Archive for July, 2009

The Best Carry-On Backpacks

With the ever-increasing chance that you’ll have to pay extra to check your bag the next time you fly, you may take a shot at flying with only a carry-on bag and not checking any luggage. More and more people are doing so, and there entire websites, such as www.onebag.com, devoted to the art of [...]

Free WiFi on AirTran, American, Delta and Virgin America Flights from Gogo

(Updated with new codes.)
AirTran, American Airlines, Delta Airlines and Virgin America have started offering WiFi internet on select flights through Gogo Inflight Internet. According to this thread on SlickDeals.net, you can try it out for free if you’re on a flight where it’s offered by following these instructions:

On the flight, connect to the ‘gogoinflight’ wireless [...]

Give Up the Bottle – Grab a SteriPEN

While a rural Australian town may be the first to ban the sale of bottled water, whichever side of the great bottled water debate you fall on, there is an undeniable fact about drinking bottled water when traveling in developing countries: your empty bottles are almost certainly not being recycled, and instead destroying the beauty [...]