Finding Flights, The Old-Fashioned Way
Ah, we all want to know how to get good deals on flights, yes?
How to Play the Airline Miles Game
I am a 30-year-old woman with an arts degree and some geographic commitment issues, so for much of my adult life, I’ve been in situations where I’ve earned unimpressive amounts of money, but have needed (or wanted) to fly to places semi-regularly.
Rebooking A Cancelled Flight
Sometimes, your flight gets cancelled the night before you're supposed to fly out to watch your friends get married, and you have scramble and call the airline (in my case, Delta), to get yourself on to another flight.
A Guide to International Cheap Eats
Billfold pal and prolific world traveler Jodi Ettenberg has been working on a book about discovering and learning how to make delicious cheap food from different countries she's visited, and she wants to share her findings with you.
Television Show Inspires Conflicting Feelings
The colors and the foods and the descriptions and the vistas and the cinematography are always so beautiful that I'm always like, ugh, why do I have to live in this ugly country?
What I Spent On My Vacation: Ecuador Edition
My best friend Anne and I had been craving a real international vacation for a while. Our last one had been Ireland in 2009, and we were feeling the itch. After holding out for Spain for a while, and watching European flights stay out of our price range, we stumbled upon a deal for an eight-day tour through Ecuador. Neither of us had been to South America, and after getting a thumbs-up from a co-worker who’s from Quito, we decided to go for it.
After paying for the tour and flight in June, I hoped to spend, and subsequently save, around $700 on the trip in September, including cabs, luggage, souvenirs and any extra meals and drinks.
Being a part of a tour group was a new experience for both Anne and me. We were with a group of 31, plus our bus driver Ivan and our tour guide Alfredo. The group was made up mostly of people age 50 or older, including several generations of a huge family from California who wanted to take pictures, and strike a pose in said pictures, of everything. Seriously. Everything. There were two cousins in their late 20s who only talked to each other, three hardcore outdoorsy Wisconsinites, and a couple from Chicago who quickly became our tour friends.
LAX to Fulfill Basic Human Right, Finally
LAX is getting rid of the pay-to-play joke of an internet connection it has now and will begin to offer free wireless on July 16th.
