Scott Laird - Travel Journalist
@abfabskylife.bsky.social
Travel Writer Condé Nast Traveler, Fodors, TravelPulse, Travel Age West. Alaska/Hawai‘i Origin. Yes, I’m really 6’9”
This episode of Celebrity Deathmatch is unreal.
a bald man is standing in front of a microphone and holding a baton .
ALT: a bald man is standing in front of a microphone and holding a baton .
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June 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This episode of Celebrity Deathmatch is unreal.
What I wouldn’t give to see Christina Ricci star in a Tudor England costume drama.
May 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What I wouldn’t give to see Christina Ricci star in a Tudor England costume drama.
Overhearing an order from someone who has clearly never been to a coffee bar before:
“Hi, do you have green tea… Cappuccino? I’ll have a chai… latte… with a shot of espresso.”
“Hi, do you have green tea… Cappuccino? I’ll have a chai… latte… with a shot of espresso.”
May 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Overhearing an order from someone who has clearly never been to a coffee bar before:
“Hi, do you have green tea… Cappuccino? I’ll have a chai… latte… with a shot of espresso.”
“Hi, do you have green tea… Cappuccino? I’ll have a chai… latte… with a shot of espresso.”
Not me in the Space Needle gift shop wondering how often these souvenir Space Needles need to be, erm, removed from people in the ER.
May 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not me in the Space Needle gift shop wondering how often these souvenir Space Needles need to be, erm, removed from people in the ER.
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Can we just fix the airports and work on planes crashing?
May 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Can we just fix the airports and work on planes crashing?
If only packing and unpacking burned more calories.
May 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If only packing and unpacking burned more calories.
Today I’m channeling Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love:
1. Show up
2. Do Queen shit for six and a half minutes
3. Win award
1. Show up
2. Do Queen shit for six and a half minutes
3. Win award
May 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today I’m channeling Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love:
1. Show up
2. Do Queen shit for six and a half minutes
3. Win award
1. Show up
2. Do Queen shit for six and a half minutes
3. Win award
“Sir, I hope you’re good at filing insurance claims because you have flooded my basement.”
May 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Sir, I hope you’re good at filing insurance claims because you have flooded my basement.”
Lion dance at DFW for Cathay’s Pacific’d inaugural nonstop to Hong Kong.
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Lion dance at DFW for Cathay’s Pacific’d inaugural nonstop to Hong Kong.
Guy held up boarding finding someone to swap seats to sit next to his wife on a 17 minute flight. Some people are so delightful.
April 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Guy held up boarding finding someone to swap seats to sit next to his wife on a 17 minute flight. Some people are so delightful.
World class proofreading there, @hawaiianairlines.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
World class proofreading there, @hawaiianairlines.bsky.social
We used to have so many milk crates. They were so handy. Now it’s been years since I’ve seen one.
April 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We used to have so many milk crates. They were so handy. Now it’s been years since I’ve seen one.
I love the word “overserved” because it allows me to disavow any accountability for my situation.
I didn’t *have* too much alcohol, I was *given* too much alcohol.
I didn’t *have* too much alcohol, I was *given* too much alcohol.
March 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I love the word “overserved” because it allows me to disavow any accountability for my situation.
I didn’t *have* too much alcohol, I was *given* too much alcohol.
I didn’t *have* too much alcohol, I was *given* too much alcohol.
I won’t be satisfied until I see Rachel Brosnahan and Claire Foy star together in a sister caper.
March 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I won’t be satisfied until I see Rachel Brosnahan and Claire Foy star together in a sister caper.
The guy selling coffee at Casablanca Airport speaks English but I’m rather tickled he looked at me and decided I spoke French.
March 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The guy selling coffee at Casablanca Airport speaks English but I’m rather tickled he looked at me and decided I spoke French.
Are legal obstacles to discriminating against transgender people really the biggest problem faced by Iowans right now?
February 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Are legal obstacles to discriminating against transgender people really the biggest problem faced by Iowans right now?
I kind of love how in Puerto Vallarta,nestled between the bars and restaurants and pharmacies and resorts and nightclubs on the coastal route, there’s an Office Depot.
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I kind of love how in Puerto Vallarta,nestled between the bars and restaurants and pharmacies and resorts and nightclubs on the coastal route, there’s an Office Depot.
Nothing makes me feel more like an Elder Millennial than how close I come to perishing trying to crawl out of a booth at Outback Steakhouse.
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Nothing makes me feel more like an Elder Millennial than how close I come to perishing trying to crawl out of a booth at Outback Steakhouse.
I’ve always said You’ve Got Mail and Mrs. Doubtfire are just about two women’s wildly different responses to finding out they’re being catfished.
a woman in a black dress and earrings is asking the whole time .
ALT: a woman in a black dress and earrings is asking the whole time .
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February 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’ve always said You’ve Got Mail and Mrs. Doubtfire are just about two women’s wildly different responses to finding out they’re being catfished.
Hottest movie ending ever. Oh, to be rescued from a tedious job by a man in uniform. youtu.be/8kF-qzhNxEk?...
Final scene from "An Officer and a Gentleman (1981)"
YouTube video by MARCOS EC
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February 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hottest movie ending ever. Oh, to be rescued from a tedious job by a man in uniform. youtu.be/8kF-qzhNxEk?...
Don’t know what it is that causes people to immediately exaggerate when a flight is delayed.
Overheard a woman at the ticket counter exclaim, “Our flight is now delayed THREE HOURS.”
Refreshed my app - it’s two hours.
Overheard a woman at the ticket counter exclaim, “Our flight is now delayed THREE HOURS.”
Refreshed my app - it’s two hours.
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Don’t know what it is that causes people to immediately exaggerate when a flight is delayed.
Overheard a woman at the ticket counter exclaim, “Our flight is now delayed THREE HOURS.”
Refreshed my app - it’s two hours.
Overheard a woman at the ticket counter exclaim, “Our flight is now delayed THREE HOURS.”
Refreshed my app - it’s two hours.
Next table has this tedious woman who keeps throwing out LinkedIn Therapy phrases like “are you imagining success for yourself?”
She eventually started noticing my eye rolls and finally asked, “is something the matter?”
Me: “No, this is just the face I make when I’m ‘imagining success’.”
🍸
She eventually started noticing my eye rolls and finally asked, “is something the matter?”
Me: “No, this is just the face I make when I’m ‘imagining success’.”
🍸
February 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Next table has this tedious woman who keeps throwing out LinkedIn Therapy phrases like “are you imagining success for yourself?”
She eventually started noticing my eye rolls and finally asked, “is something the matter?”
Me: “No, this is just the face I make when I’m ‘imagining success’.”
🍸
She eventually started noticing my eye rolls and finally asked, “is something the matter?”
Me: “No, this is just the face I make when I’m ‘imagining success’.”
🍸
Caterers didn’t provision a snack basket for F. AA just batting a thousand today.
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Caterers didn’t provision a snack basket for F. AA just batting a thousand today.
AA CSA: “We just got an update, our FAs will be here shortly, maybe 35-45 minutes.”
Um, departure time is now, that’s not “shortly”.
Um, departure time is now, that’s not “shortly”.
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
AA CSA: “We just got an update, our FAs will be here shortly, maybe 35-45 minutes.”
Um, departure time is now, that’s not “shortly”.
Um, departure time is now, that’s not “shortly”.