Archive for July, 2006
« Previous EntriesCheap Airfare - Hitchhike Across the Atlantic
Sunday, July 30th, 2006During one of my seemingly endless search periods with Google, I found a best friend for any budget traveler planning to fly to Europe: Airhitch. Airhitch.org is an organization that lets you “hitchhike” flights accross the Atlantic, if you are willing to be flexible with your dates and European destinations. Signing up with airhitch [...]
My hop over to the Black Hills of South Dakota
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Well, this weekend will be heading out to West River, South Dakota. This will be close to my twenty-ninth visit to the area, because I have a family event to attend. More specifically, I will be going to Spearfish.
So now that I’m talking about the area, I thought I would give a little guide [...]
Base Backpacker and Beyond Backpackers Merger
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006Australasia’s popular hostel chains Base Backpacker and Beyond Backpackers have merged to join the largest private hostel chain. The new, combined hostel group will take on the name Base. This private hostel chain now has 3000 beds, 10 bars, and 34 travel outlets throughout Australia and New Zealand. These hostels are very popular [...]
Best and Worst online airline awards
Monday, July 24th, 2006Jaunted.com has an amusing post on the best and worst online airline booking. Titled the Site Scramble 2nd round of awards , they have awards as following:
Best overall: Jet Blue
Worst overall: Spirit
Coolest Features: Frontier
Worst Features: all of them
“Still Makes Us Laugh”: Spirit
Also mentioned was Southwest Airlines. Definitely check out their post linked [...]
The Frugal Traveler experiment
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006I just recently started following NY Times’ Frugal Traveler. Matt Gross, aka the Frugal Traveler is attempting to travel around the world in 90 days, “on the cheap.” So what is the budget at? $40 a day? $65 a day?
No, His budget is no more than $100 a day for rooms, and $40 [...]
About Me
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006Hey - I just created an about me page on the sidebar to the right. Check it out if you want more info on my travel plans/aspirations. It includes my immediate future travel plans, and my top 10 list of travel destinations and backpacking trips. The list will probably change though, as I continue my [...]
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