I briefly mentioned the value of purchasing trip insurance twice in this blog: once when our honeymoon to Thailand was nearly sabotaged by the hundred thousands of protestors taking over the airports in Bangkok, and another regarding injuries while on vacation. Now, Jon and I are cashing in on our trip insurance, which we bought [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 24, 2010
Now Boarding: “Fly Girls” on the CW
O.M.G! The CW has debuted its own reality show where they follow around five very sexy, pretty young female flight attendants through all their drama and daily woes. Viewers of “Fly Girls” fly around with the Virgin America flight attendants donning straight-jacket-tight white button-up shirt uniforms and tight skirts as they spend their layovers going to parties [...]
March 21, 2010
Cool Tools: SteriPen water purifier
Nothing can ruin a great trip to an exotic country than consuming some exotic bacteria and setting off what’s more euphemistically referred to as “Montezuma’s Revenge”. You can soak your hands in Purell all your want and run all your silverware under rubbing alcohol, but even brushing your teeth with tap water or eating fruit [...]
March 16, 2010
Now Boarding: Trouble in Paradise
Recently, we’ve been trying to book my inlaws on a much-deserved tropical vacation for a week. They wanted somewhere quiet, clean, comfortable, ocean view, with good restaurants and weather, minus screaming kids, minus drunk college students, minus drunk middle agers pretending to be in college. So we chose St. Martin – an island for those [...]
March 9, 2010
Cool Tools: Tripadvisor!
One of my favorite travel tools of all time (though taken with a grain of salt): TripAdvisor.com. I’ve been on there multiple times while researching several trips for people who wrote requesting help with travel planning. Talk about an open forum! People go on there all the time to rant or rave about a hotel [...]
March 2, 2010
In the Suitcase: What to do if you get hurt or sick while traveling
The worst case scenario in any travel adventure is that people can get hurt! Tourists wander around in a bubble, observing their new surroundings like visitors at an uncaged zoo, avoiding the water and washing their hands with alcohol wipes but never expecting that they can be just as vulnerable to accidents and injuries. And [...]
March 1, 2010
On My Itinerary: Kilimanjaro?
Jon and I are starting to plan out the details of going to southern Africa this summer for an entire fortnight (i.e. 14 days for non-Shakespeare fans; also a LOT of time for American travelers! two whole weeks!). We’ve decided on a five-day safari that would zoom us around the major parks of northern Tanzania, [...]
