; Leaving Places Behind

New listener asks how to keep from being overwhelmed in a new place, restaurant trends from the Nat'l Restaurant Asso's show including growth in food delivery and sustainability, strategies for using frequent traveler points

152 — Overwhelming Travel; New and Old Restaurant Trends

Symantec threat researcher talks about travel websites leaking data and protection tactics; new flight rebooking app; Google Maps becoming a "super app"; great Breton street food

151 — Traveler Data Leaks; Brittany Street Food

Two of this month's three trips spiraled into head-shaking metaphysical "What the hell is going on here" questioning of my decision to get out of bed that morning

150 — Travel Interruptus

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

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