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Hello World.

I have decided to clean up things and keep them all together so this blog has been moved to wordpress. http://christinaslifeoftravel.wordpress.com I hope that you will follow me there.

I will be adding known readers to my blogroll so that I can show you off too.

Have a great day and see you around.

Christina

Get Your Gluten Free Items Here

Just don't mind the cost

If you follow my other blogs, http://www.nearlythebionicwoman.com or http://whatscookingcincinnati.blogspot.com/ ,
then you know that I have been studying gluten allergies and autism. I also discovered that some people diagnosed with SLE have also been found to have an allergy to gluten. So, what better research than to try than to avoid gluten for the recommended 8 weeks. OK, well, it hasn't worked out too well so far. I did good for the first 2-3 days but broke down and baked a pizza like sandwich as soon as I got home. It was around 7:30 pm and I was really, really hungry and bread deprived. Believe it or not, it wasn't all that I had imagined it to be. I started again the very next day and except for the small piece of pizza again on Sunday night (again because I was starving) and a pack of Biscoff cookies on the plane topped with organic peanut butter, I am doing OK. Is there such a thing as a somewhat free gluten diet?

I did find that in the more organic and healthy little shops that are popping up in some airports that I can find some better choices and even some gluten free specific items. That is, if you don't mind paying for them. The Euro Cafe at the JFK airport in New York City had some great choices and the total including the Wildlife Dark Chocolate bad that I chose rang up to only $25! This total included, sushi, fresh edame, an Odwalla juice and a dark chocolate bar. With this, I had breakfast (I ate a pack of peanuts on the plane), lunch and a snack. Plus, the chocolate bar lasted a few days. I eat one to two squares a day for the antioxidants.

I have also shopped at Camden's Food Co. in the Raleigh Durham, NC airport. They have a wide variety of choices there. Not a lot of gluten free options though and I wound up going for a hummus and veggie spinach wrap. There was a bag of some veggie chips that claimed to be gluten free however, there were a few servings in a bag and I'm not one for stopping at one serving. At over $3 a bag, I just took my wrap and went. I was very interested in the chocolate brownie bar that claimed to have 50% of the dairy allowance of fiber! Woo Hoo. I told the guy "Hey look, you serve poopin' bars!" I think I made his day because he laughed and said thanks.

So, which is better, to pay less and bring it myself trying to keep everything cold for days or just pay a little more and get it there? I need some ideas that travel well. hint hint...

WWW dot EASYJET dot COM

Hello world.

As I have mentioned, my step daughter is going to Italy this summer for school. We would all like to go somewhere else other that just Rome and she has found a great way! Have you ever heard of EasyJet? I had not but if you look it up you will see that the fares are insanely cheap. I found a flight from Milan to Rome for $19.46EU one way. The train is a lot more expensive.

Definitely something that I will have to look into. Yippy!

Happy Mother's Day

I got to stay home with my family today. Happy Mother's Day to all of those wonderful mother's even if you didn't get to spend it with them.

Delta and NWA Travel Update ***TIP***

Hello World!

I wanted to give everyone a little info on what to do if you are traveling on a NW flight.

Yesterday on my flight from JFK to MSP (Minneapolis), there were quite a few upset passengers. Apparently, their tickets showed that they were flying on a NWA flight. So, they went to terminal 4 where NWA is located. The problem is that COMAIR (Delta Airlines) is now servicing these flights since NWA is now Delta. The one's that left enough time to get themselves to the airport were simply inconvenienced. The ones who did not, were inconvenienced and exhausted by then having to run to terminal 3.

While I realize that this is an inconveniece to everyone, including the employees, I still feel bad that these passengers were not notified ahead of time. I hate to see my passengers upset for unnecessary reasons. This is not however a good reason to take it out on your flight attendants, who are simply trying to make your flight the best that they can!

Please be patient with the companies while they merge everything as quickly as possible and check in advance if you are flying on the original Delta or the soon to be Delta flights.

TIP: If you are flying on a NWA flight, call ahead to see who is servicing the flight so that you know what terminal to go to.

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