Nov
20
2008

Finding cheap airfare - tricks

Getting cheap airfare can be tricky

Ask 20 people on your plane what they paid for their ticket and you will probably get that many different answers.

Unfortunately, booking a bargain flight has become an evil puzzle which I am constantly trying to figure out. I did come across one cool new tool that helps when you are fairly flexible with your plans - as a real vagabond should be! :)

So many times when vagabonding or planning a trip, the price of a flight was more important to me than the actual destination. For instance, if I just wanted to wander Europe, I would be willing to change my port of entry to save a few hundred dollars. It makes little difference to me if I fly into Brussels, Frankfurt, or even London because of cheap budget airline options such as RyanAir that can shuttle me around for cheap or even free sometimes!

Why not save a few bucks flying into a cheaper city and then catching a budget hop to my planned destination? I basically just want to get to the continent with the cheapest airfare possible.

Here is a cool way that I have found to do that!

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Nov
05
2008

Happy Bonfire Night!

Bonfire Night

Don't even think about grinning!

Happy Bonfire Night to all my friends in the UK!

(Now why can’t we have cool holidays like that?) :)

Granted…as Dale pointed out, we do get to dress up like ghouls in October and play with explosives in July, I guess I would just like to burn an effigy of someone without having to submit myself to the Burning Man festival.  Hmmmm…..


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Nov
03
2008

Sacramento, California

Home of Arnold in Sacramento, California

Home of Arnold in Sacramento, California

The sun was just starting to get low, stretching the shadows of the palm trees and signs.

Before me was an impressive capital building, and home of the “Governator” governor Arnold - who can probably claim the biggest biceps and most confirmed kills out of any US Governor….although Governor Ventura in Minnesota might be a close second. :)

It was significantly cooler here than in Temecula, but still very pleasant. I literally hopped out of our hired Toyota SUV downtown when I saw Capital Mall and let the others go on to find our hotel. I might as well have been an 8 year old looking at a mountain of presents on Christmas - damn it feels good to be on foot in a new city!

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