Buenos Dias

Buenos dias. For some reason this morning (4.30 in DC, 10.30 local time) as we were landing, I thought it was strange that that was hello in Spanish. I kept stopping myself from blurting out in Italian ‘bon giorno!’ or stumbling through questions of secuity in French: “j’ai a Malaga, q’esserai l’hoeur?” That’s definitely not [...]

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Practical Traveler Reviews Flight Meta-Search Engines

The Practical Traveler, NY Times own travel blog, has sent out a nice piece reviewing several ‘meta-search’ engine sites in the post ‘Sites That Do Your Fare Digging.’ Anyone who has asked me for travel advice has been to Kayak.com, and my new favorite TravelZoo.com. I love Kayak because it tells you where to look [...]

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Christchurch and Beyond

The last few days of my traveling have been a bit hectic. On Thursday I took a cheap bus from Dunedin to Christchurch, which was an express route as opposed to the laborious two-day trek with a stop over in Queenstown on the Stray bus. The plains were relaxing with their endlesssness and I devoured [...]

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The Official Classy Packing List

Tomorrow, I’m heading to California. I’ve spent the last 2 days trimming down my iTunes collection so it’ll fit on my iPhone and copying whatever files I want onto my flash drive. I’m doing one load of laundry tomorrow and buying a new Too Faced mascara from Sephora. So I finally figured out everything I’m [...]

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Airplane Air Pain

The day after I arrived at Shannon International Airport, Ireland back at the beginning of June, Sky News reported an Air France flight had gone missing off the coast of South America.  This was great considering my international flights were on Delta.  The two airlines have interlocked their flight plans together so closely, it can [...]

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