Tag: Travel
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My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
I’ve finally been able to realize that “maximizing” an experience is very different than eating/drinking/trying everything you’re given. If you’re privileged enough to have free food and drinks in front of your often, them’s words to live by. My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
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Coté Memo #064: I’m calling from Mexico, someone has stolen the Venus de Milo!
Follow-up We’re up to 90 subscribers and one of you went a helped out one of our sponsors (The Craftsman PM), so thanks! Tech & Work World Sayulita I had a nice chance to spend the week in Mexico this week. A friend of mine rented a house here in Sayulita and asked if we…
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What they will not do is maintain steady eye contact or smile. If a stranger of the opposite sex smiles at you, it’s best to do as the French do and return only a blank look before turning away. If you smile back, you might find yourself in a Pepé Le Pew–type situation. http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3925.html
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There used to be time to arrive. Incremental geographical changes would ease the inner transitions: desert would gradually give way to shrub, savannah to grassland. At the harbour, the camels would be unloaded, a room would be found overlooking the customs house, passage would be negotiated on a steamer. Flying fish would skim past the…
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A long wait for a scanning machine can induce many of us to start asking ourselves if we have perhaps after all left home with an explosive device hidden in our case, or unwittingly submitted to a months-long terrorist training course. A Week at the Airport, Alain de Botton
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The return of story telling with splash of booze
“Tony is an incredibly strong storyteller—he tells stories through food and travel and a little alcohol mixed in,” says Zucker. “Really, that’s what CNN should be about. I learned as much about Israel and the Palestinians from Tony’s hour on Jerusalem as I did from any reporting that I’ve seen.” I think there’s something magical…
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Next to the food court – speaking of ambiguous instructions
Please note that using a GPS system will not give you the correct location of the Global Entry Office. Unfamiliar with the Orlando International Airport follow these instructions. As you approach Orlando International Airport stay in the lane for “Terminal B”, parking is available in the “B” parking garage. Once in the terminal take the…
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Anything that can be learned by a normal American adult on a trip to a foreign country (of less than one year’s duration) can be learned more quickly, cheaply, and easily by visiting the San Diego Public Library. Simon’s Travel Theorem, As read in the preface to The Halo Effect. A bit more here too,…
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Coté Memo: 3:30am plastic man traveling, keeping up the VMware’s CAGR
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #26. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +1. DANDY! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference…
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Lowlands Trip Photos, 1
We’re back from a trip to The Netherlands and Belgium. I’ve got all the photos I took (and some I stole from Kim), but here’s a first batch of a selection of them, working backwards chronologically. See more in the full set, and Kim will have a whole lot more some day (and not just…
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Mason and Melissa’s Wedding
This past weekend, we all went out to California for our friends Mason and Melissa’s wedding. It was in a fantastic resort-y place just south of Yosemite. Also, it was Cormac’s first flight! Here are some photos: With the groom before the wedding. Next to a redwood in Yosemite. The wedding. Oath by mustache. First…
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Lost on a Pacific Resort Island, Saved by HEB
In this dream, I was traveling with a group of people, including Kim. In one leg of our travel, someone planned a detour or a plane crash which landed us on Maui. We were on the beach of Maui, and not knowing the people too well, I split off from them. This island wasn’t really…
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Lost Baggage
Here’s a little “trip tip” for you: don’t put your keys in luggage you check. It seems like a good idea, of course. But the key assumption that your baggage will arrive home at the same time you will — instead of 9 hours later…you know, around 2:30AM — may not pan out. In short:…
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