Welcome to my new series, Summer Suggestions, where I recommend places for you to visit this summer because we can’t! While I’ll offer some ideas about how to get there, what to do, this series isn’t meant to be comprehensive. I just want to write about fun destinations and put some ideas out there for […]
Italy
TBT: My travel obsession began in 90 degree heat (Amalfi Coast)
Throwback Thursdays are a new feature here at asthejoeflies. They are stories from my travel experiences with zero regard to miles and points. Hopefully they inspire you, either to these destinations or beyond!“I really don’t want to travel to multiple destinations for our honeymoon.”In fact, I wasn’t sure I even wanted to go overseas. But […]
How Being Parents Changed the Way We Travel
In the Season 6 finale of How I Met Your Mother (riiiiight around the time the show started dropping off in quality), there is a running gag where Marshall thinks, incorrectly, that he will soon succumb to food poisoning and lose his lunch. The clock ticks down until it hits all naughts, but miraculously he […]
Some Lessons Learned from Travel in Europe
I was talking to some friends about an upcoming trip they have to Europe and got super excited for them. In talking to them, I was kinda flooded with a bunch of memories and experiences that Jess and I have had that I’ve never really written about on the blog. The reality is, I’d say […]
Delta Airbus 330 Business Elite Review – with a baby!
I’m not going to do an in depth trip report of our flight, but I just wanted to give my impressions of Delta’s Business Elite product – the non lie-flat kind. Delta’s fleet of Airbus A330s are leftovers from the Northwest merger, and feature angled recline seating as opposed to the 777s and 767s which […]