Everyone who has an Instagram and visits Chicago has to do the same thing…head to Millennium Park and take a picture with one of the biggest tourist traps in America these days. It used to be on road trips visiting the largest rubber band ball or the world’s best ceramic cow, but now it’s that …
The magic of Magic Kingdom is supposed to start before you even walk in the door…a place that can only be reached by special transport, either a monorail or ferry. But the Magic of a ferry is dampened by the fact that it ends so far away…as the ferry brought me to the Transportation Center, …
One of my more popular travel posts, and the one that is most open and revealing, is my cost breakdowns of my trips, so that you can see if you can do it, or try parts of it. Here are previous editions from Niagara, Virginia, and San Diego. Below are Attractions, Hotels, and Gas Costs …
Hertz thru AAA is the way to book your car, as I’ve said before, but here are a couple of other things I noticed on my recent trip: I booked my car about 6-7 weeks out, and during the subsequent weeks, the prices fluctuated, even within the AAA discount. Thankfully Hertz lets you “change your reservation” …
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum, located in Balboa Park, in the basement of one of the many buildings on El Prado. To me it felt like a shorter/smaller version of Northlandz, the NJ museum featured in Wired magazine last year, albeit it was 100X cleaner and with a lot more employees. They advertise as …
CNN ran an article recently on how to travel if you are young and broke. And while it was written by a fellow millennial, I think that this is a bad list, and unreasonable for most young people, especially if they don’t have tons of money (which is who it’s geared for). Here are some …
Over the last few months, for the price of a subway ride ($2.75), New York City has launched the NYC Ferry service. This ferry is a huge help to the Rockaways, which previously had been a long trip to the city (over 70 minutes by train) is now just under an hour by ferry. The …
The hardest part for me when planning a vacation is figuring out where to go. I’ll hem and haw for a while, but when I finally nail down a location, I am pedal to the metal planning it out, from A-to-Z. In the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about where to go this year, …
Disclaimer: This is not just limited to Priceline/Expedia/Kayak/etc and likely applies to all travel sites, but a little look behind the curtains of how these companies get you the cheapest rates in town. When you go to book your hotel, some people are smart and shop around before booking. If you don’t try too hard and …
The Inner Harbor in Baltimore is a great spot to see for a little taste of ships throughout American history. The USS Constellation (1855), lightship Chesapeake (1930), US Coast Guard Cutter Taney (1936) and the USS Torsk submarine (1944) can all be seen for $18, and it gives you a nice taste of how our …
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