Travel dilemmas: New year, new ways ahead

I've already broken one of my travel resolutions for the new year. I promised I wouldn't be early anymore. But here it is Dec. 23, and I'm already writing my New Year's resolutions well before the ball drop. How annoyingly like me to be early. Except, of course, when it comes to deadlines, where I seem to be able to control this. But in travel this is an issue, one of the many I'll try to correct in 2019. So to begin:

Problem: Being obsessively early for flights, sentencing myself to time in an airport.

Solution: If I loosen my grip on my "on-time-is-late" mantra, my second-most-annoying ride-share driver would solve my problem if I could be assured of getting him every time.

It is OK to get lost, although that makes you