What to Do & Not Do When You Get Home After a Wildfire It’s been a rough week for both Northern and Southern California, with deadly wildfires (see them on maps here) and the senseless murders in Thousand Oaks. I live near LAX… Johnny Jet , November 12, 2018
Bring Chip Clips With You Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader Ray F., who says: “I travel with chip clips for… Johnny Jet , November 9, 2018
Don’t take sleeping pills for the first time on a plane I’ve never taken a sleeping pill, and I don’t recommend doing so as I’m not a doctor. But if your doctor does prescribe you a sleeping pill—for a long flight,… Johnny Jet , November 8, 2018
When You Should Wake a Sleeping Baby TODAY ran a difficult but important segment recently, sharing the heartbreaking story of Lisa Smith’s 17-month-old daughter. Little Mia fell asleep in her carseat after an outing with her caregiver… Johnny Jet , November 7, 2018
Lessons on Avoiding Travel Scams From James McAvoy Actor James McAvoy made the news last week when he turned to Instagram to share how he almost got scammed out of $12,000+ while planning a family vacation to Spain…. Johnny Jet , November 5, 2018
Eat Before You Get to the Airport Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader Frederick, who says: “I’m sure somebody has covered this topic… Johnny Jet , November 2, 2018
Bring Home Foreign Candy to Give to Trick-or-Treaters Happy Halloween! Today’s tip—inspired by the holiday—is one for travelers that want to provide for their local trick-or-treaters (next year)… If you travel internationally before and especially right before Halloween,… Johnny Jet , October 31, 2018
How to Find Out How Safe a Country’s Airlines Are After the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 near Jakarta on Monday, the New York Times ran an interesting story titled “How Safe Is Your Airline?” It turns out that… Johnny Jet , October 31, 2018
How to Troubleshoot Your T-Mobile International Data Plan Abroad One of the things I love about my T-Mobile data plan is that I get free texting and data abroad in 140 countries around the world. Since I go to… Johnny Jet , October 30, 2018
Confirm Your Hotel Booking With the Hotel Before You Leave Travel blogger Ric Garrido recently wrote an interesting post about a trip he took to Romania, which began as a nightmare. Essentially, Ric arrived at his hotel—booked through Booking.com—to find… Johnny Jet , October 29, 2018
Bring a Carabiner to Help Keep Your Luggage Secure Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader James M., who says: “I keep a carabiner of the… Johnny Jet , October 26, 2018
What Airline Should You Fly When Traveling with a Surfboard? Surf’s up! If you hadn’t seen, on August 20, surfing became California’s official state sport. Since we have a lot of subscribers from California, I thought it would appropriate to… Johnny Jet , October 25, 2018
Look Out for Two-in-One Crosswalks Following yesterday’s tip on looking both ways before crossing the street… What always throws me for a loop in Europe—and specifically London and Paris—is that on wider streets there are… Johnny Jet , October 23, 2018
Always Look Both Ways When I was growing up, my parents instilled in me the instinct to always look left, right and then left again before crossing any street. Well, I just returned from… Johnny Jet , October 22, 2018
Get to Know the Hotel Shower Before You Hop in Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader Benita, who left the following comment on last week’s airplane… Johnny Jet , October 19, 2018
