Labor Day ended early for me. My flight to Mexico City leaves tomorrow at 7:00 am from LAX so my choice was to wake up at 2:00 am to drive there, or do a hotel tonight and lose part of my day off. 2:00 am sounded gross so here I am, at the Hilton Garden Inn, blogging and doing homework. Even so, I have to get up at 3:45 am to get my car into the car park and then be at the International Terminal by 5:00 am. This is the unpleasant part about business travel. I'm always getting up at ridiculous hours of the night to catch a flight. Oh well, I have to think of the rewards of free vacation travel! That's pretty much what keeps me going.
Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right, ...
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