Flights To South America For $10? London For $156?
It’s true, and here’s some other incredible travel deals I dug up from Spirit Airlines this week. Fort Lauderdale to Medellin: $9 Each Way Fort Lauderdale to Managua, Nicaragua: $9 Each Way Fort Lauderdale to San Jose, Costa Rica: $39 Each Way But who really wants to go anywhere warm and tropical during the height […]
Top 10 Beaches To Escape To This Winter
The Telegraph has come out with their “Top 10 Winter Beach Breaks,” with suggestions ranging from Sri Lanka at #1 to Zanzibar at #10. This, just in time for most people to realize they cannot even begin to afford going to any of these locations this year (see the below posting). But click the above […]
Sign Of The Times: Gap Years For The Newly Unemployed
In what may be a telling sign of the troubling economic times we are in (wow, that was such a lofty introductory clause, I should totally send in some ideas to Obama’s speechwriter) the “gap year,” or what could more accurately be described as a forced extended vacation with no visible end, are now “in” […]
The End For Cuba, Or Just The Beginning?
Fidel’s fading away, Obama’s in office, and for many, the Bay of Pigs could just as well be a description for some sort of spring break locale. As this article explores, Cuba, meanwhile, still clings to its nostalgic past, down to its vintage cars and outdated revolutionary slogans painted on building walls. For many, this […]
Travel Guide to Cartagena
Here’s the third and final video from my trip to Colombia: Cartagena. Cartagena is easily one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of Colombia’s most popular cities to visit. In this video I wander the city’s picturesque “Old Town,” visit a museum dedicated to the city’s history of inquisition and torture, […]
Top 7 Time-Lapse Videos
Last Thursday I wrote about some great travel videos being posted on my travel page on Vimeo. In that same vein, this Thursday, World Hum posted their seven favorite time-lapse videos on the web, including a cross-country trip from L.A. to NYC in four minutes, Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo at nighttime, and cruising through the […]
January: The Month NYC Becomes Cheap
Yeah you have to deal with sub-zero temperatures and arctic-like conditions in a city notoriously suited for walking, but if you plan on traveling to New York City, January’s the time to come if you’re looking to save a few bucks (and avoid other visitors). Hotels slash rates in the winter months, restaurant week (winter […]
Top 10 To-Do List For 2009 — Way Better Than 2008’s
China’s having a six-minute solar eclipse in July, Berlin’s celebrating 20 years of reunification in November, French Guiana is still amazingly diverse, and Bintan Island is emerging as the place to be among the 3,200 islands in the Riau Archipelago — take that Rempang. The other six to-do’s are kind of lame, and like most […]
Go Ahead And Splurge A Bit, You’re In Ha Long Bay
By Kyle Long Within the first five minutes of exiting the airport I got a pretty good sense of what I was going to find in Vietman. Arriving here can be a bit of a shock at first, especially if you’ve just spent the last week relaxing in some of the country’s more laid-back neighbors, […]
More Dispatches From Iceland
Not to be outdone by everyone else on the Iceland bandwagon, the NYT sent normally stodgy restaurant reviewer Frank Bruni to sample the city’s more-affordable-than-before reindeer and puffin delicacies and to check out the notoriously inebriated and long-lasting nightlife (where he managed to stay out almost past 1 a.m. to report back of hearing a […]