#travellikeabause

Twelve hours, two flights, one train, and a puddle jumper.

Twelve hours. Two flights. One train. And a puddle jumper of dubious provenance.

#travellikeabause #botg #bootsontheground #adventuretravel #jungletrek #comingsoon #tiberiusblackstone

Nine hours in Doha. He calls it the best part of the trip.

Nine hours in Doha. Most travelers call that a problem; Tiberius calls it the best part of the trip. Hamad International, the Business Class lounge, a Marriott Marquis bed in the middle of it, and a mimosa at the end. It's all about the points.

#doha #qatar #layover #businessclass #hamadinternational #marriottmarquis #travellikeabause #tiberiusblackstone

The delay between you and this is a phone call.

A captain, a chef, a crew, and a route that gets planned over breakfast. Split among six, a charter week in the BVI runs about what a good hotel does... and the delay between you and this is a phone call.

#yachtcharter #bvi #sailing #luxurytravel #chartered #maxwellsterling #travellikeabause

He got four words into the verdict.

Some hunts you don't go alone.

#TravelBause #BossHog #WhistlePig #RyeWhiskey #TheBygone #Baltimore #HarborEast #WhiskeyTok #MaxwellSterling #TravelLikeABause

Does money taste?

Does money taste? Ep. 3 of The Boss Hog Hunt goes back to where it started: Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. Twenty-seven hundred bottles on the wall, rolling ladders to reach them, and one experiment almost no room on earth will allow: a flight of three twenty-dollar pours lined up against the hundred-fifty-dollar pig. Boss Hog XII, Feather and Flame, comes down from the top shelf one more time. The flight verdict lives in the Field Brief on the app. The room verdict comes now: Distinguished, 8.42. Boss Hog XI... check. XII... found twice. Eleven to go. The hunt continues.

#bosshog #whistlepig #ryewhiskey #whiskeytok #jackrose #adamsmorgan #washingtondc #dcwhiskey #travellikeabause #tiberiusblackstone

Two faces of Dubai. Only one tells the truth.

Dubai argues with itself, and both sides win. On one face, the Burj Al Arab: a sail of gold above the Gulf, luxury as theater, every arrival a production. On the other, the Armani Hotel Downtown: luxury with its voice lowered, all line and shadow at the foot of the world's tallest tower. Same city, two philosophies of the extraordinary. I went to see which one tells the truth.

#TravelBause #Dubai #BurjAlArab #ArmaniHotel #TwoFacesOfDubai #LuxuryTravel #DowntownDubai #RareByDesign #TravelLikeABause

Two travelers, one departure board. Only one of them is winning.

Two travelers, one departure board. The flight out of Doha slipped two hours, then five, then it was gone. At the gate a long night was just beginning. In the lounge mine was quietly getting better. When the airline offered two complimentary hotels, I did not pick between them; I asked Copernicus one question, and the answer sent me to a 32nd-floor suite over a city that does not stop glittering. Coffee and dessert on room service. Breakfast on the 50th floor. A pool by eight in the morning, already ninety-nine degrees. The delay was never the story. What you do with it is. Travel like a Bause.

Continue reading →

#Doha #Qatar #MarriottMarquis #BusinessLounge #LayoverDoneRight #TravelBause #TheConnoisseursStandard #RareByDesign #WestBay #TravelLikeABause

The egg toast is the tell.

The egg toast is the tell. It arrives crowned with caviar and herbs, a Bulgarian Golden Ossetra that, according to the kitchen, is reserved for this restaurant and not sold to the public. The yolk, per the reporting, sits at the seam between set and molten: neither too liquid nor overcooked. That margin of control is what separates a great room from a merely expensive one.

Continue reading →

#JeanGeorges #JeanGeorgesVongerichten #NYCFineDining #ThreeMichelinStars #MichelinStar #GoldenOssetra #CaviarService #NewYorkRestaurants #TravelBause #TravelLikeABause

No pig... no Boss Hog.

The hunt for the elusive Boss Hog begins — WhistlePig's once-a-year, single-barrel unicorn, crowned with a pewter pig that changes every edition. First stop: The Southern Gentleman, Buckhead. Edition XI, the Juggernaut — Thandai barrels, 104.8 proof. A stranger at the bar asked the right question. The verdict? On the app. Travel like a Bause.

#bosshog #whistlepig #ryewhiskey #whiskeytok #buckhead #atlanta #travellikeabause #tiberiusblackstone #thesoutherngentleman

The verdict on D.C.'s best Cubano?

The hunt for the world's finest Cubano rolls on — this stop, Cuba Libre in D.C.'s Penn Quarter. A neighborhood the boom revived... and the Chinatown it priced out. Tiberius has his verdict. You'll have to catch it on the app. Travel like a Bause.

#cubano #cubansandwich #washingtondc #pennquarter #travellikeabause #tiberiusblackstone #cubalibre #chinatown #foodie