This past weekend, I had the privilege to speak at Dia’s 3rd Family Travel for Real Life #FT4RL conference. I will be upfront. My wife and I are DINKS, Double Income, No Kids. But we still have Family! I shared the below graphic in my presentation, partnered with Kenny, of travel that we were able to…
Hipmunk did an interesting study on which US Cities and States are most pet friendly. Its interesting that at the top level, only 41% of US hotels are pet friendly. That’s actually higher than I expected, until I did some more digging of my own. In fact, I was quite surprised with how many big hotel…
On an idle Saturday, I happened to be scanning twitter, and I saw this from @AirlineReporter:From the Idaho Statesman – and believe me, the title of their article is poorly done, but here it is – Passengers evacuate plane at Boise Airport after fuel leak sparks fire fearIt appears that the reason they decided to…
When I first saw @CanadianKMs tweet this a few weeks ago, I thought it was great. Canadians and Americans now get Visa-Free access to Indonesia! Yay! http://t.co/VTdRDx4RZs— Jeff (@canadiankms) March 17, 2015Well, it turns out, its not so great. I received a tweet from 2 Global Nomads today, alerting me to things not looking so…
This past weekend, my wife and I embarked on our most ambitious mileage run ever. We flew from Washington-Dulles (IAD) to Doha, Qatar (DOH) to Cairo, Egypt (CAI), and back, with the least amount of time on the ground possible. You can see the play by play via twitter by searching #90minturninCAI By the numbers ~16,415 Butt…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, Flying All Nippon Airways Square Class, Flying All Nippon Airways Business Class, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review, Touring the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan, Dueling Alliance Lounges at Tokyo-Haneda Airport, Visiting the Great Wall, The Grand Hyatt Beijing, and…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, Flying All Nippon Airways Square Class, Flying All Nippon Airways Business Class, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review, Touring the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan, Dueling Alliance Lounges at Tokyo-Haneda Airport, The Grand Hyatt Beijing, and the Hyatt Regency…
Not too long ago, Trevor and I were asked our opinions on purchasing travel insurance before going abroad. Considering how travelers are asked about purchasing a policy several times before booking travel through airlines and online travel agencies, it’s a very relevant question. Does it make sense to purchase travel insurance before flying?As with many…
I’m finding myself traveling to the Middle East, or more accurately, through the Middle East a whole lot more than I used to. I’m noticing others flying to or via the Middle East as well. So far as I can tell, here are a few reasons: The three major airlines – Emirates, Etihad Airways, and…
One of the best pieces of advice about finding award space that I could offer is – find the most difficult leg of the itinerary, and work from there. There are a lot of tools available online that can help in finding award space, but not all of them are robust enough to think of weird permutations…