A rant on traveling!

[Brandi]

I just got back from another work trip. I was in Montana. It was very nice there. The people are very nice in that city. The client was wonderful! The hotel was... not great but i only had to stay there 6 days. The cleaning lady was not very good. And this is where my rant starts!
The things I hate about traveling!
#1. A hotel that does not clean they'er room very well.
#2. not having a clean blanket on the bed. (Oh my gosh i don't want to say what was on the blanket, it was that bad!)
#3. Public toilets! How do these women do these things to the bathrooms?! I don't understand it. I hate, hate, hate public bathrooms! It is enough to make me want to find a real 9-5 job instead of sand sculpting. (www.sandscapes.com.)
Almost everything else that comes along with traveling I have learned to deal with.
Oh wait!
#4. really smelly people who sit next to you on a plane! That's a fun one!
Oh I should say normally if the hotel was that bad i would move and even make the client move us but... it was a Harely Davidson Rally so there were no vacancy's any place!
The bottom line... The # one thing i have learned in all my years of traveling for work? gotta go with the flow and don't bring anything of Value with you! Oh and always check the glove box of your rental car befor you drop it off. My husband left he's $$$$$ mp3 player in one last month and we never got it back.
Boy it is good to be home for a bit!

[velogirl]

I always bring a candle with me when I travel -- usually vanilla or lavendar. I find it very calming, gets the stink out of the room, and helps me forget how disgusting everything else is.

[Triskeliongirl]

I bring a silk sleeping sack, something I learned from bicycle touring, it can clean up any bed instantly! I also bring my favorite perfume, so at least I can smell nice!

[Kano]

Brandi, if it's any consolation, my daughter has had to clean public restrooms, and she says guys are worse!

Karen in Boise

[Brandi]

I don't even want to know what a guys restroom looks like!
Things of comfort I bring with me are things like compfy pj's, my own pillow,bubble bath, eye mask and ear plugs are a must!and I also bring a candle for compfort reason. Oh and my dh!

[Selkie]

You should have demanded a new blanket, Brandi. Having to travel for work makes you appreciate home so much more. I went on several trips to Eastern Europe in the early 90s and can tell you some stories about disgusting accommodations.

I once flew back from Frankfurt and someone in front of me had the worst gas I've ever encountered. Ironically, I was in business class, in the upstairs of the airplane (the best place to sit), but this ignorant jerk kept wafting these eye burning, killer f*rts. Seriously, they were so bad that me and my traveling companion were nauseated. It went on the whole flight---Frankfurt to DC.

[Brandi]

You should have demanded a new blanket, Brandi. Having to travel for work makes you appreciate home so much more. I went on several trips to Eastern Europe in the early 90s and can tell you some stories about disgusting accommodations.

I once flew back from Frankfurt and someone in front of me had the worst gas I've ever encountered. Ironically, I was in business class, in the upstairs of the airplane (the best place to sit), but this ignorant jerk kept wafting these eye burning, killer f*rts. Seriously, they were so bad that me and my traveling companion were nauseated. It went on the whole flight---Frankfurt to DC.

I am sorry but your story made me giggle! I have had the same experience but it was my husband who had the bad gas! And I switched blankets, there was another bed in the room. I would have slept in that bed but the angle of the tv was better with the other bed.

[RoadRaven]

!!!ROTFLMFAO!!!

Did you know that in New Zealand slang, a sleeping bag is called a fart-sack???

[Selkie]

!!!ROTFLMFAO!!!

Did you know that in New Zealand slang, a sleeping bag is called a fart-sack???

That's what my dad used to call my oldest brother's bed (as in "get out of that fartsack and clean the garage")