Thanks everyone for a great launch! I did a giveaway where you told me your favorite blog post to enter to win passes.  Random.org has spoken, and these are our winners. The winners of one Gogo Pass: Bradley B. April 16, 2015 at 9:34 pm http://lechicgeek.boardingarea.com/the-ultimate-avgeek-romantic-gesture/ Dan April 18, 2015 4:02 …

Amtrak Wifi is pretty horrific.  In fact, I usually switch to tethering off my iPad’s 4G rather than use it because I’ve found it pretty slow. I guess I’ve gotten so used to switching to 4G that I haven’t realized just how slow it can get. I loved that Amtrak had …

A friend texted me about a frightening (and long) Uber ride he took.  He was attempting to get from DC to his place in Virginia–a place actually walking distance from the border with DC. Surge pricing was out, and he used the app to snag an Uber to get home. He watched …

Calbuco in Chile has erupted for the first time in over 40 years, causing flight cancellations in the area. According to Bloomberg.com:  The government declared a state of catastrophe in the area surrounding the Calbuco Volcano, about 960 kilometers (600 miles) south of Santiago, after two eruptions in the past 15 …

I keep running into the weirdest Hyatt bugs, but this one would have been particularly bad.  This has also happened to me at least once before and luckily I noticed it after booking and Hyatt was able to undo it.  In this case, I noticed during booking. I was looking …

Spirit Airlines likes to keep you on your toes. They’ve changed their baggage fees again. Oh, Spirit Airlines baggage fees… Previously you paid the same fee if you purchased your bag online before you checked into your flight no matter when you did it as long as it was before …

When I was in college, I traveled out to Salisbury to see the Magna Carta in person (well, one of the surviving four).  I think I just found another work worth pilgrimage-ing out for. Yoda makes an appearance in the Smithfield Decretals.  The resemblance is striking. According to the Telegraph: British Library …

I knew how this was going to end–but even then, this audio from a conversation between a pilot whose landing gear wouldn’t go down and the air traffic control tower had me in tears by the end. Between his silent dignity in accepting what could happen, his professional request to …

Someone, for whatever cruel reason, just sent me the clip from the flight attendant zombie attack in World War Z. After I climbed out of the corner I was slowly rocking myself in, I decided to pull up some real, more uplifting clips of flight attendants. Here are the best ones …

Many of us have experience travel horror stories, but many have also had it worse.  And boy do these stories have it worse. I selected the “winners” of the Gogo passes.  And while I wish they didn’t have these travel horror stories, at least they won something out of it! …