I haven’t done a column for quite a while about TSA Security Lines at airports. It’s not that I am finding less to bitch about. Au contraire as the snail eaters would gutturally say. It’s just that I’ve been fortunate enough to have not been traveling for the past few months and just recently...
What’s more American than finding a good deal? Travelzoo offers them up all the time and was the recent inspiration for a deal we booked Sunday – four nights in Tulum, Mexico, in February. Hey, everyone deserves a sun holiday during the heart of winter. So take a look and see what long weekend...
Delta Airlines announced this week that it is working with the TSA that it is expanding its TSA Pre program. This is that snazzy deal that lets you almost act like a human going through normal security — you can leave you shoes on, your jacket on, your computer in its computer bag and...
Of the millions of passengers going through security check points at airports around the country, many are leaving behind a few things, pens, pencils, $400,000 in loose change. The TSA is reporting that every year, all of those pennies people toss into those plastic bins and leave behind has become an annual budget windfall....
Driving either short or long distances can sometimes be boring. Furthermore, it gives one a plethora of things to bellyache about. For instance, being boxed in by heavy traffic, a blazing sun trying to laser you with rays, the brake lights on the vehicle ahead sending out message in Morse code, etc. Citing these...
So the TSA has finally decided to see how much radiation its employees have been exposed to, even though its machines are perfectly safe, according to numerous news reports. Of course, the machines are safe, it’s the silly TSA officers who are the ones who may finally get a dose of reality. The TSA...
We’ve all experienced the lines, the wait and the flurry of grabbing our items off the conveyor belt after going through security at the airport. Apparently, we’re so rushed we leave behind that little bowl of whatever we had shoved in our pocket. Annually, that comes to about $400,000 per year. And, that money...
Because it’s the start of a new year every publication has a column about writers’ wish lists for the coming year. Some are totally unreachable, like “I wish for world peace.” (You have a better chance of waking up and seeing Lady Gaga in your bed – or Ellen DeGeneres…your call.) Or, “I would...
The new year also marks the beginning of new laws around the country. And because states rights come into play, there are all kinds of laws around the country. All told, about 40,000 new laws take effect this January. Good luck keeping up, as something you were doing on New Year’s Eve is now...
It’s been a weeks since HTG has been up and running. There was an error in our database that some how magically appeared. Apparently, that can happen from time to time, though we have no idea how any of it went down. What we do know is that we travel, not write code. And...
It was bound to happen: Airplanes and RV’s now share something in common: Seats that fold out into beds. It’s innovative, and certainly interesting that two people can fold out three seats into a little bed-like structure for those long flights to and from New Zealand — as every flight to this little sheep...
Full disclosure; I’m on the sunny-side of my late-60s and have been traveling steadily for probably 50 of those years. Consequently I have seen the inside of hundreds, if not thousands of hotel rooms. Some are memorable; most are not. They generally carry a common theme: an extra roll of toilet paper in addition...
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