Who’s more loyal at choosing travel partners?
These items appeared earlier this week on Jim’s blog: www.thestar.com/ travel.
Yes, we men have our share of philanderers and strays and men with wandering eyes. Tiger Woods, for one. But a new study by Torontobased G Adventures seems to suggest men are more loyal to their spouses than wives when it comes to travel.
In advance of International Happiness Day (it was Wednesday, in case you were in a bad mood and missed it) the company did an online survey of friends, family and partners and found that men suggested their ideal travel partner is their wife.
Women? Ha. No loyalty at all. A majority of the women who responded said they’d rather go on a trip with their friends. As a man, I’m insulted. Yeah, I’m sure you ladies have a great time with your girlfriends. For one, there’s no demands (well, maybe or maybe not) for sex. And presumably nobody waiting at the door of the shop at the outlet mall staring at their watch and tapping their foot as they pass the time. Still, it gives me some degree of pleasure to know that men prefer to take their wives on holidays than to go with their friends. Of course, we all know we’d be hopelessly lost without our wives, as we’re sometimes (sorry, often) reminded.
POOCH TAKES A RIDE
Hendrix, a 6-year-old spaniel, was supposed to be flown last week from New Jersey to Phoenix. But there was a mixup at the airport and the poor pooch was sent on a long ride to Shannon, Ireland. Which isn’t terribly close. The dog was put back on a flight to the U.S. after the error was discovered. He was also given a box of free Milk Bone biscuits and got to watch The Incredible Journey in 3-D for no charge.
U.S. TRAVEL TROUBLE?
A new survey of travelers from abroad found 43 per cent of those heading to the United States say they’d tell other countrymen and women not to visit because of the “cumbersome entry process.”
On a related note, the Statue of Liberty is slated to re-open by the Fourth of July this year, following damage to the statue’s island earlier this year. That’s the good news.. The bad news is that would-be visitors will still be stuck in U.S. Customs.