YOUNG CAREER TRAVELER

Yesterday, I booked a flight to Dublin for my friends’ destination birthday party. (We single folks have to treat ourselves, we don’t get the destination wedding.)  I was patting myself on the back because I saved $150 over the lowest price I had seen even though I procrastinated and fares had risen.  After receiving my email confirmation with the receipt and itinerary, I noticed that I might have ended up unwittingly making a mistake that could’ve cost me a lost day of vacation and money.  Here’s how to avoid the not so obvious mistake I made. Continue reading →

There’s “broke” and there’s rich people’s  -  I’m down to my last million – broke.  So too with  bargain hunting.  If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that I’m a bargain traveler, but I’m a mixed bag when it comes to just how frugal cheap I am.  I tend to travel places when I find them at a deal, but they’re usually overseas which is seen as relative luxury to a lot of people.  As one college roommate put it, I’m a silver spoon on a paper plate.  In my last post, I told you how I got a 4 star room (at a great price), but I took the bus to get there instead of flying or the train.  I even shared how you can buy your own island for under $200,ooo.   Today, I’m letting you know how you take a private jet on your next trip. Continue reading →

There’s one thing that can turn a flight into a living hell, excessive noise.  Whether it’s the baby that won’t stop crying, the chatty person sitting next to you, or the kid who has his music cranked up so loud that you can hear what they’re listening to, it can make a flight rough.  It’s bad enough that they have us squeezed in like cattle and charge us fees up the wazoo, but we shouldn’t have to have our ears assaulted too.  That’s nothing compared to what passengers had to put up with on this flight. Continue reading →

Graham Hughes

People always ask me where I want to travel. It’s  eaiser to tell people where I don’t want to go: Antarctica and anywhere where people want to do me harm. (It’s not that people want to harm me me personally, although there are few people who probably roll their eyes at the mere mention of my name, but places where they would have no problem making an example of a tourist/foreigner, an American, etc.) I really would like to see all those other places, but I don’t really think that I’ll actually squeeze all that in.  One person has. Graham Hughes has become the first person to visit all 201 UN member countries without taking a plane.  Continue reading →