I read a lot of travel message boards and blogs. Its somewhat of a necessity when you travel regularly and need to be a content expert while doing so. And as I do so, I’m sometimes surprised at how much people complain about little things. But I’m working on my own skills with saying “that’s not…
It’s Sunday and I’m wondering exactly where my weekend has escaped too, something I do all too frequently. And then I remember that I fell into the rabbit hole of driving for UberX (including my live tweetalong last night which you can still read on Twitter via #virtualride) and keeping the content flowing here (something I do…
Summer travel season is hitting its final furious weeks. Airplanes are crowded. Airports are crowded. Rental car shuttles are crowded. Even the local Starbucks where I blog each day is crowded. And everyone is clamoring for the same precious every shrinking space. It can make the average day downright frustrating. Today I got to Starbucks…
This weekend I took a peek behind the curtain of the world of manufactured spending – and what I discovered surprised me just a little bit! In the world of manufactured spending (MS for short), relative anonymity is critical. And as such, many veteran accumulators who practice MS do not welcome publicity to what some…
Nothing tends to make me shake my head faster than a mainstream article that gives misleading travel advice to the masses. My “favorites” include the regularly circulating tips I see about how to regularly score upgrades on airlines that generally run along the lines of “show up dressed nicely and let the gate agent know…
I travel way too much to be a responsible pet owner. But I have many friends that do have pets. And some of those pets travel as much as their owners, in under the seat carriers. On long travel days with delays and connections, finding appropriate airport pet relief areas can be critical when Fido…
I’ve seen a new tool popping up recently in my social media feed – a Leatherman-style hair barrette for women that boasts several tool functions for $10. And I’m also wondering will this get through airport security these days? And if not, have we now created a new subclass of items – women’s accessories – for…
I hate early morning flights – and they are even worse when your seat assignment sucks. That seems to be happening to many these days with fully booked flights – someone has to sit in the dreaded middle seats or back rows of the plane. Last week I was nursing my Starbucks in the Admirals…
I love getting to visit New York City – and one of my favorite things to do is to catch a hot Broadway performance in the epicenter of the theatre world. Scoring show tickets at a discount is not a challenge either as long as you know the ropes! Sometimes I have the ability (and…
I was digging around in my freezer this morning looking for frozen fruit. I wanted to make a smoothie to drink on my way to the airport. As I rummaged through the bottom freezer bin I thought “there has to be a better way to deal with this mess”. I remembered a gem I found on the…
A distressed passenger is suing British Airways after he thought he booked a ticket to Granada, Spain but instead was bound for Grenada – in the Caribbean – because his travel geography and that of the reservation agent did not align. While many on social media and message boards are crying “frivolous”, it forced me to…
Recently I completed a cruise vacation in the Black Sea region that included a number of ports with limited online travel information. Not wanting to rely on a limited selection of cruise line shore excursions to see a smaller port, I road tested something new popping up in some destinations – free city tours given by…