Why don't they read the warning signs?

It never ceases to amaze me. No matter how many trips I go on, I always see at least one person completely ignoring warning signs...no matter how obvious they make the warning.

Big red sign, exclamation marks, bold typeface, drawings included. Heck...they might even put warning rope around the area...it never fails that someone will believe they are allowed to ignore the rules.

Case in point...today on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland we took these photos of people ignoring the warning signs...

and, as my husband said, "Why not? I'm sure nothing could go wrong playing in the snow on the unsafe portion of a glacier 10,000 feet in the sky."

I imagine her saying, "But my snow angels look so much better over here where I could die."

I imagine her saying, "See, I look way better on this side of the ropes. You can't see them at all now."

Has anyone else noticed this? I wonder if people do it with police tape. "Ooo - I'm part of the crime scene now."

So now I'll likely make more of an effort to capture them at their idiocy. I'll consider it sort of a social experiment.

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Swiss Miss?

Why do airlines schedule connecting flights for less than an hour apart? I simply don't understand it.

Back in the fall when I booked our trip to Switzerland, I had to choose to have multiple connections. We were redeeming airline miles, so beggars can't be choosers. I booked DFW - CLE with an hour and a half layover, CLE - JFK with a 4.5 hour layover, and JFK - ZRH.

About a month ago, our flight was changed to DFW - PIT - JFK - ZRH with our connection time from DFW - PIT only being 50 minutes.

And, of course, our flight out of Dallas was delayed 30 minutes. Will we make it to PIT on time? If not, we're stuck...there are no PIT to New York flights after ours.

Will this be a Swiss Miss???


Luckily, we made our flight. I now sit in the really nice MasterCard lounge of the JFK airport sucking up the free wifi and sitting in the comfy chair.





The jacka-schmo across from me is a singleton sitting in a seat for two while people around us wait for seats. Not cool.

We barely made our flight. Thanks to the fact that we were in row 9, had little as far as carry-ons, and were seriously just going to the next gate.

I mean it...I took this photo of our PIT-JFK flight loading while we were waiting to unload from our current (DFW-PIT) flight. We could see people loading the entire time we were taxing in. Scary!



And here is a photo from our PIT-JFK flight hoping they will unload our bags...


I can't believe we actually saw these people walk our bags over by hand and load it onto our flight.

Crazy!



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Postcard Humor - Ski Style

We are off to Switzerland this weekend, and I couldn't help but think this Anne Taintor postcard was too perfect...

Who cares if I don't ski.  =)

I Am From the Suitcase - and it starts a blog.

There was an all call to teachers at my school to contribute our own "I Am From" poems for a school poetry book. I whipped one up and shared it with a few friends. 

My amazing friend, Ann Terry, suggested that when I created a book of poetry...I should name it The Baggage Claim.  It sparked an idea to create a blog about my random musings...maybe poetry, maybe observations from my trips, or maybe some product reviews.  

And, even though my poem isn't about a trip, it's a bit about me as a traveler, so I thought I'd share it...http://bit.ly/thesuitcase