Travel Equipment

Full disclosure: Joe and I don’t have kids or even any nieces or nephews (an only child who married an only child, who woulda thunk???). So I admittedly can’t look…

I’ve been traveling on a regular basis since sometime around the early 1990s. I had my favorite piece of luggage ever, in the form of a Samsonite Silhouette EZ Cart,…

Years ago, before smartphones were a thing, you were fairly limited in finding out what was coming up next on those long highways. Oh sure, you’d see the blue highway…

Some people swear by traveling with only carry on luggage. I’ve heard them say how they traveled all across Europe for a month with only a knapsack. And other people…

According to the U.S. Department of State, there were nearly 147,000,000 U.S. citizens who had a valid U.S. passport in 2019. And that’s just in our country, alone! If you…

I won’t lie – flying in first or business class is always better than flying in economy. You’re one of the first to board and leave the plane. The seats…

You’ve just gotten off the plane and have to get to your hotel. You could take a taxi or rideshare, but you decide to be independent and adventuresome and take…

Ever since the transatlantic aircraft plot in 2006, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been enforcing what is known as “3-1-1 for carry-ons,” wherein travelers are allowed to carry liquids…

We posted a while back how easy it is for thieves to break into electronic hotel safes. Several people who read it said they leave their valuables in their suitcases…

Several months back, we wrote about an older gentleman from England, Howard Newman, who borrowed his son’s GoPro and wound up videotaping his entire vacation with the camera facing the…