So I got on the plane...

I left off with the fact that after I finally found an outlet to charge my laptop...we had to board the plane...now I did neglect to tell you that this was AFTER the plane was delayed for about an hr for mechanical checks (and yes, I am QUITE OK with delaying a flight for mechanical checks!)

You see, I was heading to Reno...a place I've never been, en route to Lake Tahoe for the weekend...another place I've never been.  I need to insert here that I LOVE traveling to new places!!!

Lake Tahoe was just LOVELY...wow, I haven't used that word in a while....LOVELY...{sigh}...

Anyway, we stayed at a casino on the edge of Nevada and California...not my favorite choice, cause ya know, I don't smoke...and well...casinos just REEK of smoke!  But.....my hubbie was traveling for business and you know what that means, right????  The hubbie's business was paying the tab, so I'm not "complaining" about the casino and smoke...I'm just "saying"...

Tahoe was LOVELY...yeah, I'm really stuck on that word for now...drove to the Emerald Bay lookout point called Inspiration Point...which certainly IS inspirational...if you don't mind listening to a paranoid driver (yes, that's the hubbie) as he frets over falling off the side of the road since there are next to no guardrails...while I'm (heehee) have a BLAST at the fact that there are no guardrails...

FYI, the hubbie doesn't like the "no guardrail" issue, nor does he like heights...so literally BACKED up to the railing for this foto...gotta love him:)

Getting ready for a Europe trip...and I'm SURE I'll have many altered travel experiences to share later:)

My Altered Travels

"My Altered Travels" is officially born after many years of conteplation (is that even a word, lol?)...I

My goal with this blog is to inspire, educate, enrich, humor, and most of all...COMMUNICATE and ENHANCE your travel experiences.  I wanted to use the blog name "havebagswilltravel" but that blog name was already taken...I REALLY need to visit that blog:)

Since my travels are ALWAYS ALTERED, mostly because I am an altered artist AND because I'm blonde (heehee), I thought it might be fun to give you my ALTERED take on traveling...

Today, I'm sitting in an airport waiting for a flight to Reno while en route to Lake Tahoe for the first time.  It's Thursday, and while I started out taking a vacation day tomorrow, I found that my hubbie has a golf outing tomorrow morning...so what's an altered girl to do????

So I pack my computer, find that I have some work that NEEDS to be done for my day job, and I say...hey, if I "work" while I'm away, can I NOT count my day off as a vacation day?...now I know many of us (including my husband) can work from "anywhere", but I'm just not in that category...I have a "regular" 9 to 5 type job that requires me to work in a traditional office...but in my "altered" world, I can work with this...so I say to my boss, if I "work" on this project while my husband is at a golf outing tomorrow, can we consider this "working" remotely, so I don't have to use a vacation day?  Wahoo, my boss says "I can work with that"...

Now I know that many of you think this is WAYYYYYY old school, but just run with me on this, 'k?

So, I'm still sitting in the airport on a Thursday afternoon, an realize that my computer is NOT charged...(o.k., feel free to start with the blonde jokes now...or fess up and admit this has happened to you, too:)

So I "plug in" and start to work on my NEW blog...and now it's time to power down and board...more later...I promise:)