Over the past few years I’ve collected what I now consider to be a few travel essentials. These are items that have made traveling easier, more comfortable, and sometimes much more convenient. Hopefully some of these items can help you out during your travels.  •  Travel Docket  •  It’s basically … read more »

It was Peter’s trip to France that sparked the idea: go somewhere and actually live there. Don’t pass through a place, live in it. Live in a community for an extended period of time. Instead of touring an entire country in five days, stay a few weeks in the same town and saunter around. Take time …

For our upcoming trip to Venezuela we had to transfer some of our points acquired with our Aventura Visa to Aeroplan. I thought the process would be easy. I thought there might be a web tool or some sort of easy to fill out form. Not so.  •  To transfer your Aventura points to Aeroplan you need to …

Peter linked to ThirteenMonths.com a few days ago. Wow, what a great site!  •  The site is a written, photo, and video journal of a newly married couple's journey around the world. They've documented each place they've been, how much it costs, what equipment they've used, and much, much more. It … read more »

Air Canada announced it's "North America Unlimited Pass" today. While I like the idea the price seems to put it out of the hands of us everyday day folk.  •  The unlimited pass costs $3,499.00 CAD per month. In the small print you'll read that you have to buy a minimum of two months. So the … read more »

What’s Good:  •  Clean, Great Service, Food, Modern Jets, Price  •  What’s Bad:  •  Shifting departure times, minor boarding confusion  •  Airline website: http://www.lan.com/  •  In May of 2005 six of us traveled around Peru for a period of eighteen days. We made stops in a number of cities and …