NYT Travel Show: Post 2 (ComicCon v. The Civilized World)
After about five minutes of waiting in a line that stretched from one end to the other of the massive lobby of the Javits Center, I overheard the guy behind me say, “I was thinking of wearing my ‘1985 Pac-Man Champion’ t-shirt today, but it was way too dirty.” “Maybe this is the wrong line,” […]
TheExpeditioner.com Live From The New York Times Travel Show: February 6th – 8th
Yes, it’s that time of year again. It felt like just yesterday that I was rolling out of bed at 7 a.m. on a frigid Friday morning and making my way into that forgotten section of Manhattan known as the Far West Side, past the long lines of eager nerds waiting to get in to […]
Insider’s Guide To Retro London
London’s experienced a massive facelift and identity transformation brought on by the influx of banking money and globalization, but there are still a few spots around town where you can get a whiff (quite literally) of a London of yesteryear, or at least maybe a London you can kind of imagine as filtered through Harry […]
Fly To Asia For Next To Nothing
Well, maybe not nothing, but there are some insane deals right now for flights across the Pacific. I don’t know what it is with American lately, but they’ve been practically giving away seats this winter (remember last week’s deals to South America?). Good news for travelers, perhaps bad news for the company. They’re offering flights […]
2009: The Year (Finally) For Traveling With The Dollar
I know that I’ve somewhat been harping on this whole dollar-is-good-to-travel-with-again story for a while now, but for all those readers outside of Obamaland, at least let us Americans revel in this for at least a little while before it inevitably ends (ahem — bank bailouts, deficit spending, etc…). Don’t forget how we’ve spent the […]
Looking To Experience The Real Central America? Head To Guatemala
These days, it’s more than likely that you’re going to be around many other travelers when you’re in Central and South America. But as Anna points out in this article, Guatemala offers a rare opportunity to see and experience a culture that “remains remarkably untouched by modernity.” In the South you can visit Tikal, one […]
How To Never Pay An ATM Fee Again While Traveling
I remember hearing the NYT’s Matt Gross a/k/a “The Frugal Traveler” a/k/a Moby’s traveling doppelganger mention this ridiculously amazing travel advice during a talk last Fall: if you like being nailed $5 for every cash withdrawal you make abroad and paying exorbitant special interest rates for international purchases, don’t change your bank. But if you […]
Booze And Showers: The Perfect In-Flight Combo?
In what may be a glaring relic of the Gilded Age the world is quickly putting behind itself, or in what may be just the natural progression in the evolution of air travel, the new A380’s up and running, allowing passengers to partake in that oh-so-rare in-flight shower and the ability to kick back a […]
Searching For Bliss In The Land Of Shangri-La
By Lizzie Simon On my last night in the Yunnan Province in rural Southwest China, I encountered three handsome, blond horses lingering at the entrance of my reconstructed Tibetan lodge. They had wandered in from one of the neighboring Naxi tribe’s wheat farms. I had spent the entire week making contact with exotica, and that […]
Turks & Caicos Is For Snorkelers
Providenciales, the main island in this chain of over 40 that make up the Turks and Caicos Islands, may be feeling some growing pains from its recent expansion into the luxury travel market, but a little economic recession can only mean good things for those looking to take advantage of one of the best spots […]