A military force forcibly evacuated the entire population of this capital city in 1975. It remained virtually deserted until 1979 when the military force was overthrown. Name the capital city… Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The United States has hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics FOUR times each. Three different cities have hosted the Summer and three different other cities have hosted the Winter. Name them… Summer: St. Louis 1904; Los Angeles 1932 and 1984; Atlanta 1996 Winter: Lake Placid 1932 and 1980; Squaw Valley 1960; Salt Lake City […]

Last night I was at the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which is a college basketball post season tournament here in the US, and I was sitting next to a guy and we got to chatting about travel. He mentioned, as many people have, that the exchange rates for […]

I get asked a lot about which sites I use to book travel on and where to find the best deals on airfare. This is of course a fair question but there is no one site or place where you can simply find great deals all of the time. You need to look around a […]

Hotel loyalty programs are as important as frequent flyer programs because it is easy to rack up points to get free nights. Hotel programs, like airline programs, have groups of hotels that you can earn points at. My personal favorite program is Starwood Preferred Guest and in my opinion it is the best customer loyalty […]

I get a lot of emails from students who are contemplating studying abroad. They ask me a whole spectrum of questions from where to go, to the costs, to how hard classes are, to the experience they can expect. I am always happy to reply because studying abroad in college changed my life and it […]

Often times when you are trying to see a lot of different places within a country or within a region the best way to do it is by car. However, sometimes you just don’t feel like driving yourself. Also, drivers in certain countries, especially the developing countries, have drivers that think they are Formula 1 […]