Imagine flying around the world for free, turning a small amount of frequent flyer points into endless flights, all while paying a pittance in taxes and fees. It sounds too…
Got Milk Run? Why I Love Flying in the Canadian Arctic
What’s the reward for long layovers? A beautiful view. Photo by Anubha. Travelling within Nunavut is not easy: We have over 1.8 million kilometres squared of land, three time zones,…
Frugal, Flying, and Fabulous
Does First Class feel a long way off? Do you long for the perks of First Class but don’t have room in the budget? Here are some tips to help…
Top 5 In-Flight Frustrations
We can’t all have perfect flights. This photo from http://conversation.which.co.uk. Go Girls love to travel and explore. We know how to pack light and adjust to the ups and downs…
Where Were You on 9/11?
. . . . . It’s been ten years since the planes hit the World Trade Center in New York and Pentagon in Washington, D.C., yet everyone around the…
Flight Frustration
To help me get my two suitcases and whatever else I managed to acquire during this past semester–and because I convinced them this was the perfect time for the long-awaited…
The Hardest Jobs
Here begins my list of the hardest jobs in the whole world. Subject of today’s post: Airport workers. I was thinking about this while stuck in Lisbon Airport on a…
Friends All Over the World, Part 2
I will not go into the reasons for me not being allowed to board my flight home– God knows if I talk about it again I might begin to throw…
A Tourist…by Accident(s) (Part 1 of 2)
It’s midnight on the morning of Friday, June 25. I’m in the airport in Lisbon, ready for my 12:15am flight to São Tomé e PrÃncipe. It took some time (and…
Cloud Gazing
I’ve always been a cloud gazer. When I was younger, I spent my lazy late summer afternoons on my back in the grass, looking upwards. Sometimes with my sister, sometimes…
My Australia in Review
If you’ve ever hesitated about the long flight to Australia, don’t. The great land down under is worth every bit of the long journey and the memories I’ll never forget….
The World is a Big Place After All
One of the inevitable truths of travel is that things will go wrong: trains will be missed, reservations lost, sunglasses, toothbrushes and the occasional shoe (among other, more important things)…
Nan Avyon An
At this point I have been in Haiti for one day. In my experiences in São Tomé, I have found many similarities. Perhaps more similarities than differences in the food,…
Jetlag
Jetlag By Megan After a long journey back to the USA from good old India, including a surprise layover in Germany (Surprise! I only ate two German pretzels, just two this…