Here’s are some of our favorite travel-related items that arrived in the Stuck at the Airport mailbox this week. Happy to have more….
Our very own KLM special edition miniature Delft building
A few weeks back, KLM celebrated 80 years of flying between Amsterdam and New York City with the reveal of a limited-edition miniature Delft Blue house portraying The New York Historical, New York’s first museum.
This special limited-edition miniature house is bigger than the ones KLM reveals on its birthday each October 7 and is already quite the sought-after collectible.
We couldn’t be in New York for the big reveal. But we were delighted when a box containing one of these linited-edition minature museum buildings showed up in our mailbox.
Thanks, KLM!
At PDX Airport: buy a cocktail & take one with you for later
We met the folks at Straightaway Cocktails a few months back when we attended a 7-course meal highlighting the history of airline meals at Portland International Airport (PDX).
We learned that Straightaway had a kiosk at PDX and that they were planning to open a bar and restaurant ‘soon.’
Last week (coincidentally around the Stuck at The Airport’s cocktail-reviewer’s birthday) a box of goodies showed up at Stuck at The Airport.com headquarters to announce the news that on June 22, 2026 Straightaway will be expanding its PDX presence from a kiosk to a full airport bar and restaurant.
The 1,000-square-foot, 32-seat bar, will be in the B Gates and will draw inspiration from the golden age of travel with green-textured banquette seating, wavy wood walls and a dark blue bar.
Guests will be able to nibble on fresh Italian-inspired meals by Sebastiano’s, a local Italian bakery and deli. The sips will feature Straightaway Cocktail’s classic creations as well as an airport-only Bloody Mary and a new Roma Spritz, made in collaboration with Alaska Airlines.
Here’s the bonus twist: the venue will also sell the full range of Straightaway products, so passengers will be able to enjoy a cocktail on-site and take that same cocktail with them in 4-packs and bottles. The PDX location will also feature grab-and-go food items and an assortment of curated barware and apparel.
Is it outrageous that we’re planning a flight to PDX just to visit Straightaway Cocktail’s new venue?
Lint: OK on spacesuits; not on our travel clothes
(Image courtesy NASA. Geologist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot covered in lunar dirt)
Our travel wardrobe is built around black. So lint picked up on the train or Uber to the airport, at the airport, on the airplane, from encounters with dogs or cats or walks on the moon can be a problem.
In a pinch we’ll ask our hotel front desk to give us a circle of Scotch tape to help us deal with lint on an outfit.
And last year we bought a 6-pack of Scotch-Bright travel-sized retractable lint rollers and put one in every bag we might take on the road. Last week we received a sample of another travel-sized lint removing tool that seems promising: a pocket-sized packet of 40 LintZapper sheets.
(Note: You can’t buy the KLM special-edition house. You may shop for Straightaway cocktails at PDX airport or on their site. My Amazon affiliate link is in the lint remover mentions).
