Quick Tip: How to Keep the Travel Toiletries Flowing

Do you pack your 3-1-1 toiletry kit with small bottles of shampoo and conditioner, only to find that you can only realistically use half the bottles, because the last half decides to cling to the bottom of the bottle? This happens pretty often, especially with really thick gels or hair conditioner. Here’s a handy tip: …

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Low-tech idea: Mike Rohde’s Alaska Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde is a graphic artist who publishes a lot of his work (and thoughts) online on his blog, Rohdesign.com. I’ve always admired his sense of style, and when his method of doodling conference notes evolved into his own style of “sketchnotes,” he completely hit it out of the ballpark. Instead of blindly writing down …

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Don’t pay the airlines for water

Reading today’s blog entry from travel consumer writer Chris Elliott (“The coming dehydration crisis for airline passengers”), I was disconcerted to learn that the new policy US Airways is implementing for charging passengers for soft drinks includes charging them for bottled water (read the press release from the airline). I don’t know about you, but …

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