This is the second time I’ve had to write something this in less than a month, following Scott Hutchison’s death in May. Someone who I’d never met, yet had a profound impact on my life, has taken theirs. Anthony Bourdain is the patron saint of most every traveler, especially those of us who write & […]
Will Ferrell made his return to Saturday Night Live tonight, and as usual when he’s on the show, everything he did was pretty great. One of the highlights of tonight’s SNL was a sketch making fun of Southwest Airlines & their overly-positive flight attendants who always try to be entertaining. As the other two flight […]
Tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live was hosted by actress Saoirse Ronan, with U2 as the musical guest. Needless to say, it was a very Irish show. The final sketch of the night was about a flight on Ireland’s Aer Lingus. Now traditionally this last sketch is known as the “10 to 1” sketch. Since […]
While visiting trendy, technologically-advanced Seoul, it’s easy to forget that just an hour away lies an entirely different world across one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world, the South Korean border with North Korea. The two countries have remained in a standoff since the end of the Korean War in 1953. No treaty was ever […]
It feels like the news is going at 200mph these days, so there’s a lot that we are missing that is falling through the cracks. Last night, John Oliver & the Last Week Tonight team meant to devote a large segment of the show to the TSA. Presumably, it was going to be about how […]
Interstate 80 is one of the great road trip highways in the United States. Stretching from San Francisco to just outside of New York City, it was one of the original routes of the Interstate Highway System. Prior to that, it was roughly the route the original Lincoln Highway. As such, it plays an important role in […]
Tom Hanks hosted Saturday Night Live last night, and as usual, he did a great job with the show. With Sully having recently been released, it was natural that SNL would have Hanks play airline pilot Sully Sullenberger in a sketch. The SNL sketch also featured Alec Baldwin, who has been killing it as Donald Trump […]
After eating as much dim sum as possible at Tim Ho Wan, I headed back toward the area I was staying in. I needed to switch hotels because I had stayed for one night in a Holiday Inn in order to qualify for an IHG promotion, but had a cheaper hotel for most of the […]
When you’re traveling, it’s easy to look at reviews for hotels & know the level of quality you are going to get. However, with car rental companies, quality can vary widely between brands, and even within brands. Rarely do I seem to have a good experience when I’m renting a car, which is why I […]
One of the main reasons why I have always wanted to go to New Zealand is the scenery, and it’s this scenery that also led to one of my other reasons for wanting to go to New Zealand: The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed here. I usually opt to explore on my own […]
Here are your travel contests for this week. There are tons of really cool prizes out there this week. You can win trips to the Maldives; Glasgow, Scotland; New York City; Santa Barbara, California; a Downton Abbey trip to England; Coachella; one of 3 tours from TourRadar; Thailand; Austin, Texas; Tanzania; San Diego, California; Palm […]
This is a travel site (albeit one that happens to have its name taken from a song by Pulp), but if you’re like me, you listen to a lot of music while you’re traveling. Each year I keep a list of my favorite albums, and I thought I’d share my list from 2015 here. If […]
Nathan For You is one of the funniest shows on television right now, provided you have the right sort of sense of humor. Comedian & business school graduate Nathan Fielder goes to various businesses giving them advice on how to better market themselves. The ideas on the Comedy Central show are always creative, always bizarre, […]
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is in the middle of a worldwide tour promoting the final “Hunger Games” movie. As pampered as we may think Hollywood people are, it’s seriously exhausting work, between travel, time changes, and constant interviews where you’re asked the same questions over-and-over. Jennifer Lawrence visited Conan and talked about how she managed to dislocate her […]
Last night, Amy Schumer hosted Saturday Night Live. Early in the show, she starred in a sketch with Vanessa Bayer & Taran Killam where all 3 played Delta flight attendants along with passenger Kenan Thompson. Overall, it was a pretty weak SNL episode, with this Delta sketch being right in the middle of the pack […]
