How to score cheap business and even first-class flights
This was a wonderful surprise to me in the past year and I actually forgot to write about it. I guess I was just so overcome with how amazing of a deal I managed to get one day…
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Travel scams: The really cheap taxi ride to tourist hot-spots
This scam really should be something that everyone already knows about but just a few days ago I ran into someone that got ripped off by this scam in the past month. I thought…
USA has the only airports in the world with no international transit lounges
I don't know exactly when it happened, but I became aware of this only after trying to fly from Central America to Asia in the past few years. Perhaps this rule has existed for…
Travel Scams: The "friend" buying you drinks
This one is global and you hear about it in variations that exist all around the world. To me, this happened to me in Nicaragua and my mind has been a bit different ever since…
Japan is a new hotspot for vacation and I'm not sure exactly how
Japan is a truly wonderful place to visit. I have been there 3 times in the past but I have been kind of ignoring anything that is on the "other" side of the Pacific ocean in…
What happened to being able to search for a wide range of dates for flights?
It's been a while since i took part in using a website-based flight booking system and this is because I stopped seeing the benefits of using them. Travel agents still exist and…
Stupid travel mistake on my part
I've traveled rather successfully for many years now. I like to think that I know a fair bit more about the travel process despite how ever-changing it is just based on the fact…
Is the fuel crisis real?
I'm a big believer in that most of what we see on the news is a bunch of bullcrap and is there to push some sort of political agenda or to justify the raising of prices on…
The relative death of backpacking
While backpacking is still a thing for some people I have noticed that there has been a real decline in this wonderful activity in the past 20 years or so. When I first…
Backpacking tip: Take the night train or bus instead of flying
This depends heavily on the country that you are in at the time and whether or not they have good road maintenance of course, but for the most part I have found that just taking…