In case you haven’t noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven’t, I haven’t been writing much in the past two years. No worries, nothing bad has happened! We’re still traveling (mostly) as much as ever, but our kids are older (12 and 8!) and since I’m homeschooling them I’ve …

Love to travel? Live in the greater-DC/NoVA area? Come to our (free) travel meetup! Meet up with two of Boarding Area’s bloggers–Le Chic Geek aka Jeanne, and Pizza in Motion aka Ed. We’ll be hanging out at a bar in Merrifield with a great Italian selection. We’ve also negotiated an …

Just a quick post to let you know that Amazon.com has a $50 Hotels.com gift card for $40.  This is limited stock.  If it isn’t $40, that means the deal sold out. You can find it here. Useable up to balance only for hotel bookings at hotels.com/gc. Not redeemable at …

A note that there’s a good fair to Sweden on Swiss. The Boston-Stockholm flight is $383 and involves summer travel. As always, the Flight Deal has all the details. I subscribe to the Flight Deals tweets and check them pretty often.  I may have booked deals during work meetings.  (If …

Amazon has a great deal on a Quick Charge 2.0 Dual USB Smart Car Charger.  It comes with a car locator feature/app and is only $5 for the next five hours (or until the deal price runs out of stock). This is highly rated.  It was a bit too expensive …

Here’s a great deal to Barcelona.  You can fly from multiple airports to Spain for only $357 when you book two one-way flights on Iberia’s Level. Flights are available out of Los Angeles and Oakland. As always, the Flight Deal has all the details. I subscribe to the Flight Deals tweets …

Amazon currently has a deal where you can get a dollar shave club gift card for 20% off.  Amazon has a $50 gift card for $40. I’m currently a subscriber to the dollar shave club (as a woman). Here’s my previous review: As I snagged a bag of my usual pastel pink, …

Amazon has a big sale on Bethesda games today. The sale includes: Fallout 4 for $19.99 (PC, PS4, Xbone) Doom for $19.99 (all three) Dishonoured 2 for $29.99 (all three) You can check out the whole sale here. In addition to this sale, SCDKey has a Call Of Duty Black Ops …

Here’s a great deal to Europe including some Summer Fares. There are currently great fares to Europe from multiple cities in the US, from East to West Coast. From the Flight Deal (copied directly), this includes:   Dallas [DFW] Amsterdam [AMS] Barcelona [BCN] Paris [CDG] Rome [FCO] Madrid [MAD] Manchester …

A little over a week ago, I wrote about how Uber drivers have been increasingly asking for your destination before pick-up.  The drivers are trying to decide whether or not they want to take your fare.  If they don’t want to take the ride, they may try to convince the …