Tips on Using Cell Phones Overseas
Attention to details before departure can ease the cell phone transition Disclaimer: I’m a cell phone dummy. I don’t have a smartphone. I have what I call a stupidphone on which I make/receive phone calls when I’m on the road (it resides in my purse, out of earshot, when I am home). It receives text messages and could send [...]
Chris Elliott’s New How-To Travel Book Free
Christopher Elliott is an award-winning consumer advocate on behalf of travelers, writing magazine features, a syndicated newspaper column, a website and more. His new eBook series called The Travel Troubleshooter is currently “in beta,” a version that is unformatted and therefore unpretty But to me, content is king, and each one is chock full of advance to make [...]
‘Skiing The Edge’ a Collection of Good Reads
Fine new E-anthology captures the good, the bad and the questionable of the ski life Like fly fishing, skiing is a sport, an avocation, a way of life that has spawned fine writing. Editor/writer/author Jules Older, himself one of the most talented scribes about the lifestyle that has grown around the activities of sliding on snow, [...]
QANTAS Grounds Its Fleet
Who’ll blink first? The airline or the unions? An ugly labor dispute between Australia’s QANTAS Airways and several unions from pilots on down became uglier. The issues include such cost-cutting measures as job-cutting, outsourcing and cancellation of orders for new Airbuses. Following strikes, stoppages and/or slowdowns, the airline has taken a hard line and grounded its fleet, CEO Alan Joyce informed [...]
Escape from Manhattan
Unpleasantness, delays & road rage as part of the New York travel experience I lived in the New York area for more than 20 years before moving to Colorado. I always look forward to my visits to New York for business and/or pleasure, but inevitably, I’m happy to get out of there once I’ve done what I need to, [...]
Fly the Congested Skies
Tech site ranks the 10 busiest air spaces Lists of the busiest airports in the country and the world in terms of passenger movements are easy to come by, but I had never before seen a list and a map of the 10 busiest air spaces in the country — whole regions controlled by the [...]
Fly or Drive? The Domestic Traveler’s Dilemma
Flying may win for one person, but two or more people spend less & have more flexibility by driving — especially on short trips I have been to Rapid City four or five times — always in winter and/or on business. And I’ve always flown. My husband and I are planning a long weekend there soon, [...]
Mississippi River Flooding Could Imperil Some Historic Sites
Some grand ante-bellum mansions along the great river might be in danger, high and dry Natchez should be safe but what about New Orleans? I hate headlines by conjecture but wrote one anyway. As I see the news stories forecasting the highest water since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 for the near future, I am [...]
US Proposes Complicated & Intrusive Passport Application
Is the US Department of State trying to make the country a prison without walls? Or is more about building walls than bridges? Sometimes it seems that way. First, American citizens were being required to carry a passport for travel to (or perhaps technically re-entry from) Canada and Mexico. Then, passport fees were raised for initial [...]
In Fiji, a Million Miles from America’s Ugly Politics
Bula! is Fijian for welcome. And I felt welcome on the Air Pacific plane and after landing at Nadi Is the US government functioning? I’m in Fiji, and right now, I don’t care. I left LAX on Thursday night, departing at 11:30 p.m., skipped all of the 8th as I flew across the international dateline. When [...]
