Use Rakuten for travel (and get cash back)
Are you familiar with Rakuten, the online shopping app that gives you cash back when you make a purchase? Did you know you can use Rakuten for travel bookings? Well, you can! It’s a good Read More …
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When is the best time to visit anywhere?
I’m a picky traveler when it comes to weather: I want it not too hot or too cold or too wet or too humid. Unfortunately, I also seem to be almost magnetically drawn to hot, Read More …
Get more in your suitcase with Ziploc packing
I’m one of those people who want to take lots of stuff with me when I travel, but I don’t want to haul around a huge suitcase. That can be a bit of a challenge. Read More …
Mind your boarding pass, but don’t freak out about it
Everyone who flies knows their boarding pass contains basic personal and flight information, but do you know what information is hidden in that bar code? I never thought about it at all until I began Read More …
A Gift from My Father: A Love of Travel
I love to travel and I have traveled at least a little all my life. That may not sound very impressive, but I grew up in a place where few people expressed any curiosity about Read More …
Good gear: 150W power inverter
Never get caught with a dead camera battery (or phone or tablet) again. 150W power inverter This is an electric power inverter – a gadget that takes DC power (produced by your car or boat’s Read More …
Remembering Dave
One of my traveling companions passed away last week. More than a traveling companion, perhaps, since in some ways it is because of Dave Radford that I got hooked on international travel. Dave’s had MS Read More …
The Places I Long to Return To
In conjunction with my list of 50 Dream Trips – places I haven’t been to yet, but hope to visit someday, I’ve been compiling a list of Places Worth a Return trip – places I’ve Read More …
The Best Way to Book a Flight with Frequent Flier Miles
We’ve been saving our miles for a travel to some place far away, like Africa, preferably for a first/business class upgrade. . . but I couldn’t figure out a way to do that with the Read More …
to & from the airport.com
I have new favorite website: To&fromtheairport.com promises to tell you how to get to and from the airport. I guess I’ll find out in a month or so how good it really is, but Read More …