One Year in Review

The LaBelleValise blog is now one year old.  This blog started as a travel log on all the places work, life, and wanderlust takes me and over the past year the adventure has been better than I hoped. Here are a few of the highlights Istanbul, Turkey Chester, UK Chicago, Illinois New York, New York

Airport Aerobics

I just saw a woman doing calisthenics in the main hallway of the airport. While I admire her passion for fitness (and her glutes) I have to ask really? Then I wonder, is this what I will eventually come to … burrito in one hand 5lb. weight in the other?

Eavesdropping in the Club Lounge

It’s January in Utah which means something very definite in the airport Club Lounge: Sundance. I’m surrounded by the rampant douchebaggery that is profitable indie filmmaking and delightful phrases surround me: “You’re a giant and you’re surrounded by pygmies.” “Daddy!” (Giggled by a twenty-four year old snuggled into the lap of her sixty year old

Airport Etiquette

Having flown extensively, all over the world, for business and pleasure, as a professional flight attendant, an eager spring breaker, and a harried mother traveling alone with two young children, I have developed a very definite opinion as to the most efficient way to navigate the bizarre social interaction that is The Airport. But, some