Three days is a quick trip or a life time. Some fast travel notes: 1. Miami lowes. Still haven’t found the perfect hotel here but getting closer. Loews isn’t a hardwar store but a big hotel. During the winter break overrun with families and seniors. Amazing pool and east beach access. I love the plastic […]

Wow national geographic has certainly branches out. Love reading third latest guide to adventure travel in their november issue. Some notes via wordpress on iPhone: Arunachel Pradeah India. Whitewater kayaking in real wilderness Mont Bell is an amazing lightweight sweater made of goose down packs down to. 20cm long and just 7.5cm around. Perfect for […]

Shelley was asking me about travel bag recommendations. To reiterate, I’ve been using “Eagle Creek”:http://eaglecreek.com for a while. The best one seems to be the “Tarmac ES-20”:http://eaglecreek.com/bags_luggage/wheeled_luggage/Tarmac-ES-20-20158/ because it is wheeled and has lots of flaps. Also the handle is nice and curved which works better if you are taller. At 7.5 pound, it is […]

United is always running strange promotions that require signup. The latest is that if you register at “http://www.united.com/chinabonus”:http://www.united.com/chinabonus, you’ll get up to 10,000 mileage points if you fly to China before June 30. Turns out there are lots of way to track this. “MileMaven.com”:http://milemaven.com is an awesomely cool site that shows promotions by the various […]

If you type in any tail number of any private jet from “Landings.com”:http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search.html you can search for any N-prefix which are US registered. Then if you type into google, the tail number, you’ll get the “registry.faa.gov”:http://registry.faa.gov site to tell you about the aircraft and then you can use “Flightaware.com”:http://flightaware.com/live/ to tell you live where the […]

The “Gold List 2008”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007 An incredible useful list of great restaurants, hotels and around the world. Its pretty accurate actually because it is a reader poll. At least the areas that I know, San Francisco, LA, New York, “Shanghai:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai I’d agree for instance that the “Pudong “Shangri-La”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/hotels/detail?id=297&lastUrl=/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai&label=Shanghai%20hotels is probably the best in Shanghai !>http://www.concierge.com/images/cnt/lists/goldlist07/asia/china/pudong_shangrila/shanghai_hotel_008p.jpg! I […]

When you arrive in an overnight, it sure is nice to clean up and feel fresh. Here are the shower facilities as I know them and you can kind of glean things from Skytrax “Lounge reviews”:http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/Lounges.htm United Red Carpet Clubs in Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Sydney and Tokyo Narita have showers. With first class, you […]