The Desert of My Dreams

When it comes to maintaining and losing weight, travel usually tends to be a nightmare for me. The change in routine and environment makes it difficult to maintain my eating and exercise habits. I always gain weight when I travel. In the past six months, I’ve been doing better dealing with travel […]

My week in Kauai was pretty awesome. Kauai was one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I’ve ever visited and I can’t wait to go back (one of these days). For the most part, vacationing by myself was pretty nice - I got to do whatever I wanted and without dealing with […]

There’s nothing that I hate more than an over planned weekend or vacation. I think the whole point of taking time off is to chill out and not have to adhere to a schedule! Nonetheless, there is soooo much stuff to do in Kauai so I figured some prior research and tentative planning […]

Yosemite was amazing [photos]. We ended up not hiking the Inspiration Trail but hiked the first part of the Mist Trail (to Vernal Falls) and the Cathedral Lakes Trail (the 8 mile loop to the lower of the lakes and back). I enjoyed the eastern part of the park far more since it […]

I was starting to get overwhelmed trying to make sense of Yosemite information online so I picked up a Yosemite Lonely Planet guide book the other night (print is better for this task). I’m not one to thoroughly plan my weekends or vacations, as I believe schedules should be left at work. […]

I’m heading to Yosemite with my friend Erin this coming weekend. Having grown up in Southern Illinois, neither one of us has ever been there and I’m a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out what we must visit while we’re there. We’ll only be there for 2 days/one night so we won’t have […]

I’m not sure if the other airlines do this but I thought this was awesome! I was checking on Nabeela’s flight to see if it was delayed. Not only does JetBlue tell you its estimated arrival time, you can also look at a map that shows you the current location of the flight. That’s taking […]

I’m leaving this weekend to spend a week in Boston hanging out with my sister. My parents are also planning on being there for a few days so I’ll get to see them, too. I’m pretty excited because I haven’t seen my family since February and I’ve never been to Boston before. In an effort […]

I want to fly home Christmas week but the cheapest fares I’m finding are $700 and that’s way too much for SJC to STL. For that price, I should be flying somewhere more fun (sorry STL). So I’m curious, where do you find cheap domestic airfare?
UPDATE: has anyone used Priceline? Let me […]

I’m in DTW right now (finally heading to San Jose) with about an hour to kill before my flight takes off. The America West gate agent just made the following announcement, “If you checked in via the web and printed your boarding pass at home, please see the gate agent to reprint your boarding […]