Out of new-found respect for people who  do everything southpaw, here are some travel items to make your travel a little easier: Left handed travel corkscrewhttp://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/acatalog/travel-corkscrew-left-handed.htmlTravel corkscrew in stainless steel with anti-clockwise thread – turn in the natural left-handed motion. The two parts fit together in their gift box for …

If you’ve been noticing more typos from me lately on the blog and twitter, it isn’t that I’ve been hitting the wine hard(er).  I got into a knife fight with, well.. a knife, and the knife won.  My right hand is pretty incapacitated for now, and I’ve been learning to …

When we ran to Jamaica, I got stuck standing outside in Philly on the way back… in January… in a sundress.  While I had my sunburn to keep me warm, that’s not always the healthiest form of heat.  Luckily, a new prototype promises to fix that. Behold, the Winter Sun …

Google maps continues to amaze me.  Not only does it help me navigate traffic on the go (for free), give me transit directions in unfamiliar cities, and let me fly a plane, now it lets me take vacations to places I haven’t been able to get to yet. Behold, the …

Remember when I told you to ignore the option of an off-peak fare to Europe in business class on US Airways? Yeah, I promised to get back to that later. Turns out, I lied about explaining it later.  Gary from View from the Wing reports: They’ve eliminated their ‘off peak’ …

Am I going to be an America Airlines elite soon?  It’s looking like American and US Airways are going be announcing a merger on Monday. Sources say US Airways CEO Doug Parker will likely take over, and American’s Tom Horton will be given an honorary position on the board. The …

Hyatt just released news about a promotion where every 3 nights, you can earn 3,000 points.  (If you have a Hyatt Credit card, you get a 20% bonus on these points too).  This maxes out at 45,000 points, or 45 nights in a three-month period, March 1-May 31st.  Mommy Points …

Just a quick note that US Airways has announced 1,000 bonus miles on their shuttle flights between BOS, LGA, and DCA for the month of February.  While it doesn’t warrant travel for the sake of travel, if any of your upcoming trips contain a shuttle segment, make sure you sign …

I wrote before that if you were going to throw caution to the wind and book a seat in business, it may be worth outright buying the miles instead of paying for the flight. We saw that it did not make sense to buy miles to take a simple trip …

I’ve noticed many articles talking about taking advantage of sales on miles as a good idea if you want to “top off” your mileage account.  Rather than simply top off, I think it is good sometimes to outright buy a ton of a miles if you are planning certain kinds …