Comments on: Working mom business travel at its worst?

By: J. Fergie

J. Fergie — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:45:15 +0000

well, I love visitng all places so this was a tough one to answer…I’d have to say one of the
(many) trips that I took to NYC while I was still working at the law firm. I normally LOVE NYC
and they put me up in a posh hotel in Times Square and everything. But I remember that this
particular trip was the first business trip away from my daughter and all I wanted to do was
Go.Home. I was truly miserable and New York never felt so noisy and dirty and crowded and
impersonal to me.

We ended up taking my daughter to NY during the holiday season later that year and it was just
great. Funny how such a (literally) small thing can change your entire perspective!!

By: Pepsi in a Coke town, or why boring hotels are ok by me » Self-Made Mom

Pepsi in a Coke town, or why boring hotels are ok by me » Self-Made Mom — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:42:44 +0000

[...] Well, I’m sitting at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta AirportÂ (why are airport names so damn long!?) after the longest day of meetings, ever (no seriously I’ve been up since 5 am Eastern) waiting to go back home.Â Anyway, my trip down south has been nice.Â Flight was on time on the way there, I got an aisle seat, and a coworker had me booked me at a local Embassy Suites.Â After my foray into boutique hotels in Los Angeles, I welcomed the safe hotel choice.Â I mean, what could go wrong? [...]

By: Out of the Bloffice » Self-Made Mom

Out of the Bloffice » Self-Made Mom — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:49:26 +0000

[...] I’m currently out of the bloffice doing really really important things.Â I’ll get back to you if when I return.Â In the meantime,Â if you need anything urgent, please don’t call me or write.Â Â I probably won’t call or writeÂ you back, even if IÂ have time to kill before my flight home.Â Â AndÂ I’m not botheringÂ putting my assistant’s name on my out ofÂ bloffice reply.Â She probably doesn’t want to hear from you either.Â Thanks, and have a terrific, awesome, splendidly-wonderful day!! [...]

By: Marketing Mommy

Marketing Mommy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:41:19 +0000

Lest all of you think I was denigrating the culinary options down South, I should emphasize that something of a Southern girl myself (from Virginia) and the best food I’ve ever eaten was on a BBQ-focused road trip my husband and I took through Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee.

But along Highway 127 around Chattanooga? It seemed like all my icky coworker/supposed baby daddy and I could find was one greasy spoon after the next. The food in Chattanooga was pretty great, though.

By: selfmademom

selfmademom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:07:09 +0000

Thank you all for the tips! I’ve never had sweet tea…

By: RootsinGeorgia

RootsinGeorgia — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:56:36 +0000

Okay. This is kinda sad. Part of me wants to be indignant, since I was ‘born n’bred’ in Georgia. Of course, for the last twenty years I’ve been in L.A. or D.C. or London – so the other part of me completely understands your concerns. I’m back in the south now. And its a whole new thing. You have to relax into it, thats all I can say. And I definitely understand Marketing Mommy’s experience — it’s still quite conservative and I can just see all the nice (pronounced nahs) people thinkin’ the man she was travelin’ with was the baby daddy. But anyway…if you are in Dalton, here are a few things to do. Go to the Oakwood Cafe in downtown Dalton for some real Southern food. Its not fancy…but if you like ‘home cookin’ its yummy. Yes…sweet tea…fried green tomatoes…and lots of things that ya’ll yankees eat, too. And if you are a wine lover, make sure you check out Planet of the Grapes, a great little wine bar, also downtown. They have great wines by the glass – and you can have food delivered there from other downtown spots. The Depot is nice for lunch. Chelsea’s tearoom on Thornton Ave is nice for lunch or tea. Ya’ll come back now, ya’hear?

By: Busy Mom

Busy Mom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:06:21 +0000

OK, I’ll concede you Gastonia. We do have real live cities ’round these parts. Is sweet tea really that unusual? Just wondering.

By: selfmademom

selfmademom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:01:19 +0000

This is hilarious. I can’t wait to try hush puppies!

By: foodmomiac

foodmomiac — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:13:44 +0000

LOL Busy Mom. My biggest problem with Gastonia was the lack of activities – not the southernness. I did really love the hush puppies, sweet tea and boiled peanuts.

By: Busy Mom

Busy Mom — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:58:20 +0000

Ya’ll? It’s not that bad. We wear shoes and have restaurants and stuff. Possibly not at any of the sites of the Yard Sale extravaganza, but, still…