The Most Effective Trick for Quickly Maximizing Carry-On Luggage
Onboard a plane, everyone gets two items: a carry-on bag and a personal item. Here's how to get three bags for the road, without checking in anything extra. Simply nest the smallest bag (usually, the...
View ArticleHow Two People Traveling Together Can Save on Baggage
It pays to be a couple (or two people traveling together). No one is discriminating against single people, but there are certain perks people traveling together can employ on the road. One such...
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T-Mobile Tuesdays Is Offering $10 Off the Next Lyft Ride
Our favorite carrier of choice for traveling, T-Mobile, is offering $10 off Lyft rides for all users. Like we needed any more reason to switch over? Free international data roaming and texting, one...
View ArticleFew People Know Google Trips Offers Discounts Inside the App.
It seems for a while now that Google Trips has offered travel discounts for, well, virtually doing nothing.1 This feature has been around since 2017, but it appears to be one of those things that no...
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The Rules of Hidden City Ticketing in 2019 (Time Flies!)
Remember that company that got sued a few years ago? Hidden city ticketing is still alive and well, apparently. Hidden city ticketing is a practice where a passenger buys a connecting flight with no...
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How To Manually Update an Amazon Kindle
My first Kindle lasted six years! and I don't think I ever realized it could update. Here's a quick guide to ensure the latest Amazon Kindle firmware is installed. Maybe I always expected the device...
View ArticleStop Freaking Out About Bringing a Smart Suitcase Onboard
Despite recent news smart suitcases are being semi-banned from planes, most people will still be able to bring their smart gear onboard an aircraft. God, you and your Instagram. Only Alaska, American,...
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Capturing Photography’s Golden Hour
There’s a reason why sunrise and sunset photography is so popular. For the uninitiated, the golden hour is the crucial period right before sunrise or sunset where light is often softer and redder than...
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Review: The Chipolo Plus Is a Bluetooth Tracker for People Who Lose Everything
Everyone knows a kid that is always losing everything. I may or may not have been that kid. But back then, this tech didn't exist. The Chipolo Plus is a Bluetooth tracker that can be attached to almost...
View ArticleMoovit Is Essentially Google Maps on Real-Time Steroids.
This sponsored post is brought to you by Moovit. Sorry, there is no more space for apps on my phone that no longer cut the mustard. There's got to be more to an app than pretty face, or it has to pull...
View ArticleStaying Entertained During the Electronics Ban
So how exactly do they expect you to stay entertained without an iPad or Kindle the entire time? The old-fashioned way is always worth a shot (pictured). Read the original post on Map Happy.
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Google Earth Adds Points of Interest, Postcards on Chrome and Android
In time for Earth Day, Google is launching its biggest update to Google Earth in two years. This update brings knowledge cards (know what about you're seeing! and a story behind it), points of interest...
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There Are Good Reasons Not To Be an Early Adopter When It Comes to Traveling
It may be hypocritical for us to advocate against being an early adopter when it comes to travel tech, gear and even destinations, but there are often good reasons to wait. Precisely, because in the...
View ArticleDownload Google's OnTheFly App Before It Completely Disappears
Since I've started traveling in 2009, I've seen United devalue its program to kingdom come, the famous Canadian exception come to an end and Pluto get demoted from planet to dwarf planet. (Kidding....
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Review: AwardWallet Lets You Track and Manage Frequent Flyer Points Like a Pro
Time to upgrade that Notepad document.1 Its easier to accumulate loyalty points than kingdom come, so it's no surprise most people have trouble not only remembering their point balances, expirations...
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Is Instagram Redefining the Concept of the Travel Guidebook?
Guidebooks are kinda passé, no? Arguably, there are better tools out there these days where guidebooks have long reigned king. Though there’s nothing like rows and rows of guidebooks to inspire joy,...
View ArticleAlaska Airlines Introduces Free In-Flight Messaging (Texting Not Included)
So, while everyone was shuffling their feet back to work, Alaska buried the fact they're now offering free in-flight messaging on all of their planes. In a rare move unprecedented in the industry,...
View ArticleGet the $10 U.S. National Park Senior Lifetime Pass Before Time's Up
One Mile at a Time recently clued us into a huge discount: Senior citizens over the age of 62 are entitled to a $10 lifetime pass. (For online applications, there is an additional $10 processing fee....
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How To Easily Transfer WhatsApp iPhone Messages to an Android Phone
First of all, I think I've added a couple of brand new gray hairs trying to sort through all of the information available on the interwebs. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging solution out there,...
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The Preferred Camera for Most Travelers Is.......
Special memories doesn't warrant special gear, it may seem. Or, perhaps, technology has caught up so much most devices are finally good enough. In a poll of over 550 readers, Map Happy found 42% of...
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