I Am A Lousy Tipper (According to This Study)
Who is a lousy tipper? And where are the best tippers found? This new study on tipping looks at the median tip segmented by demographic groups.
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You Signed Up for Amazon Prime – Now What?
So you signed up for Amazon Prime yesterday… now what happens? The amazing Amazon Prime Day deals were too good to pass up. We know… way too good to miss! You signed up for Amazon Prime to take advantage of them. But what can you do with that membership after Amazon Prime Day has ended?…
More Amazon Prime Day Picks
More Amazon Prime Day 2017 picks and finds including our favorite NYDJ skinnies, more electronics and gadgets, headphones, and cookware.
Amazon Prime Day Favorites – Ten of Our Picks
Ten of our favorite sale items from Amazon Prime Day 2017 including electronics, kitchen appliances, personal grooming, and travel accessories.
Fight Identity Theft, Earn Bonus Miles
Earning bonus miles is nifty. Many of you do that easily by applying for one credit card after another and reaping the bonus miles. That is the fun – and certainly the most effortless – way to do it. But if you are the victim of identity theft, it can also be the difficult route to go. Take it…
Travels With Mom – Favorites and Flashbacks
I’ve heard it said that “travel is in your blood”. If that is the case, it is certainly an inherited love. Mother’s Day is a great time to reflect on who passes on that love to us. For many of us, our earliest journeys are woven together – they are jointly travels with mom. Later, when…
How to Make a Return from Vacation Pain-Free (Almost)
Yesterday was our return from vacation after a week-long trip to the Bahamas and Cuba. After being gone for that long, there are always the inevitable household tasks to take care of before the next business trip and regular life kicks in again soon. Is there anything important in that giant stack of mail on the…
Summer Travel – 21 Must-Have Essentials
Summer travel time is almost here. For many, that means taking a trip to somewhere sunny – a cruise, beach vacation, camping, or foreign exploration. We are just returning from a week in the sun cruising on the Norwegian Sky. Now that I’m back, I wanted to share my personal list of must-have summer travel essentials. These 21 items…
Common Cultural Foods: Beans or No Beans?
Food is the great equalizer. Or so you would think. Everybody has to eat. And the list of common cultural ingredients is fairly lengthy. Rice, wheat, beans, fish, meat, poultry, legumes, oils, dairy, fruits, vegetables – at some point in time, it all begins to cross-pollinate. And yet every person in every corner of the globe…
Tru Bahamian Food Tours – LIVE from Nassau
Today our Instagram feed was live from Nassau Bahamas for several hours. We were here as part of our week on Norwegian Sky. Live From Nassau We spent the day with Tru Bahamian Food Tours on their Taste of Nassau tour. If you know how picky we are about shore excursions then you know we were…
Three Secret Travel Toiletries I Can’t Live Without
I am giving away all my secrets lately. First I confessed that I travel with my secret weapons for good hair. Now I’m admitting to three secret travel toiletries that I cannot live without. I hunt these babies down. Sometimes buy them in bulk. I simply cannot run out. Ever. They are not the things you’d usually think of…
Fyre Festival Debacle and Five Travel Planning Takeaways
As my flight cruises high above the California desert, passing near Coachella, I can’t stop thinking (and laughing) about the giant music-festival-turned-dumpster-fire known as the Fyre Festival. The #fyrefraud was targeted at high net worth Millenials. It was supposed to be a two-weekend “luxury music festival”. Event organizers claimed the location, a private island in…