Archive for Transportation

View from Condor flight

Flying Across the Atlantic With Condor Airlines

Despite having promised myself dozens of times over the years to never book a flight, bus or train that required me to set my alarm for anything earlier than 6:00am (early morning is not my favorite time of day), I … Read more

Cup of Coffee

How To Spend Your First 20 Minutes In A New Country

Coffee? You’ll see. So, your flight lands. You walk off the plane and proceed to the Immigration lines. You receive your entry stamp in your passport. You collect your luggage from the luggage carousel and you walk through the Customs … Read more

Kiribati, South Pacific

My New Travel Plans: 27,000 Miles In 39 Days

One minute I think I’m staying in Bucharest for a couple of months in order to finish some projects I’m working on and the next minute I have seven flight reservations made, two of which will take me over the … Read more

Predejma Castle, Slovenia

The Final Ride: My European Trip Comes To An End

When I went to reserve my seat on what would be my tenth and final train journey of my recent European Eurail Adventure, the woman behind the ticket counter seemed quite confused when I requested a seat on what was … Read more

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Announcing My European Eurail Itinerary

I have spent the past three and a half days in a crazed, super-energized state of being in which I have barely been able to sit still for more than nine seconds at a time. Four hours of sleep became … Read more

Prague, Czech Republic

Traveling To Europe Next Week & I Need Your Help!

For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you’re probably well aware of how poor of a planner I truly am. My plans are constantly changing, even at the last minute when there appears to … Read more

Air Turbulence

Air Turbulence: The Older I Get, The More It Makes Me Cry

Let me start off by thanking every one of you who left a suggestion in the comments of my last post (and in emails) about where I should travel next. I really wasn’t expecting such enthusiastic recommendations and every single … Read more

Train Journey

The Ultimate Train Challenge: Portugal to Vietnam By Rail

Towards the end of this coming August, I shall board a flight bound for Lisbon. This will not be my first visit to Portugal’s capital city, but it will be the first time I travel there not as a crew … Read more

Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines: This Post Is For You

On Thursday afternoon, I picked up my mom from the airport in Cancun. She was coming to Mexico for a quick holiday and even though her JetBlue flight had arrived 3 hours late, she was in quite a happy mood … Read more

Bats-Flying-Sydney

Air Travel Tricks I’ve Recently Learned

As travelers trying to stretch every dollar we have, it only becomes natural that we should try and find the absolute cheapest airfare we possibly can when it comes time for us to fly somewhere. As a result, I’m sure … Read more