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Best Travel Mashups
How how I travelled without these!
- FrekFly
- This site provides practical information for travelers that travel by air.
Where's the airport located? What currency do they have over there? What's the weather? How do you get from the airport to the city center?
If you have some time to kill, where should you eat? How many times have you decided "let's go through security first" only to find out that the best restaurants are located before the security checks? Or vice versa?
To get practical information for your journey, enter the departure and arrival airport in the form provided at the site. - FlightAware
- Live flight tracker
Advice from the Well-Traveled
Great Squidoo Lenses and Websites to View
How To Live In Airplanes & Airports Without Really Trying
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Best Travel Quotes
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Quotes About Travel:
"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permenant, in the ideas of living."~Miriam Beard
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~St. Augustine
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." ~Seneca
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." ~Anatole France
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." ~Henry Boye
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Are we there yet?" ~Helen, age 4-46
Essential Travel Bookmarks
- FrekFly
- Ok, this one is more of a mashup, but it is my new BFF! Just enter your departing/arriving airports and whoop-tee-doo a page displays (quickly) telling you the "soup to nuts" of everything you want to know! No log-in, membership, fingerprint, etc... required!
- Seat Guru
- Special thanks to Peter Scott for recommending this site...The Exit Row really is the "First Class of Coach!"
- Airline Watchdog
- Super efficient airfare watch site...and the T-shirts are GREAT!! Gave them as Christmas gifts
- Flight Stats
- Type in the three letter code of the airport you are flying to and this site will give you an estimate of how long the wait is at TSA. Would have really helped to have this website info during last weekend's trip to St.Louis.
Also available for PDS's: mobile.flightstats.com - Farecast.com
- Booking a flight to a new city? Go to Farecast. This site offers a quick summary of airfare data so you will know a great airfare deal when you see it.
- Subway Maps
- Click on "Trip Tools" to access virtually every city that has a subway.
- Google Transit
- Create your own transit trip, complete with itineraries and maps (most cities)
- Kayak Travel Source
- This is a meta-search engine for airfare, hotel, etc...
Tips For Harmonious Zen-Like Travel
It is possible
See More Details in the Text Modules Below Tip #1: Stay Loyal to One Airline, join their frequent flyer program.
Tip #2: Airline Airport Clubs (i.e. Admirals Club) are worth the tax-deductible fee. The agents at these clubs reschedule delayed flights, hint about upcoming fare sales, procure distressed passenger hotel fees (or even waive the fee.) Plus there is a safe place for your stuff during long layovers and the bathrooms are so much cleaner!
Tip #3: Always ask for an upgrade at the gate (even if you are out of credits/money/ patience)~you never know if the gate employee is feeling generous. Ditto for car rentals and hotel rooms.
Tip #4: Avoid the bulkhead like the plague~~it is the day care aisle.
Tip #5: Always eat in local spots (not chains) and never question the cook! See complete explanation below.
Tip #6: Stay loyal to one hotel brand and sign up for their points program. The points build up fast!!!
Tip #7: Investigate double-dipping with points! (For instance, synchronize your car rental to also give you hotel points)
Tip #8: Join AAA. It is not just for dad's with station wagons on family vacations anymore. The hotel room discounts alone pay for the fee within one month. The road-side assistance is a life-saver!
Tip #9: Whether you are using your personal computer or a kiosk one, clean out your cookies when you leave travel websites. Travel sites use your cookie information to avoid showing you the same low price the next time you visit. Delete your cookies and they will treat you like a new customer and show you the lowest fares.
Tip #10: Use your cell phone like a PDA. Store your loyalty-program account numbers, names of helpful agents, local phone numbers for places you frequent.
Travel Airline and Airports
Airline and Airport Information
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Planning Your Vacation
Help and Ideas are just a Click Away!
- Fodors
- The archetype for all travel planning, now online.
- Adventure Travel Tips
- A categorized listing of trip possibilities.
- Adventure Travel for Women
- Trips include: hiking, canoeing, sea kayaking, dog sledding, cultural explorations, wildlife viewing, cross-country skiing, backpacking, rock climbing, or rafting
- BizTrip
- The art and science of business travel
- Around the World in 80 Clicks
- Great for previews and reviews.
