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Sometimes airline prices are too good to be true. This happens a lot when you’re using a fare considator or fare aggregator, such as kayak.com or skyscanner.com. When you see the cheapest price around on one of those sites, you get very excited. When you click on the flight, and it all looks okay, you [...]
DC wins hands down as the city with most annoying public transit payment system in the country. I’m amazed this ridiculously convoluted system still exists in our nation’s capital. As a traveller to the city, you’ll come face to face with the brunt of the ticket problems. Here’s what you’ll encounter: 1. There will be [...]
I hate how money seems to disappear at Starbucks. Don’t get me wrong- I actually love Starbucks. I really like coffee in the morning, and Starbucks coffee is good. They have soy milk when no one else seems to. They have somewhat edible breakfast sandwiches when I’m in a desperate breakfast hurry. They give you [...]
I was never too familiar with Southwest. This elusive airline never shows up when I search for flights. I always have to go to Southwest.com directly to see the Southwest fares. However, whenever I occasionally checked the website out, the prices would be too high from New York or the flights would be sold out. [...]
As I packed for my hundredth trip this year (or maybe not the hundredth trip, but something like that),I realized that I was putting the same couple of items back in my bag again and again. Why do I keep unpacking these same things over and over when I just have to repack them again? It’s [...]
So, it turns out that San Francisco can actually be a sunny place. Every time I’d traveled to the Bay City before, twice in the past 4 years, it was raining almost the whole time. In my recent memory of the city, it was also an insanely hilly place – with hills sloping vertically upwards, slowing [...]
Not too long ago I had to catch a bus at 6:45 AM and go straight to work once the bus dropped me off at my destination. This kind of early and immediate working situation makes me extremely nervous. It entails me waking up at a crazy hour (in my case 4:45) and groggily going [...]
A flight attendant friend of mine once remarked on one of her biggest airport pet peeves: people who stop her in the terminal and ask her where their gate is. She usually has to inform them that she doesn’t know (and probably doesn’t even work for the airline they’re flying with) but that there are television monitors [...]
Happy New Year Everyone! I’ve probably travelled more this year than I ever have…and all for work. I’ve been playing around with simple New Years travel resolutions that evolved from what I learned traveling this year. Hopefully you can use some of these resolutions for your travels as well. For 2013 1) Take at least one [...]
Have you ever gone online to book a flight, thought about paying for your trip right then, and then wondered whether you should wait? This has happened to me many times. I’ve heard every kind of money-saving tactic from ‘wait until Tuesday when airlines post sales,’ to ‘try using different computers to search because airline websites are [...]
I’ve discovered a new favorite travel food! It’s called Dr. McDougall’s soup! I really miss having soup when I travel, since as a liquid, it’s impossible to bring with me on planes. Also, even when I’m busing or driving somewhere, soup cans are pretty worthless to me unless I eat them cold (ick!). I can [...]
