The Frequent Traveler's Podcast. The voice of the frequent traveler -- more about the journey than the destination http://travelcommons.com © 2009 Mark Peacock Mark Peacock Travel http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:01 CST Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:01 CST The Frequent Traveler's Podcast. The voice of the frequent traveler -- more about the journey than the destination Mark Peacock Mark Peacock peacock.ma@gmail.com travel, travel podcast, business travel, travel stories, travel industry no http://thepeacocks.net/travelcommons_logo.jpg http://travelcommons.com Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with ODEOSubscribe with Podnova Fear and Loathing of In-flight WiFi, Why I Travel So Much <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BiiDSdKszwXCiKahYJQ8qCwuAuI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BiiDSdKszwXCiKahYJQ8qCwuAuI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BiiDSdKszwXCiKahYJQ8qCwuAuI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/BiiDSdKszwXCiKahYJQ8qCwuAuI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2009/06/24/podcast-75-cant-i-fly-unplugged-how-i-got-here/ Mark Peacock Travel Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:19:01 CST Fear and Loathing of In-flight WiFi, Why I Travel So Much Recorded in the St Louis Airport Marriott courtesy of a blown connection by Southwest. We clean out the TravelCommons mail bag, going through listener comments on disabling in-flight electronics, eating alone, and finding good non-chain food on the road. We talk about the sudden collapse of the CLEAR registered traveler program and if in-flight WiFi will reallyimprove frequent traveler productivity. I also give a little personal history about how I came to travel so much. 26:00 Mark Peacock travel, business travel, travel stories, CLEAR registered traveler, WiFi, Restaurants no no The fourth year anniversary episode of TravelCommons <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-gswX1miACMya1WGIgoa4Hv5Acs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-gswX1miACMya1WGIgoa4Hv5Acs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-gswX1miACMya1WGIgoa4Hv5Acs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-gswX1miACMya1WGIgoa4Hv5Acs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2009/05/14/podcast-74-looking-back-over-four-years-of-travelcommons/ Mark Peacock Travel Thu, 14 May 2009 21:48:01 CST The fourth year anniversary episode of TravelCommons Recorded in the Seattle Marriott Waterfront, this special 4th-year anniversary edition collates the best bits from four years of TravelCommons podcasts. Starting with the "hotel medley" -- the roll call of all the hotels that have served as TravelCommons recording studios, we move on to excerpts from stories about the TSA, Bose headphones, memories of better airplane food, the hassles of travel, and some of the most entertaining sights I've seen in the last four years. 24:54 Mark Peacock travel, business travel, travel stories, anniversary show no no Make Eating Alone Better, More Things You Never Want to Hear When You're Flying <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OM3jg1tA49016hqNqFxfZWTk-M8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OM3jg1tA49016hqNqFxfZWTk-M8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OM3jg1tA49016hqNqFxfZWTk-M8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OM3jg1tA49016hqNqFxfZWTk-M8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2009/04/15/podcast-73-eating-alone-on-the-road-more-things-you-never-want-to-hear/ Mark Peacock Travel Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:03:01 CST Make Eating Alone Better, More Things You Never Want to Hear When You're Flying Recorded somewhere over the Atlantic in the business class toilet of a South African Airways A340 and the Rosebank Hotel in Johannesburg at the start of a week's stay in South Africa. We talk about inconsistent rules for mobile devices on planes, the value of renewing my CLEAR registered traveler membership, the three things that make a restaurant a great place to eat solo, and listener suggestions on the one thing you never want to hear on a flight. 25:27 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, South Africa Airways, iPhone applications, Philadelphia, CLEAR registered traveler, Restaurants no no Consequences of Breaking Travel Rules, Words You Never Want to Hear When You're Flying <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wqFVDmRfCTVen2Nr_ekrWu0rSpo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wqFVDmRfCTVen2Nr_ekrWu0rSpo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wqFVDmRfCTVen2Nr_ekrWu0rSpo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wqFVDmRfCTVen2Nr_ekrWu0rSpo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2009/03/08/podcast-72-breaking-travel-rules-what-you-never-want-to-hear/ Mark Peacock Travel Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:03:01 CST Consequences of Breaking Travel Rules, Words You Never Want to Hear When You're Flying Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago at the end of a full week home, decompressing after 6 weeks of straight travel. We talk about some "travel rules" violators -- the woman whose airport meltdown is a YouTube hit and an Amazing Race couple whose violation got them eliminated. A listener suggests a topic -- what is the one thing you never want to hear on a flight? And we close with a couple of suggestions on how to avoid the growing cacophony of flat screen TVs shouting out the depressing state of the world. 