When traveling to certain areas of the world, you need to be careful.  Murder rates and crime rates can be scary, and you must always be on guard. But what murder rate frightens me the most? That of Cabot Cove, Maine. Cabot Cove is the residence of Jessica Fletcher and …

Sometimes I forget the level of benefits I am getting by being an elite–like having the late ticketing fee waived. Airlines tend to charge for “late ticketing,” or as US Airways calls it, Quick Ticketing. This is when you book an award ticket close to the date of departure.  On …

That Mile High Club “badge” could have been my little secret.  (And in fact, I ran into someone who reads the blog randomly yesterday who exclaimed, “You’re the Mile High Club Girl!” …uh oh.) A reader wrote to me about Foursquare privacy issues, and how you can take control over …