My ‘home’ airport is technically Ontario International in California (located near Corona, CA) but for the past 3 years I’ve been in and out of Chicago O’Hare so frequently that it is starting to feel like home as well. While not my all-time favorite airport (for such a large place their security screening lines are totally inadequate) it is definitely one of the better thought out airports around.
Parking is wonderful if you’re planning on picking up or dropping someone off. The whole airport is arranged in this sort of horseshoe pattern with spikes coming off of it. In the center of the horseshoe there is a hotel and a large short-term parking structure. When it’s cold and windy outside, being able to park a few yards from an elevator that takes you to a heated underground tunnel and then to your heated terminal is very, very nice when you’re picking someone up. Also, the terminals being arranged in this way with the spikes coming off of them (see the picture below) means that no matter where your check-in is, it is likely that you won’t have to walk too far.
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My husband and I have very different packing styles, although we manage to stay out of eachother’s way when preparing for a trip. My mother, on the other hand goes crazy and is packed completely a week or more before she goes anywhere and wants everyone else to be as well. Both of them pack far ahead of time, which makes me crazy as I don’t have enough clothing to do that. What is your packing style? Let us know this week by voting in the poll and I’ll post the results next week….
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So I think we here at Start-Go need a book club. Oprah has one and we’re at LEAST as cool as she is! Even if we aren’t self-made billionaires (yet). Since I’m a founding member, I get to choose this month’s book but in future months I expect that each of you will submit books you find that are interesting and stimulating. This month we’ll be reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I usually resist trade paperback bestsellers when they first come out in order to see if they will stick. This one has and since it’s been recommended to me at LEAST 5 times, not counting Amazon.com and Facebook Bookshelf recommendations where it comes up every time I log on, I think it is time to tackle this book. Then, of course, after I wrote this post and decided that it would be December’s book OPRAH goes and steals it!!! What’s up with that?!!! In January we’ll open it up for a discussion, complete with question/answer time and I’ll see if I can get someone at the publishing house to come guest blog. Until then, go to your library, check it out, and READ!!! If you have already read the book, make sure to hold your tongue about the ending until our JANUARY posting, but feel free to shout out encouragement…
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I wrote an article this week for AboutMyPlanet.com on the cherry blossom trees in Japan. It got me dreaming about the festival that is held every spring in Japan and how much I would love to go see the pink streets of Tokyo or Kyoto the first week of April. Two of my friends, one from High School in Redlands and a roommate from San Jose State, live and work in Japan and I’d love to go over there sometime soon and see them. I think that the cherry blossom festival time would be just about perfect…
Yorko and I met in San Jose, where we were roommates during my freshman year of college. We would probably have remained just roommates until I went a little crazy (it was a boy’s fault) and made her shave my head. I still remember her cutting my hair off with her Japanese scissors, which were shaped like American safety scissors, and how she kept thinking she misunderstood my English when I told her to take it all off. After something like that, well, you just become fast friends More »
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Ask any family of 4 and you’ll probably find that one of their largest regular expenditures is the weekly trip to the grocery store. Most people (who aren’t single) swear that they can’t get out of the grocery store for less than $100 each week. I’m here to tell you that this just isn’t necessary! There are many ways that you can cut your monthly grocery bill drastically, without cutting the style of eating or amount that you eat each week. If you currently spend $100 a week or $400 a month feeding your family, you might consider taking the challenge to cut that in half. I did so about a year ago when my husband and I started trying to pay off all our debit. Saving $200 a month was GREAT! Frankly it also made grocery shopping more fun because, for me, it became a game to try and get the most out of my grocery budget for the least amount of money. My goal for 2008 is to cut it in half again to only $100 a month for the two of us. Here are my tried and true secrets to cutting my bill: More »
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