Can’t decide whether you need to fly or drive? There’s no reason you should have to figure out this simple little question. Try out the Fly or Drive calculator on BeFrugal.com. (Good luck using it as well, as it crashed the HTG Mac Powerbook three times before we stopped trying it.) When it does...
Ah, the punitive pat down — it’s not even my favorite subject any more. But today, as I was going through the security line, I knew I was going to have to do it. I find the overbearing security both unnecessary and inappropriate. I also think they are a violation of my constitutional rights....
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You know what Capt. Kirk said about space — and rarely do we not talk about travel on here. But in this case, history is unfolding right before our eyes as the ultimate explorers fly high overhead. They are the Columbus, the Magellan of our time — and those cats were some serious travelers....
Live long enough and you’ll be subjected to a lot of depressing circumstances. Most will involve standing in line at some point. For instance, there’s the unemployment line –since eliminated by do-gooders making it easy on recently-dumped employees by letting them register and check in on a state website (or so I’m told. I...
Southwest Airlines is the best airline for frequent fliers, a new survey revealed this week. The survey by ezRez Reward Seat Availability Survey looked into what airlines were the best at granting reward seats to frequent fliers and Southwest ranked the best in the US — while US Airways ranked the worst — with...
Add another city to Virgin America’s itinerary. The California-based airline has started landing in Chicago’s O’Hare with nonstop flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Naturally, the first day of flying to the Windy City arrived with as much fanfare as it can muster — which, if you know anything about Virgin — is...
What was once deemed crazy, impossible, and impossibly crazy was made reality this past weekend—a human bird/plane flew across the Grand Canyon. On Saturday, Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy, a.k.a. “JetMan”, completed his long-awaited dream flight with his custom-made jet-propelled wing pack over the Grand Canyon, flying up to speeds of 190 miles-per-hour before deploying...
Finally real security theater — sure it’s a dark seedy one with sticky floors, but, hey, the show much go on. Larry Flint — a free speech champion and smut peddler — has created a TSA porn flick that will at least put a humorous happy ending to the movie titled “TSA: Your ass...
You arrive back from your week-long Euro-cation with tons of photos, enough tchotchkes to fill a new house, and an angry rash in an unmentionable. Your trip was everything you wished it could be, save the snaking line that is U.S. Customs, with two agents on duty to process a plane full of three...
