Adventures in business

Travel insurance and swine flu

If your travels are affected by a disease outbreak like swine flu, what does your travel insurance cover? We don’t have any trips to Mexico now (thank goodness). However, this recent information release from Travelex (our partner for travel insurance) is great information on what would happen if YOUR trip were to be affected by something like this!

Here’s a rundown on possible situations and coverage options from Travelex.

Don’t be fooled by the calendar

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year, while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” ~ Charles Richard

Another week is nearing an end, and I haven’t gotten nearly as many things done as I hoped. The lists keep multiplying and growing longer. In fact, I haven’t even finished the task of adding all my new items to the to-do lists!

That’s a sorry state of affairs that reflects the problem with my GTD system.

Moving forward in today’s economy

Today’s quote:

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

This seems particularly appropriate today. Like so many people in America (and the world) right now, I’ve been grappling with how to go forward given our deteriorating economic situation. The plans we had just a few months ago were based on a different outlook than we have today. As the news gets worse, we keep wondering what’s next? How can we deal with this? What strategy will get us through this the best?

Brains in your head, Feet in your shoes

Inspirational quote:

You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
~ Dr. Seuss

Ah, the wisdom of Dr. Seuss!

Whenever I start sinking into “victim mode”

Grandpa and the ghost town

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The New Mexico connection:

Dawson, NM was a booming coal mining town in the early 1900s. The population was as high as 9,000 people, and there were schools, churches, a hospital, hotel, even an opera. After a couple of tragic mine explosions, the town was abandoned. Today there’s… Full article…

Women-only travel – who does this?

In the past few years, women’s travel has become a burgeoning segment of the travel industry. More and more women are flocking to tours that are organized specifically for the fair sex. But who does this? And why?

That’s a pretty common question. A lot of women wonder if this could be for them, but they’re uncertain about who else would be along…

Glad I have a time machine!

Last week, my beloved MacBook died. In the middle of watching a video, it seized up and gave me the spinning beach ball. (The one that looks so incongruously cheery, for something you’re never happy to see!) It then refused to restart, showing only the white screen of death, with a mysterious flashing folder…

I wanna hang a map of the world

Monday travel quote:

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to…

Gnarly networks and website woes

I apologize to anyone who has had difficulty accessing our website over the past 2 days. I couldn’t get to it myself either, and trying to get to the bottom of the problem was like nailing jello to a wall.

Internet webApparently, the problem wasn’t with our website hosting site, or with the connections here. They reported that it was some sort of network issue that was affecting a segment of people…

Ahhh… back to the red rocks

I met our group of adventurous wenches this morning in Phoenix, then we headed up to Cottonwood, where we picnicked beside a lagoon, with big shady trees. It felt like an oasis in the desert!

Next stop was Tuzigoot, the ruins of a town built by the Sinaguans about 1,000 years ago, and mysteriously abandoned 400 years later. Who were these people? And why did they all leave this “oasis” spot…