Having lived in such glam locales as Paris, St. Moritz, New York, and Los Angeles, this week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has crafted a living writing about food, wine, art, fashion, home design, and, of course, travel: Colette O’Connor. 
Her current gig entails editing a lifestyle magazine for owners of private aircraft: Flying Adventures.
What advice can you offer women with itchy feet?
Pack nothing. Or next to. My best trip ever was the 10 days I spent in Paris after Delta sent my luggage via the Bermuda Triangle. A tiny tube of carry-on toothpaste and a mini jar of face cream that Homeland Security cleared saw me through – beautifully. And wearing the same thing every day – doing washables each night in the sink – taught me the truth about travel: most everything you think you need you don’t. And being stripped of all that stuff you can’t live without is wildly thrilling. I am free! you feel. And, really, we end up wearing the same thing every day anyway, right? Of course, you’ll want your derring-do along, as well as your willingness to go with the flow, your passport and, just in case, a credit card not already over the top with charges. But leave the hot rollers (especially!) at home. Also, a skirt is best. Jeans may be the obvious, most comfortable costume de voyage, but no: from plane and train and public bathrooms (where pants drag in we don’t even want to know what) to the people of foreign cities (who treat you Read the rest of this entry »
