In the frequent travel world, you’ll hear “it doesn’t hurt to ask” a lot.  This is even more true in Vegas, where many things are negotiable. Someone was just asking me about my experience with getting upgrades at hotels.  While I have status at various hotels in Vegas, my major upgrades …

The other day, I wrote about some pre-flight stretches I found that are supposedly great for you.  And I admitted I did them in the lounge–albeit, in a section of the lounge that was completely empty. But a woman decided to take her stretching onto the plane and did her …

You probably don’t actually want to read this.  I’ve warned you.  I’m still warning you.  Okay.  You asked for it. My step-grandmother got me a UV-flashlight since I travel so much.  She wanted me to be able to check whether or not the bed sheets were changed before I used …

I’ll have more of a trip report later,  but I’m currently sitting in an open air pub by the ocean.   And I’m currently having all the feels.  It’s so beautiful here and the climate is the perfect weather for me.  (as someone from the Northeast and former figure skater, …

I use Google Maps to get around when traveling pretty often.  Luckily, there’s a way to navigate around without using tons of data.  This trick works by using a downloaded map, then navigating using your GPS location.  By navigate, I don’t mean using the navigation settings, but by looking at …

Really Cheap Flights There have been a lot of great deals going on lately.  If you scroll through the Flight Deal’s website, you can find trips to Asia for $400, or trips to Europe for a few hundred dollars. View from the Wing analyzes the situation and explains why he …

Fable III has been one of my favorite games.  It’s probably the only game that I ran around trying to do every single side quest (though I’m still missing a few gnomes). Part of what I really liked about it is that your choices have consequences in the rest of …

One of my problems with portable chargers is that I only remember I want to take it with me a few minutes before I leave to go out.  I try to charge it last second and I get about a 3% charge on the device.  Which is not useful at …

I’ve learned in the travel world that it never hurts to ask.  In this case, I saw a great article about plane spotting and wanted to learn more.  Namely, the author mentioned that he uses a variety of apps for plane spotting. I was cheeky enough to ask if he …

One of the interesting things about being in another country on the other side of the world is seeing the news unfold while it’s happening.  Normally, this is a story that would pop up on my reader in the morning, but I heard about it as it was happening since …