{"id":50,"date":"2009-01-29T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T02:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-12-06T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:30:35","slug":"airline-travel-carryon-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/01\/airline-travel-carryon-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Travel &#8211; Carryon Only!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently took a long weekend vacation trip from Chicago to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.\u00a0 (Yes, in part to escape the Chicago winter for a short while.)\u00a0 We had an experience that proved yet again the validity of the advice to avoid checking bags if at all possible.\u00a0 One of the podcasts I listen to (Manager-Tools, find them in the blogroll) goes so far as to say <strong>never<\/strong> check bags on business travel.\u00a0 They&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>Our flight left Chicago on time, and arrived at Houston Hobby a bit early.\u00a0 I got off the plane, found the flight listings, and discovered that our connecting flight in an hour had been cancelled.\u00a0 But the earlier flight was still boarding!\u00a0 Could we make it?<\/p>\n<p>The gate was in sight, so we trotted on over pulling our rollaboard bags after us, and asked the attendant taking boarding passes.\u00a0 He directed us to another gate with an agent at the desk.\u00a0 Trot, trot, trot&#8230; and there&#8217;s a woman there doing the same boarding pass trade we want to do, and worrying about whether her bags will make it with her.<\/p>\n<p>She finished and we traded boarding passes in for the new flight.\u00a0 Trot, trot, trot back to the gate, hand over the still warm boarding passes, and on down the jetway we went.\u00a0 Total elapsed time in the terminal, less than 6 minutes.\u00a0 And no worries about our bags getting to the airport with us, because we had them in hand all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Next question: can I possibly do a two week mixed business and vacation trip to a foreign country, with only a rollaboard bag and laptop case?\u00a0 Stay tuned to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently took a long weekend vacation trip from Chicago to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.\u00a0 (Yes, in part to escape the Chicago winter for a short while.)\u00a0 We had an experience that proved yet again the validity of the advice to avoid checking bags if at all possible.\u00a0 One of the podcasts I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}