Originally posted September 6, 2010 on Travelskills.blogspot.com. ****************************************************** Tomorrow I (and many others) begin a month of travel using JetBlue‘sAll-You-Can-Fly pass. One destination I want to visit is New York City. That is convenient, since New York’s JFK airport is a JetBlue hub and their HQ. Some say New York City is the greatest city in the world. I recently … Continue reading
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8 Great Ways to Find Free Lodging for Travel
Recently there has been an uptick of travel articles about house sitting. As if house sitting is a newly discovered process for reducing (or eliminating) your lodging expenses. Here are eight other ways (not including house sitting) to pay no money on lodging when you travel. House Swapping. If you own a house, condo, etc., … Continue reading
8 Great Ways to Creatively Stick to a Cheap Travel Budget
In the late 1980s, I began taking extended sabbaticals to travel around the United States and then, in the 1990s, the world. My longest break was from June 1993 through October 1994. My goal was to stick to a budget of $25 a day. Whether my budget was defined or not, $25 or more or … Continue reading
Travel Lessons From a Guinea Pig
Yesterday I took our family guinea pig pet, Slinky, outside for “grass time.” Slinky LOVES to eat grass. That is probably his favorite thing in the world. However, Slinky was hesitant to eat the grass yesterday. He was completely protected. I was right next to him. He was covered by his cage top and his little wooden … Continue reading
To App or Not To App
In Old School Trip Planning, I said that I would not use any apps on my trip to Morocco. How did I do? Well, I succeeded. I visited Morocco without using apps and made it home in one piece. I did pre-trip research in guidebooks and online, so I had a basic plan for my … Continue reading
Cheap Hotels? How about FREE lodging?
Finding hotel discounts is great. Even better is FREE lodging. Indeed, you can travel anywhere in the world and drastically cut or even eliminate lodging expenses. How does that sound? I have known about Couchsurfing for many years but finally decided to participate on my recent trip to Morocco. Couchsurfing Basics Couchsurfing (CS) has over … Continue reading
8 Great Travel Lessons
I just returned from a short trip to Morocco and Madrid. I did not have to travel thousands of miles to learn these lessons but the trip helped reinforce them. Limit Research. Too much planning results in less fun. Be spontaneous. See what happens. Before the trip, I spent too much time reading guidebooks and … Continue reading
McCool Travel Tips: 5 Minutes With Melvin Boecher, TravelDudes.org
McCool Travel is excited to present tips from travel experts in our 5 Minutes interview series featuring travel industry giants, super frequent travelers, and adventurous persons. For the eighth profile, I am thrilled to present Melvin Boecher–Founder, Owner, and Editor of the popular travel website TravelDudes.org. Melvin lives in Köln (Cologne), Germany, where I reached … Continue reading
#1 Tip for Saving Money on Lodging
In a previous post, I said that there is one travel tip that will help you save money (and have more fun)–on EVERY trip. To recap: #1 Travel Tip for Saving Money *** Be FLEXIBLE *** I will assume that your destination and dates of travel are fixed (because you probably found a great airfare). … Continue reading
JetBlue All You Can Jet (AYCJ) Pass
My AYJC pass starts out with the shuttle ride at IAD, where I met the pilot of my first flight and another fellow AYJCer, Drew Lawrence. While most people (including me) are using the JetBlue pass for fun, Drew is on a mission. Drew wants to raise awareness about cancer, inspired by his mother’s death … Continue reading
