Tag Archives: road trip

Podcast #164 — First-Post Lockdown Trips; Travel Credit Cards

Posted by mark on June 9, 2020 Comments Off on Podcast #164 — First-Post Lockdown Trips; Travel Credit Cards

Can I leave my house now? I broke Chicago’s containment for my first post-lockdown trip, a fast drive down I-65. We talk about hotels swapping hospitality for sanitation, Hertz’s bankruptcy, and tips for travel credit card usage from Brett Holzhauer, the travel card expert at ValuePenguin.com. All this and more at the direct link to the […]

Podcast #163 — New World of Travel Insurance; Getting Medical Help on the Road

Posted by mark on May 8, 2020 Comments Off on Podcast #163 — New World of Travel Insurance; Getting Medical Help on the Road

I think I put off finding a doc too long Though I’m still locked down on the shores of Lake Michigan, data shows that people are starting to do short car trips. What will people need to feel comfortable to do more extensive travel — spacing in aircraft, we talk with Erik Josowitz of insuranceQuotes.com […]

Podcast #162 — Post-Corona Trip Planning; Keeping a Travel Journal

Posted by mark on April 11, 2020 1 comment

Early attempts at travel journaling Kinda tough to do a podcast that’s more about the journey than the destination if I’m not “journeying,” but I give it a go. We talk about cyberattacks on frequent flyer accounts now that we don’t have a reason to check them, planning for my first post-pandemic trips, and how […]

Podcast #100 — Southern Road Trip; Breaking Up with American Airlines

Posted by mark on July 31, 2012 1 comment

Back in the TravelCommons studios after a 2,100-mile drive through the Mid-South. We genuflect quickly to the milestone episode number and then move onto the topics at hand — best piece of hardware schwag from Google I/O 2012, a slightly icky subway ride from downtown San Francisco to SFO, a grab bag of observations from […]