We’re getting close to the end of the year (can you believe it?) so I’ve been getting tons of emails from readers who don’t want to lose the value of…

Lisa Farbstein, the TSA spokesperson tweeted the other day that the “TSA expects pre-pandemic travel levels for Christmas/New Year’s holiday period.” I’ve been monitoring TSA checkpoint traffic and it appears…

Can you believe it’s happened again? When will passengers put their masks on (properly), sit down, stop drinking too much booze and just shut up? It doesn’t seem to be…

I’m a pretty practical packer. Especially now that I have kids. But even before I was a mom, I’d learned the benefits of being a streamlined, organized packer (I was…

I was supposed to be sending today’s newsletter from an epic, family-friendly California road trip. We were going from the beach to the mountains to wine country to the desert,…

Bad news for budget travelers, especially those who fly Delta Air Lines because they just made a major change and I hope other carriers don’t follow suit. According to The…

If you subscribe to my free newsletter, then you know I go to great lengths to be prepared for anything and have all kinds of safety gadgets that I use…

I recently received this question from a reader: “I have a question about the Clear program. I signed up and paid for it online and now need to do the…

In 2019, cellular phone companies began replacing 4G networks with 5G — the fifth generation technology for broadband cellular networks. You would think that when the telecom companies update and…

Starbucks and Alaska Airlines have a fantastic promotion, which ends tonight. As Alaska Airlines stated in an email to their mailing list: “The holidays are merrier when you’re together, so…

A friend of mine from California just flew to New York City for a conference at the Jacob Javits Conference Center. When he arrived at the conference center, he was…

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George Clooney is making headlines today after telling The Guardian that an airline offered him $35 million dollars to shoot a commercial, which would take just one day to film,…

On November 26, the WHO (World Health Organization) stunned the world when they alerted that Omicron had been identified in South Africa. They wrote, “this variant has a large number…

One day, my wife came home from seeing some friends and said they were all raving about the Omni Hotel in Carlsbad because it’s so family friendly. I’d never heard…