- Virtual Field Trips
- ...If you can only travel virtually for awhile
Zoom through security and other travel essentials
Travel products worth your money
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Belkin F5L008-BRN Mouse Trap Mouse Pad
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Pacific Design Chloe Dao Nucleus 15.4" Laptop Case
Love these designs and they are so indestructible!
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ECCO Women's Ease Tassel Loafer
You can walk in a marathon in these shoes, also available in styles for men. Look for the MaryJane style
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What To Do With All Those Travel Pictures
These websites offer fabulous options for sharing your travel pictures and creating keepsakes from your trips
- Kodak Gallery
- A great online scrapbook to post your digital photos (or scanned photos for that matter). You can share them with others, create cool personalized products and have fun being your own photographic journalist.
- PhotoStamps
- No more tacky Elvis stamps! Create personalized postage with your favorite travel pictures. Yes, these are legal postage.
- Flickr
- Also, explore Flickr Blog, the World Map, Camera Finder or interesting photos from the last 7 days.
- PhotoShow
- Turn your photos into a musical slideshow right in your browser. Of course, there is the pitch to join, buy, upgrade, but just from the browser a tone is possible!
Put a Fork in it.
Best places to eat when on the road, send me yours and I will include!
Amarillo China Star off I-40.Wendy Wu serves the best Chinese food.Austin~ Roy's across from the Convention Center. Get the Butterfish & order the chocolate souffle before you lose your nerve. Marie Callendar's February is $5.00 pie month.
Buffalo Gap, TX Perini's Steak House. You will never forget dinner under the stars.
Camden, SC~ The Crescent Grille. The North would've surrendered & the South would've won the war if soldiers had tasted their salads and chocolate mousse.
Chicago~ Lawry's @ E. Ontario, love the gangster booths. Nathan's Hot Dogs: get change back from $5.00. And, of course, Giordano's, Chicago pizza.
Gloucester, MA ~ Catfish Corner
Huntington Beach, CA~ DonJose on Adams & Magnolia, order the chips & cheese & share.
Jackson,MS~ Char, I-55 N. Wonderful service, lighting, and Gumbo.
Los Angeles~ El Cholo, From May-Sept,green corn tamales are priceless! Available for shipping.
Newport, Rhode Island~ Sardella's
Niceville, FL~ Boathouse Landing Restaurant, get the pecan-crusted amberjack.
Portsmouth, NH~ Best ice cream=Annabelles @ the Waterfront.
San Francisco~La Colonial,20 Cosmos Pl. & Les Amis on Sacramento St.
San Diego~ Anthony's. The view is postcard great, order Zabaglione for dessert.
Seattle~ Pike's Place Market: best, tallest, richest, chocolate mint cupcakes EVER. And, The Crab Pot: touristey but lots of fun with a group.
St.Louis~Deirdorf's & Hart's. Superior service
Trenton, NJ~AmicideMilano.Neighborhood Italian
Vicksburg, MS~ Andre's @ Cedar Grove Mansion.
York, Me~ Ruby's=THE BEST chicken salad, don't go on Monday. Maine's closed on Mondays.
Tip #5: Always eat in local spots (not chains) and never question the cook!
If you are eating a bland burrito, you're gonna make a friend.
There is a strong work ethic in Fredericksburg, Texas matched only by the strong willingness to talk and eat. A man who won't "chew the fat and sit a spell" is cause for suspicion. If you don't have time to have a cup of coffee and visit, then you're just too stinkin' busy. "Just like a Yankee," they'd say.And if you're eatin' a Bland Burrito at Binkie's, then you're gonna make a friend.
I know, I was the bland burrito eater. Harold was the one with the Cholula hot sauce and sure as fire ants crawl on ankles, he was determined to add spice to my life.
Read the Rest of this Tip at Tip 5
Ten Essential Travel Tips
Tip #1: Stay Loyal to One Airline: Avoid the "Other Airline"
Some destinations in the Florida Panhandle are remote. Leaving the secure confines of Platinum status, I was required to endure an "Other Airline" to travel to the remoteness. OK on the inbound, but on the outboard "Other Airline" proceeded to play flight cancel roulette. They cancelled the puddle jump flight to Dallas (where I would be reunited with Platinum) after all other direct-flight air carriers had safely escorted their flyers home.Read the Rest of this Tip at Tip 1
Travel and Travel Service Information
Travel Service is NOT an oxymoron!
