Last updated Jan 8, 2021 | First published on Jan 30, 2015 | Travel Preparation
That’s exactly what I asked the Thai embassy in Chicago. And also the Postmaster General’s office. After hours on the phone with each, both disavow any knowledge of my most valued travel possession. And that’s a terrifying thing, considering that in 10 days time...
Last updated Nov 7, 2018 | First published on May 8, 2013 | Travel Preparation
This is what booking tickets often feels like. Ask everyone on a flight what they paid and you’ll get a different answer from nearly every passenger. Tell people that your ticket cost less than theirs and you probably won’t make many new friends. But why?...
Last updated Nov 7, 2018 | First published on May 8, 2013 | Travel Preparation
I’ve gotten a lot of practice booking cheap flights over the last seven years of crossing both the Pacific and the Atlantic. Amazingly, I’ve gone back and forth so many times now that some of the immigration guys even recognize me when I return to the U.S....
Last updated Nov 7, 2018 | First published on Feb 14, 2012 | Travel Preparation
“Guys, Valentine’s Day is not that complicated — give, and you shall receive.” The now-famous words from Adriana Lima in Teleflora’s Super Bowl Commercial had guys across America adjusting their pants after her getting-dolled-up routine....
Last updated May 20, 2020 | First published on Jan 24, 2012 | Travel Preparation
Finding cheap domestic flights is perhaps even more of a dark art than getting a good deal on international flights for me lately. I’d rather pay a hefty sum to cross the Atlantic or Pacific than the same amount to bound across a few only semi-interesting...
Last updated Nov 7, 2018 | First published on Jul 1, 2011 | Travel Preparation
For two months I have been telling people that I was leaving the U.S. finally, although I wasn’t sure when. I was met with half belief. Hell, I half believed it myself. As we learned after countless false alarms in the Army: it isn’t really happening until...
