Wanderlust Journey

I’m always jealous of people who go on super-extended vacations, like for a month or more, where they go as far as to rent out storage spaces to put their stuff in while they’re traveling the world. If you intend to travel for at least a month, it starts making sense to ditch that rent [...]

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The political and social unrest in Egypt has a lot of US tourists scrambling to get out of the country on one of the several US chartered planes. If you ever travel outside of the country, whether it’s to Germany, where you wouldn’t expect demonstrations of this magnitude, or areas with greater levels of unrest, [...]

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Anyone who has ever snagged their zipper knows this – zippers aren’t secure. They’re not designed to be secure, they’re simply designed to close/seal your bag quickly and cleanly. That’s why I’ve always found it silly when someone put a lock on their luggage because the lock doesn’t do anything except make you feel better [...]

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The most appealing thing about Southwest’s old Rapid Rewards program was how easy it was to understand. You flew eight round-trips and you earned a Rapid Rewards voucher good for a seat on any flight, subject to seat limitations and blackout dates. It doesn’t get any easier than that. Now, Southwest is migrating towards a [...]

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Ever book an airline ticket and wonder what you should put into the optional “Redress #” field? I did and that’s when I learned that it’s related to the Department of Homeland Security’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP). I have a fairly common name and I’ve been fortunate enough not to share it with someone [...]

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In generally, airplane luggage compartments are pressurized but not at sea level. It’s generally assumed that the under-floor luggage compartment area is pressured to 8,000 feet above sea level, which is enough to push corks out of wine bottles bottled at sea level. So while it’s better than being unpressurized, especially when cruising at 30,000 [...]

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Go on enough cruises and you’ll notice they give the decks on the ship cute names. For example, the Carnival Imagination has ten named decks – Riviera, Main, Upper, Empress, Atlantic, Promenade, Lido, Verandah, Sports and Sun. The Norwegian Sky also has a lot of fun deck names like Biscayne and Fjord. One deck name [...]

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Last month, the Airline Passenger Bill of Rights was included in and approved with the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill. It’s a bill that’s been in the works for what seems like years and finally gives passengers some reasonable rights when it comes to air travel. The rules took effect yesterday. What are they?

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Eyjafjallajökull is the name of the volcano on Iceland that shut down European airspace for about a week (see some amazing pictures from The Big Picture) and I bet you have no idea how to pronounce it. How do I know? I listened to the pronunciation about thirty times and I still can’t repeat it! [...]

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With our short three-day cruise to the Bahamas all booked, reading stories like the recent outbreak of a norovirus-like illness on the Celebrity Mercury sure isn’t comforting. The number of people affected seems to be around 400 and while they’re unsure how it got on board, they’ve responded by bringing a doctor on board and [...]

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