During my latest Japan adventure, my Mom and I flew into Tokyo since it was a direct flight from LA. We planned to stay there for a few days to acclimate to the new time zone before heading off with the main goal of seeing the 75th Annual Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
Continue reading “Review: Mt. Fuji & Hakone Full-Day Tour From Tokyo, Japan”
For the past 12 years I used TripCase to organize my travel plans. When I retired in 2020 and became a full-time nomad, TripCase was the only reason I wasn’t lost in the wilderness given all of the things I needed to juggle in order to have a smooth experience moving around the globe every month.
But because all good things must end, TripCase is sunsetting and closing its app on April 1, 2025, so it’s time to say goodbye to the most helpful app I use that’s also been in my life the longest. You will be missed TripCase. Continue reading “TripIt: The Best Travel App (To Replace TripCase)”
I know I’ve raved about Singapore Air Business Class before (see the various posts below), but I wanted to add this review to the stack because I’d never flown this route before and it’s been 2 years since I flew this airline and a lot can change in that amount of time. Continue reading “Review: Singapore Air Business Class – LA to Tokyo, Japan For $5”
We’ve finally reached the end of this saga. This is a recap of flight 3/3 with IcelandAir that I booked on one $940 USD ticket that basically ended up costing me $293.90 USD because my first flight was delayed and I applied for and received $646.10 USD as a result of EU Regulation 261/2004. Continue reading “Review: IcelandAir – Amsterdam, The Netherlands to NYC”
Here we go again 🙂 . This is a recap of my 2nd of 3 flights with IcelandAir that I booked on one $940 USD ticket. It basically ended up costing me $293.90 USD after my first flight was delayed and I applied for and received $646.10 USD as a result of EU Regulation 261/2004. Not bad for an EU law I didn’t know existed and 30 seconds of work 🙂 .
Continue reading “Review: IcelandAir – Reykjavík, Iceland to Zürich, Switzerland”
My adventures trying new airlines around the world continues! This time I’m taking on KLM whose full name is “KLM Royal Dutch Airlines” – fancyyy! Learning their full name led me down a rabbit hole where I discovered that The Netherlands currently has a monarchy and a King – I didn’t see that coming.
But learning about random royalty aside, I was curious to fly KLM and compare them to the many other new-to-me airlines I’ve been flying around the world recently. So let’s see how they stack up! Continue reading “Review: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines – Bologna, Italy to Amsterdam, The Netherlands”
I knew that getting things done in Italy could be a bureaucratic nightmare from living there previously, but I didn’t expect getting a dental appointment to be one of those things 🙂 .
Up to this point, I’ve had my teeth cleaned in several countries and Italy is the first one where getting an appointment took so much effort that I almost gave up.
So today I have a saga for you, but it does have a happy ending. I hope this helps if anyone else is trying to get dental care in Italy as a tourist. So let’s get into it.
Continue reading “Medical Tourism: Dental Cleaning And Cavity Fillings In Bologna, Italy”
So I got tricked into going to Iceland 🙂 …I’m totally kidding. As I mentioned in my recent monthly recap, I kept hearing about Iceland because of IcelandAir’s marketing push showing how they will add a free stopover in their gorgeous country to any flight. Continue reading “Review: IcelandAir – Boston, MA to Reykjavík, Iceland”