Last night I flew back to New York from Jacksonville, Florida and the weather in Florida couldn’t have been better. However, as we made our way up the east coast it started to get a little bumpier. All of a sudden you could see lightning blazing through the clouds. A truly awesome sight if you’re […]

The past few weeks I have spent numerous hours researching a trip I am going to take this summer in a region that I didn’t know too much about. Central Asia, aka “The Stans”, is a tough region to get around because of the route, the language, the beaurocracy, diplomatic relations between those countries, governmental […]

If you have a new US passport with the new electronic chip in them, you are probably aware that they no longer allow the 48 page passports. I don’t know the reason for this. It really makes no sense. If you are a frequent traveler and have a bunch of visas, stamps, amendments, etc. then […]

There is an Associated press report out that could potentially damage the global reputation and world dominance of the Lonely Planet travel guidebooks. A former Lonely Planet author who contributed to over a dozen LP books claims, “They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia (referring to LP),” Thomas Kohnstamm was quoted Sunday as […]

Based upon the most recent census, what is the only metropolitan area in the world with more than 30 million people? The megalopolis of Tokyo, Japan

As I am thinking about my summer trips, you can imagine they are fairly complicated trips trying to maximize time in places while seeing a lot of different things and possibly covering a few countries in a clip. Complicated trips make you do a lot of research and check lots of different options. Planning, route […]

Hamilton, Bermuda

My friend Jake called me up yesterday, giddy as a schoolgirl as he tends to get, to tell me that he just had a “win” with Cebu Pacific Airlines over a fare discrepency. I asked him the story and it clearly was a win as Jake just simply beat the agent down with relentless banter […]