A Saul and the Restless Feature Confessions of a Travel-Weary Road Warrior: Tips and Thoughts on Travel for Business and to Gain Life Experience

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10 Reasons for Travel (or at Least, to Travel this Website)

1. Until I bought my new car, for the opportunity to rent one that's nicer than the one I have. Click here for travel resources.
2. To visit grocery stores--what they sell provides an insight into how the natives live (BTW--Ralph's rocks in Southern California). Click here to learn more about how to "experience" rather than "visit" a place.
3. When travelling on expense account, to visit family and friends at special moments in their lives, like my mom's 70^th birthday party, without having to pay for it.
4. To see my life and culture anew through the eyes of another Click here for an essay on insights learned from my sojourn to Cameroon.
5. For the Caribou coffee on Delta and Starbuck's coffee on United. Click here to learn why Europeans are missing out on a revenue opportunity when they don't give free refills on coffee.
6. To visit neat, off-the-track museums, like the Split Rock Lighthouse (north of Duluth, Minnesota), Baltimore Museum of Industry, the art museum in Chattanooga (the Aquarium steals all the attention), and Petersen's Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Click here for suggestions of museums to visit (from my website at school).
7. To fly cattle class (I mean, take advantage of great deals in coach-class travel)
8. To sleep in a clean room (I know what the Dateline NBC report showed, but they never checked out my home). Click here to learn more about my home (in another part of the Saul and the Restless).
9. To shop at places that I wouldn't otherwise have an opportunity to visit, like the North Georgia Premium Outlets (see how little you have to spend to fill a full-size shopping bag at the Nature Company Outlet Store). Click here to learn more about malls across America (in another part of the Saul and the Restless).
10. To accumulate frequent flyer miles, even when my voice is the only body part that travels. (The next time a long distance company calls you during dinner, ask them for details--and make them work as they interrupt you.

     

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