Travel

Anybody who has researched airfares on the web has experienced the frustration of not only trying to figure out if they have found the cheapest fare or not, but also of deciding whether there’s any chance the fare will get cheaper or not.  Farecast tries to solve this problem.  When you research fares on Farecast, […]

You should always put your entire trip on one itinerary.  Here are two reasons why along with some real life pain caused by multiple itineraries. You should put all your flights on one itinerary because if anything goes wrong, the airlines will help you get to your final destination.  If you are on multiple itineraries

I’m always looking for better sites to find cheap airfares.  I get really frustrated that the airlines can charge not just different fares for different days but different fares for the same seats on the same airplane!  I found this site, ITA Software, yesterday and it’s great!  It even has an option "search within this

Some very cool underwater pictures.  I especially like the one of the turtle.  Flickr: The This Is Why We Dive Pool. I have been really, really wanting to go back to the British Virgin Islands.  We haven’t found another family with kids to go with though.  I want to get a catamaran and go snorkeling

Here’s a guy who sets himself up to be pickpocketed and then picks the pickpocker’s pocket! Take My Wallet, Please. How do you track down pickpockets? I stuff my wallet with paper and keep it in my pants pocket. Then I linger in prime tourist spots in foreign cities. Sooner or later, someone steals the

There’s Simply No Excuse for Being Bored on a Trip – New York Times. That’s when it occurred to me that there is no such thing as a boring place. Only boring travelers.

A list of exactly what you can and cannot carry on: TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items.  You’ll be glad to know that cattle prods are not allowed onboard.

And here’s the states I’ve been to from Visited States.  I’d like to point out that I visited most of these in a car first.  Quite a few of them in a VW bug with my entire family! create your own visited states map

You can use this website to quickly make a map of the countries you have visited.  Here’s mine: create your own visited countries map