Romance Novels

Romance novels are a fantastic invention. Lately there has been a bit of chatter around CNN about why they’re so popular, and why women prefer their britches and boots wearing, gun handling, broody but first to arrive on the scene to help heroes to their real-life male counterparts. Plus these pocketbook paperbacks make great travel [...]

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Most Expensive Cities

 Yahoo released a list of the world’s most expensive cities today. Not surprisingly, most of them are in Japan, and the rest are in Northern Europe. Number One? Tokyo: Source. Have you been to any of these?

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Come Check Out the Oil on Our Beaches

CNN Money posted up a great gallery today with ill-conceived advertisements taking a hit on the oil spill disaster.  Apparently the travel industry isn’t the only one trying to take advantage of the situation, like this ad for Spirit Airlines. New York Sports Club released an ad saying “Exercise sharpens the brain. Oil execs come [...]

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Site Feature: Design*Sponge City Guides

Thank you Ross, Communications Career Counselor at Elon, for pointing out this awesome new site to me! Design*Sponge is a great blog that happens to have a series of city guides. I took a peek at the DC guide and was thrilled to find it neatly broken up into various popular neighborhoods: Adam’s Morgan, Dupon [...]

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Crab Meat

Working in a restaurant is neither  a classy or fabulous job. But it pays the bills, and quickly. One thing we’ve been talking about lately is the fluctuation of the price of our bluefin crab cakes. The oil spill in the Gulf Coast has already had a negative impact on the region’s fishing business, but [...]

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10 Backpacker Stereotypes

Another blog, “My Travel Adventure,” has compiled a list of 10 backpacker stereotypes. I think it’s interesting so I’m reposting the list here: 10 Backpacker Stereotypes You’ll Meet on the Road There is no doubt that having an open mind and a level of tolerance for differences in cultures is essential for any backpacker during [...]

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Sky High Wi-Fi

As I begin to set off on various modes of transportation around New Zealand, I remembered receiving email from AirTran announcing WiFi service on all flights by September 2009. Why I’m on their email list, I have no idea, but it gave me something to ruminate over. How will WiFi on airplanes change social media [...]

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