travel planning

Over the years, we’ve booked numerous hotels and often face the decision of whether to choose the advance purchase rate or the best refundable rate. Hotels usually offer a lower …

In economics class, I learned about the Law of Diminishing Returns. In short, it says that after a certain point, additional effort will yield less returns. Take, for instance, booking a …

Keeping track of travel reservations can be quite a chore. When planning a trip, I get emails from airlines, hotels, car rentals, trains, meetings, appointments, tickets and whatever else we’re …

Joe and I are big fans of Key West. There was a time we went every year, usually for an extended weekend. At one point, we visited often enough (once …

Whenever I begin to plan a trip, I tend to notice that my mind wanders from one idea to another. I find this to be useful because it helps me …

As of today, I’ve firmed up many of the plans for our trip to Iceland. We have flights, a rental car, and places to stay on our journey. While I’ve …

If you’ve been paying attention to our posts for the past few days, you know that we’ve booked flights to Iceland. The flight to Reykjavik is as far as we’ve …

While the way people are traveling right now is different from before the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a trend that runs through everyone’s plans. It doesn’t matter if you’re planning to …

It’s hard not to be able to travel as I’d like. 2020 is a blur of canceled plans and places not visited. What has been even harder is not being …

Things being what they are, I get a certain level of enjoyment looking back at past travels, even if they weren’t mine. Besides booking trips for us, I love helping …