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Travel More By Tossing Out Your Soap or Shampoo
January 18, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
While we don’t necessarily expect this to become a growing travel trend, a young traveler has reported what he calls a “success” after going 18 months without using soap or shampoo. According to Boing Boing, Sean Bonner underwent an 18-month experiment, in which he only used water when...
New Yorker Takes On Latest Snowpocalypse With Skis
January 18, 2011 | Active/Outdoors, Offbeat, Travel News | Read More
Few sights rival seeing New York City covered by a blanket of fresh white snow. One of those things, however, is seeing New York City covered by a blanket of fresh white snow and seeing a New Yorker use Park Avenue like it’s Lake Placid. As NYC was inundated with fresh powder, one lone daredevil...
Future of Travel: Toothpaste That Changes with the Weather
January 18, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Have you ever been standing at your hotel sink, brushing your teeth, and thought to yourself: “What if they made a toothpaste that changed flavors when the weather changes?” No? Yeah we haven’t either, but a few MIT students did, and it makes you wonder what they’ll think of next.
As...
American Airlines Fights Back With Smiles
January 18, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
So far 2011 hasn’t been a great year for American Airlines. Due to the airline’s new Direct Connect model, big flight booking sites like Expedia and Orbitz have pulled American Airlines from their listings. The latest word on the streets is that they’re also going to be dropped by Sabre in August,...
Anne Moellering
January 14, 2011 | Team | Read More
Anne is a seasoned marketer with 20+ years experience across various online, video game, and sports related businesses. Most recently, she was Chief Marketing Officer at TaskRabbit, and has worked at Gay.com, Fogdog Sports, Sega of America, and Bain & Company. She graduated magna cum laude with a...
Usman Khan
January 14, 2011 | Team | Read More
Born in Chicago, raised in the Washington, DC area, and currently residing in San Francisco, Usman’s real home is in the back of a 737. Blessed with the good fortune of being the son of a former airline industry executive, he spent much of his youth flying for free across the globe, developing...
22 Dogs in Regional Costumes That Border on Distasteful
January 14, 2011 | Featured | Read More
Internet, thank you. Just when we were worried the cultural splendor that keeps traveling fun was diminishing, we found these pictures. Dogs dressed up as peoples from across the globe.
We didn’t bring these pictures together to make a stand about cultural relativism or even to highlight how creepy...
The New York City You’ll Never See
January 13, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Many would call it the most popular and most visited destination in the world; and there’s a certain ambiance and experience behind a visit to New York City that you’ll find in few other places. Some of the most quintessential landmarks in the world can be found in the Big Apple, from Central...
Tall Man Forced to Stand… For an Entire Flight
January 13, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
In the latest airline soap opera, it would appear that pregnant women and overweight people aren’t the only ones that are in a pinch when it comes to airplane seats. This most recent tale is a little different than the norm, as this passenger was actually too tall to fit in the seat. This certainly...
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