Hello, and welcome to the Internet. Now go out there and see the world:
The best Christmas lights in NYC?
The Disney Blog gives us 20,000 reasons to visit the Disney Museum.
The best beaches for sea glass – not to be confused with litter. (UpTake Beaches)
The Chicago Tribune rates U.S. airline nutrition.
MarketingVox shares travel apps for iPhone and Droid. Read More »
Do you like the links and the deals and the travel stuffs on the internets? Then you’re in luck! Here are some of the latest travel-related news to find its way into our inbox/twitter stream:
The Window Seat breaks down the 8 rudest travelers you’ll meet this holiday season. Are you on it?
Are you flying Black Friday through Cyber Monday? Funjet has some deals for you! (via PR Newswire)
CNN is big on the debunking. The latest record set straight: Holiday travel advice.
Chicago Flame gives us the Top 5 Places Not to Vacation. Thanks, Flame.
Matador Network gives us 6 reasons to drink on flights. We only need two: drink and flight. Read More »
Are you cold and wanting to get away? Are there visions of beaches in your head – or maybe falling leaves and fresh snow? Also, turkey. Then read on, gentle reader, read on.
No booking fees and a $200 coupon to use on a later trip? It’s true. Merry holiday of your choice from Expedia.
Virgin America is having a huge 24-hour sale. Hurry! If you miss that there is still this: Virgin America is the first airline to offer fleetwide Wi-Fi and thanks to Google it’s free for the holidays! Read More »
Hey, kids, it’s time for everyone’s favorite chunk of used space! And travel links!
Low-cost airlines are following you (and friending).
Nomadic Matt is giving away an iPod Touch and more!
And the WAEA goes to…
Did you know that there is travel in them there Internets? It’s true!
Here are just a few of the items that have shuffled across our inbox lately:
If you have a kid, a camera and access to water you could win a $500 Best Western gift card at Babble Playground. How’s that for a photo contest?
Holy cow, Jet Blue! All-You-Can-Jet for $599! Shamwow! Read More »
Since hardly anybody gets the paper anymore (and obviously the LA Times is feelin’ it, because it’s laying off many of the humans who work there and, like, write stuff) I feel an obligation to tell you about a wonderful feature that the Times ran last Sunday. Hopefully they won’t be getting rid of Christopher Reynolds anytime soon, considering that he is a one-man travel section for the paper.
In one issue alone, Reynolds provided the following:
-a travelogue of his road trip along the California coast, south end to north end.
-a list and review of hotels along the coast that offer good deals.
-a guide to the restaurants he visited.
And his picks for the top five coastal CA campgrounds, which includes my favorite, Leo Carillo beach. And I know my SoCal beaches (see photos below).
I feel this need to tell you about it because I, unlike many other travelers, still actually read the physical newspaper. While I get fantastic travel ideas from Uptake, nothing grabs my attention like a well-written travelogue that smells of newsprint that I can enjoy while I’m drinking my lazy Sunday morning coffee. That is, until my toddler comes along to shred it out of my hands.
Oh, they still have other writers on staff, who provided more gems in this very same issue, including this item about luxury hotel renovations, a gold mine of info about California’s national parks , monuments, and historical sites. If you do read the newspaper and you fear the day it starts arriving as one long sheaf of advertising and no information whatsoever, Uptake will be here to make you feel better. Might as well start using us more regularly now (and subscribe, even!) to soften the blow.
If only Uptake smelled like newsprint. But maybe they’ll come up with smell-o-vision for computers.
All photos by Kim Tracy Prince
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