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Who went there, stayed there and lived to tell about it.
- Flavorpill
- Over 300 writers and editors post events in major cities such as NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Miami. Free weekly email available.
- Journeywoman
- Part coffee clatch, Part insider info. Must Click and Giggle!
- Women's Travel Writing
- Articles arranged by geographic location
- LA Brain Terrain
- "for Angelenos interested in more than just driving, flirting, and networking."
Great Books from Amazon
Keep in mind that Amazon is an international bookseller. for example, see http://www.amazon.co.uk for a better selection of local-interest books for English towns. (Yes, there are int'l shipping costs but well-worth it)
How to Travel Incognito (Prion Humour Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 11/21/2008)
202 Tips Even the Best Business Travelers May Not Know
Amazon Price: (as of 11/21/2008)
The Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status (Travelers' Tales)
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 11/21/2008)
Guerrilla Travel Tactics: Hundreds of Simple Strategies Guaranteed to Save Road Warriors Time and Money
Amazon Price: (as of 11/21/2008)
More Books to Read on the Road
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
Amazon Price: $20.00 (as of 11/21/2008)
Travel Pictures from Flickr
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Show and Ask Students to key or write a 1-2 or 3 word title
Great Stuff on CafePress
Great Escapist Titles from Amazon
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Amazon Price: $10.87 (as of 11/21/2008)
Once Upon a Time in Great Britain: A Travel Guide to the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories
Amazon Price: $14.35 (as of 11/21/2008)
Storybook Travels: From Eloise's New York to Harry Potter's London, Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children's Literature
Amazon Price: $17.10 (as of 11/21/2008)
Under the Tuscan Sun
Amazon Price: (as of 11/21/2008)
Sisterchicks in Sombreros (Sisterchicks Series #3)
Amazon Price: $10.39 (as of 11/21/2008)
iMixes to Punctuate Itineraries or Ease Absence
Add these iMixes to Your iPod
- Easing Separation
- When You Are Away From Someone You Love
- Terminal Hoppin'
- When you have to get from airport gate A1 to C39 in record time
- Valentine's Day Flight Delay
- The standby flight was full. The fog arrived. Your flight is delayed and you are worried it will probably be cancelled, leaving you on the cots in the terminal.
Don't think about it. Just breathe and listen and stare through the fog. Be thankful and know that You have someone to get home to and it will happen.
iTunes Albums for Unscheduled Delays
Update and Unplug with these artists
The titles are unintentionally, yet ironically accurate
- R.E.M., In Time
- The Fray, How to Save a Life
- Acoustic Eidolon, Simpler Times and Beyond Words
- Joshua Radin, We Were Here
- The Album Leaf, In a Safer Place
- Amos Lee, Supply and Demand
- The Calling, Things Will Go My Way
- Bryan Adams, Unplugged
And Still More Great Books on Amazon!!!
Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
Amazon Price: $11.86 (as of 11/21/2008)
Superlatives USA: The Largest, Smallest, Longest, Shortest, and Wackiest Sites in America
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 11/21/2008)
Rule 240
What Airlines Will Do for Late or Stranded Passengers
Rule 240 refers to an arbitrary rule enforced by the government BEFORE deregulation of the airlines to give passengers relief during domestic airline flight delays and cancellations.. The key word here is BEFORE deregulation. Since deregulation in 1978, all airlines have their own versions of Rule 240.
Rule 240 applies to airline:
*mechanical problems
*late arrival of an aircraft
*pilots or other crew absence
*other non-weather-related factors
It is best to carry a copy of your airlines' version of Rule 240 in case of trouble. Click on this link. to see a listing of individual airlines.
Rule 240 applies to airline:
*mechanical problems
*late arrival of an aircraft
*pilots or other crew absence
*other non-weather-related factors
It is best to carry a copy of your airlines' version of Rule 240 in case of trouble. Click on this link. to see a listing of individual airlines.
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