Get your passport and currency ready because Middle Seat columnist Scott McCartney explains to savionaires how you all should travel in the Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact (Harper; Paperback; 320 pages; $16.99). McCartney provides several insider tips: how to find the lowest fares, where to find the cheap … [Read more...]
A $11,000 PLANE TICKET
If you are a serious globe-trotter, you must do a round-the-world trip. Prices can range from as little as $3000 for a coach seat to see cities on 3 different continents or fly 26,000 miles to over $11,000 for a first class trip to 6 continents or 39,000 miles. A good round-the-world ticket will have almost no advance purchase clause and is valid for a year after first using … [Read more...]
HIGH ROAD CAR COOLER ORGANIZER
You spend a lot of hours in your car driving to work, to appointments, to school and back home. While sitting in traffic for hours, you are likely to get hungry or thirsty. Don't worry because there is a solution. The innovative High Road Car Cooler is perfect for packing drinks and snacks. This must-have car accessory was designed with the driver in mind. Hand side flaps allow … [Read more...]
A CASUALLY COSMOPOLITAN CITY
Seattle is a city of opposites. It is a big city with a small town feel. It is multi-cultural, but everyone lives the same easy-going way of life. It is high-tech, but workers carry backpacks,instead of briefcases. It is cosmopolitan, while being very casual. Even though Seattle is a city of contrasts, it is still a "must do" city. While visiting, set up base shop in one of the … [Read more...]
VISITING FRANCE IN CANADA
Montréal is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world. Although, don’t worry about not being able to speak French because at least half of Montrealers are fluent in both French and English. In addition, one in five is fluent in three languages. This very diverse, tolerant and cosmopolitan metropolis of over 3.5 million is only forty-five miles from the United States … [Read more...]