Travel photo blog

The newest marketing scheme to separate car travelers from their money: facilities that, usually for a fee, will fill your tires with not just plain old compressed air but nitrogen gas. Some charge $5 per tire, some as much as $25. Some do it for free if you buy the tires from them, but the expense is doubtless factored into the cost of the tires.

More: continued here

Like it or not, houseguests happen. But you can make their stay comfortable, fun and easier on everyone if you know how to provide simple but effective services just like great hotels do. Amy Bradley-Hole gives some advice.

More: continued here

In one sense, travel is about preventing stuff from coming undone. I travel with ten feet of light-gauge (7.5 mm) rope in, and a carabiner on, my rucksack, and have done since I took off for college in Europe about a billion years ago.

More: continued here

What if I told you a secret that could cut the cost of your next plane ticket in half? Or get you upgraded into a better room or car, pay less for your restaurant meal, even help you zip through the security line? Too good to be true, you say? Nope. If you travel enough, you’ll discover these money-saving strategies, and you’ll use them, and you probably won’t share them with anyone else because, well, if everyone knew, then …

More: continued here