As if you needed yet another reason to avoid flying, right? I haven’t flown in almost 3 years now, choosing instead to take Amtrak or even drive rather than step foot inside an airport. Every airline, except Southwest, now charges at least $15 to check a single bag aboard your flight – which is [...]
It’s that getting to be that time again – time to fill up the highways, airports, and railways with people on their way to visit relatives for the holidays. I took off last week via car to the east coast and made it with no problems, right before the blizzard hit. Good thing I [...]
As of June 1, 2009, passports or new passport cards will be required for land and sea, as well as air, travel to and from the United States. (Passport cards not acceptable for air travel) This includes visits to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, most of the Caribbean and 16 other countries. You used to [...]
Sure, there are not that many places left where the American dollar is strong anymore, but according to Money Magazine, if you look hard enough you can find faraway locales where your dollar will go further. You won’t be going to Paris or London, but you can still have a nice vacation if you are [...]
In order to fly anywhere at this point in history, you have to show up 2 hours early, bring nothing with you, be manhandled by security, and pay through the nose in order to get a seat. On top of that, the airlines now charge you $15 per bag that you want to check, [...]
I have been considering picking up a wireless internet card for my laptop for a while now, so I can be connected anywhere we go without having to worry about wi-fi hotspots. The cards themselves are free from most providers, but several of them do not offer unlimited access – they cap you at [...]
This post is a part of the M-Network’s group project series on vacations. Check out the other M-Network blogs for more.
Unless you are “staycationing” at home this summer due to the incredibly high (and somewhat travel-prohibitive) gas prices, you might be on the lookout for the cheapest hotel, car rental, vacation package and airfare [...]
This post is a part of the M-Network’s group project series on vacations. Check out the other M-Network blogs for more.
Ever since I was a child I wanted to take the train across the country. I imagined it was an old steam engine, chugging along slowly as it crossed the mountains and the plains, [...]
While it has nothing to do with my personal finances, I am guessing there are some of you out there who are golf fans who would be interested in seeing some pictures of Trump National in Palos Verdes, CA. Turns out that in order to build the place Trump had to leave a ton [...]
Since this is a very recent purchase, I cannot say that I knew about this money mistake until just last week…but now I know I should have done it a long time ago! Before we left on our week-long yurting trip up north, we decided to look around to see how much a cooler [...]
Because we are away camping this week, the following is a guest post from Madison over at My Dollar Plan. If you like what you see here, won’t you consider subscribing to her feed?
Taking time off and traveling is fun, relaxing and sometimes stressful. Planning ahead and getting your finances in order before you travel [...]
You want it, you got it…after mentioning that my wife and I were taking the train across the country over the holidays, I got a bunch of emails asking for a review and/or pictures of the trip so I figured I would put something up. (Some of you might have seen most of this [...]
Just to let everyone know, this will be the last post until New Years Day, as we are getting back on the train today to head back to Los Angeles. I have had incredibly limited internet access while I was away, and even this post is being typed on my phone. So please [...]
Well, we are off today on our grand adventure. And as long as we don’t get stuck in the Rockies somewhere in a snow storm, some robbers don’t show up on horseback and rob us, and the train doesn’t run out of gas, we should make it to Chicago in 39 hours.
39 hours. On [...]
