Miles MPG Avg. Speed 1326.8 42.1 60 Priceline* Hotel* $ Savings % Savings New Orleans Downtown Marriott At The Convention Center (4-star) $73.46 ($61) $178.08 ($159) $104.62 59% * New hotel data format. Priceline amount includes all…
Anyone who’s traveled to a city knows the state of hotel parking. $60/day in downtown San Francisco, $50/day in D.C., more in New York. So when I went to New Orleans recently I was unsurprised that parking was $31/day at…
January 11, 2013 – 1900 miles – no mileage data Priceline* Hotel* $ Savings % Savings Hyatt Place Greenville/Haywood (3-star) $55.95 ($46) $99.68 ($89) $43.73 44% Crowne Plaza Hotel Dulles Airport (3.5-star) $61.77 ($49) $151.20($135) $89.43 60% Wyndham Virginia…
So back in May I hurt my shoulder – wakeboarding, not hockey-related. That put me on the sidelines for a few weeks, and then I was very busy planning and preparing for a trip around the country with my daughter. …
I can’t say enough good things about Fetch! Pet Care. I’ve used them twice now, once for a weekend trip to the Keys in May and now this trip. I’ve always had trouble finding good boarding for the Big Bad…
I was skeptical, but the things actually work well. Twenty-nine days, through some of the hottest parts of the country at the hottest time of year. Vegas at 110-degrees and hiking the Grand Canyon were the biggest tests and the…
Well … after driving over 9700 miles in 28 days, I think I can now offer an opinion about the Toyota Prius. The gas mileage is obviously its most outstanding feature, averaging 46.8 mpg over the 9700 miles. This is…
Of the twenty-eight nights in hotels for this trip, I booked twenty of them through Priceline. Checking the forums on BiddingForTravel gave me an idea of what winning bids were like for a given area, rather than blindly trying to…
This trip was amazing. Every day was incredibly full of things to do and see. On the ride home it seemed like we’d only just started and that we’d been on the road forever. The Painted Desert seemed like it…
Home at last and able to get the paddling photos off the CD from Yellowstone, Day 21. For the paddle, we met at the outfitter’s store in downtown Gardiner, then shuttled to the put-in which was about three blocks away…