23:13 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, United Airlines, Global Services, Cathay Pacific, Philadelphia, Travel Rules, Amazing Race no no Dragging a Train Thru the Snow, Reviewing Last Year's Travel, Tatty Skies of United <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cnH25z4kRYSJMCcF7Qjud11s1gw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cnH25z4kRYSJMCcF7Qjud11s1gw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cnH25z4kRYSJMCcF7Qjud11s1gw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cnH25z4kRYSJMCcF7Qjud11s1gw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2009/02/08/podcast-71-winter-travel-last-years-travel-tatty-united/ Mark Peacock Travel Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:03:01 CST Dragging a Train Thru the Snow, Reviewing Last Year's Travel, Tatty Skies of United Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago, back doing my thing to support the travel industry with lots of travel in January. We talk about some recent TSA observations, good and bad; my latest spin of the "travel roulette" wheel, trading the plane for a train in an East Coast snow storm; a look back at last year's travel courtesy of Dopplr's Personal Annual Report; and being saved by duct tape while flying the tatty skies of United. 26:03 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, United Airlines, Amtrak, TSA, Philadelphia, Customer Satisfaction, Dopplr no no Challenges Packing a Suit, Can Videoconference Replace Travel Yet, Watching Winter Flight Delays <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fbh0m5v2mrdb47QRuXfwuYjPqYk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fbh0m5v2mrdb47QRuXfwuYjPqYk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fbh0m5v2mrdb47QRuXfwuYjPqYk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fbh0m5v2mrdb47QRuXfwuYjPqYk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2008/12/23/podcast-70-packing-a-suit-videoconference-over-travel-watching-winter-flight-delays/ Mark Peacock Travel Mon, 23 Dec 2008 22:03:01 CST Challenges Packing a Suit, Can Videoconference Replace Travel Yet, Watching Winter Flight Delays Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago after finishing up my travel for the year. But there was a good bit of travel before the year-end, including one of the craziest/stupidest itineraries I've done in a long time -- Chicago-London-Denver in a little more than a day. Many of the subsequent Twitter comments I received asked that perpetual question -- Why travel when you can video conference? Traveling to a business-formal office for the first time in 10 years causes me to investigate different methods in packing a suit. And the December storms that have snarled air traffic across the upper two-thirds of the US have me singing the praises of Flightstats.com 27:10 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, London, British Airways, Packing, Videoconference, Flightstats, Qantas no no Reviewing Travel Assistant Web Sites; Listener Travel Tips <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ew_abZ_CgbKm74ptRE7IN5KRhno/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ew_abZ_CgbKm74ptRE7IN5KRhno/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ew_abZ_CgbKm74ptRE7IN5KRhno/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ew_abZ_CgbKm74ptRE7IN5KRhno/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2008/11/24/podcast-69-pocket-travel-assistant-more-travel-tips/ Mark Peacock Travel Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:03:01 CST Reviewing Travel Assistant Web Sites; Listener Travel Tips Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago at the end of yet another busy travel month -- Philadelphia, Portland, Denver, Northern Virginia -- but am home this week, keeping to one of my cardinal rules of travel -- stay out of any airport Thanksgiving week. In this episode, I talk about a successful experiment of going PC-less on a trip to Portland and give the conclusion to last episode's story about my mother-in-law being stranded by LOT Airlines. We have listener stories on accelerated boarding on international Delta flights and some tidbits of British Airways gossip on the cause of the 777 crash last January and the havoc around the Heathrow Terminal 5 opening. I then give my review of TripChill, one of the new wave of web-based personal travel assistants, and share some travel tips sent in by listeners. 