A Wireless Travel Router?
Jul25

A Wireless Travel Router?

As a NETGEAR Ambassador, I was contacted and offered the opportunity to try out and give an honest review of their Trek travel router. While this wireless travel router and extender offers a lot of attractive features, one really caught my attention strongly—the ability to use it as a hotspot. Since some places charge for WiFi, this provides you the opportunity to pay for only one login and still connect multiple devices. Something we...

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Review of TravelPony
Jun18

Review of TravelPony

As we were doing our 9-week rapid tour of western Europe, I was offered some credits to try out the booking site TravelPony.com. I have my old standbys, but it’s always nice to check out another site and see what deals you can find. The timing worked out well for us to give it a whirl as we prepared to head to Marseille. The site is really geared more for people whose budget is in the mid to high range. Budget travelers won’t find...

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Some great items to add to your travel list
Jun02

Some great items to add to your travel list

Reviewing some products you will probably want to add to your travel list.

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Add this to your travel checklist
Apr07

Add this to your travel checklist

I love packing cubes. I think they are one of the best travel checklist items ever created. Cubes that compress, too? Are they worth it?

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The Red Rucksack
Feb05

The Red Rucksack

A review of Ben West’s travel book The Red Rucksack.

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Auckland’s Sea Life Aquarium
Dec11

Auckland’s Sea Life Aquarium

While we were housesitting in Auckland, we decided to check out their aquarium. We figured it would be something nice to do on a wintery, overcast day. Its official name is Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium. They were kind enough to offer us free admission so we could review it. Whenever you review a place, you always hope you’ll have positive things to say. Hope springs eternal, right? Our underwhelming experience began with finding...

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