TravelCommons

Month: December 2019

  • Podcast #158 — Travel Potpourri for $400, Alex

    Podcast #158 — Travel Potpourri for $400, Alex

    Good End to 2019 Skipping the Chicago winter with trips to Phoenix and Sedona, Arizona, and a Christmas morning flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Talk about those trips, my good and bad Hertz experiences, and then gather up odds-‘n’-ends from my travel notebooks to see off 2019 in this New Year’s Eve episode. All this and more at the… Continue Reading →

  • 10 Best Gift Ideas for a New Traveler

    10 Best Gift Ideas for a New Traveler

    Coming into the heart of the Christmas shopping season, when people are getting desperate for gift ideas, I thought I’d offer up 10 suggestions for gifts that a new frequent traveler will actually use. While many gift lists are pushing Away luggage, Huzi infinity pillows, and Aesop travel kits (these companies must’ve splashed a lot of samples around the blog-o-sphere),… Continue Reading →