25:24 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, Heathrow, British Airways, BlackBerry, TripChill, Tripit, iPhone no no Road Warrior 201, Leaf Peeping from Above <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1YaWuID082uoy3qpw2H93740Yqo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1YaWuID082uoy3qpw2H93740Yqo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1YaWuID082uoy3qpw2H93740Yqo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1YaWuID082uoy3qpw2H93740Yqo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2008/10/30/podcast-68-advanced-travel-tips-colors-of-autumn/ Mark Peacock Travel Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:03:01 CST Road Warrior 201, Leaf Peeping from Above Recorded in the Philadelphia Marriott after a hectic travel month with two trips to Europe and a bunch of travel up and down the US East Coast. In this episode, I talk about a bit of multi-modal travel -- some planes, trains, and automobile trips. We have a trio of stories about playing "travel roulette" to avoid flight delays, and some listeners offer their favorite iPhone apps. I then share some non-obvious, intermediate-skill travel tips -- a sort of Road Warrior 201-level class and close with some thoughts about enjoying the fall colors from up above. 29:47 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, Heathrow, Philadelphia, fall colors, travel tips, iPhone no no Stories of Thieving Luggage Handlers, Electronic Schadenfreude, a Month's Travels with an iPhone <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q_HByhucbW-3orO-nujxGsPne0Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q_HByhucbW-3orO-nujxGsPne0Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q_HByhucbW-3orO-nujxGsPne0Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Q_HByhucbW-3orO-nujxGsPne0Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2008/09/24/podcast-67-stolen-luggage-month-with-an-iphone/ Mark Peacock Travel Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:48:01 CST Stories of Thieving Luggage Handlers, Electronic Schadenfreude, a Month's Travels with an iPhone Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago after a month of travel to and from the East Coast. In this episode, a spur-of-the-moment train trip bypasses a huge air traffic control problem. A listener story gets us talking about theft after you entrust your luggage to the folks behind the curtain. I have fun saying the word "schadenfreude" -- German for "taking pleasure in other's misfortunes" -- while talking about the need to use iPhones and BlackBerrys to check the status of delayed flights. I also give my thoughs on the iPhone after traveling with it for a month. 25:59 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, Amtrak, Delta Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines, luggage theft, iPhone, Schadenfreude no no Experiences from Trip to Thailand and Singapore; Recent Reports of Laptops Lost in Airports <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wJZT2SUelVUMUy6CEnB7C9CtBOQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wJZT2SUelVUMUy6CEnB7C9CtBOQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wJZT2SUelVUMUy6CEnB7C9CtBOQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wJZT2SUelVUMUy6CEnB7C9CtBOQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travelcommons/2008/08/22/podcast-66-travel-in-asia-losing-laptops-in-airports/ Mark Peacock Travel Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:48:01 CST Experiences from Trip to Thailand and Singapore; Recent Reports of Laptops Lost in Airports Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago after a couple of weeks in Thailand and Singapore. In this episode, I talk about some of my experiences in Asia, including a few travel adventures. We also talk about losing laptops in airports -- comments on a study claiming that 12,000 laptops are lost in airports every week, and thought on one particular lost laptop belonging to the Clear registered traveler program. And a listener gives his in-flight impressions of Singapore Air's new A380. 24:39 Mark Peacock travel podcast, travel, business travel, Clear, durian, Air Asia, Thailand, Singapore, A380, lost laptops no no The first year anniversary episode of TravelCommons <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jgl2_I9_Ui1_XSCxMUvtJRW6rRg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jgl2_I9_Ui1_XSCxMUvtJRW6rRg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jgl2_I9_Ui1_XSCxMUvtJRW6rRg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jgl2_I9_Ui1_XSCxMUvtJRW6rRg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://travelcommons.com/?p=44 Mark Peacock Travel The first year anniversary episode of TravelCommons Recorded in the Courtyard Copley Square in Boston, this special edition pulls the best of the first year of TravelCommons. travel, business travel, travel stories, anniversary show 28:00 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:08:21 -0600 A Taste of TravelCommons - Telling travel stories from hotel bathrooms around the country <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TUu1qCeYyiTRan5vRs7JyKB7bnU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TUu1qCeYyiTRan5vRs7JyKB7bnU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TUu1qCeYyiTRan5vRs7JyKB7bnU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TUu1qCeYyiTRan5vRs7JyKB7bnU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Taste of TravelCommons A Taste of TravelCommons - Travel rants and travel stories recorded in hotel bathrooms around the country http://travelcommons.com 2:30 travel, promo, stories Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:14:44 -0500