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Another Rant About Air Travel
Sarah and the Goon Squad | August 11th 2008 by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah
Before we had children my husband and I used to travel quite a bit. We didn’t do much international travel but we were probably out of town for at least one weekend a month. Sometimes more. I remember one year when we had six separate weddings read more
RANT: Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO?
Reinke Faces Life | August 5th 2008 by reinkefj
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/05/1539231&from=rss “Clear” Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 05, @12:12PM from the is-kip-hawley-thetan-clear? dept. Privacy Security Transportation read more
Home On Deranged
Blaque's Blog of Horrors | July 23rd 2008
Hat-tip lsanderson..."I disagree with what the majority of the American people want." - John Sidney McCain III, regarding U.S. Iraq policyhttp://www.StopMcCain08.comP.S. (filed under post-vacation rant): The TSA goons stole my fuckin' iPod. Just like read more
Promoting healthy and smarter travel
Travel Rants Blog | July 13th 2008
For the next seven days, Travel Rants will be rant free. I know, it’s shocking, but it’s that time of the year where the schools will soon be closing and everyone will be heading off on their summer holiday. So next week we will be promoting heal read more
FIFA Owes Iraq 3 Points!
Nomadic Wisdom | July 12th 2008 by Nomadic
I wasn’t really sure where to write about this. It’s not REALLY travel is it (although I probably would have to board a flight to watch the Iraq team play)? And it is certainly not Public-Diplomacy (besides I have just filled my public diplomacy read more
Theosuck
Fry Pan Amnesia | July 10th 2008 by Rory
I had planned a big rant about marriage proposals but my stomach is on fire today and I don't feel like it. I suddenly realized I'm working in an office where each worker is a different facet of my mother's personality. More on that later. Fruit fl read more
Paid for in-flight food which other passengers get for free
Travel Rants Blog | June 25th 2008
Holiday complaints piling up at Travel Rants HQ today. The first rant is about in-flight meals, a number of holidaymakers have reported that they have paid their travel agency for an in-flight meal, but passengers sat around them, who haven’t paid read more
Travel rants from the airport runway
Travel Rants Blog | June 18th 2008
Airlines might regret allowing mobile phones, blackberry’s etc on flights you know, not because of potential air rage from passengers sat next to someone yapping on the mobile phone, but passengers can now complain and rant about the airline li read more
Brads Random Red #48
Cincinnati Reds Basball Cards | June 17th 2008 by Joe Cuevas
2005 Prime PatchesMajor League MaterialsJersey Number Patch . Aaron Boone #16 (46/53)Go Hard or Go Home??? Well I wasn't sure when I was gonna break this bad boy out but here you go. I present to you one of my very favorite Patches in my collection read more
Travel Hero: Anthony Bourdain
Travellious | June 16th 2008 by Kelly Goodman
Image: cbcastro. Some people just know how to travel, but rarely does that person have their own television show. I've always liked Anthony Bourdain, but never really had bothered to tune in and see what he had to say about the art of travel. Wh read more
Frequent criers: Elite fliers are ruining air travel
Investigate the world through a photo | June 16th 2008 by Sergey
Travel columnist Christopher Elliott doesn’t want to start a class war at 36,000 feet, but he’s had enough, and must rant about how elite fliers are ruining air travel. More: continued here read more
Id cards, beards, framing BUT also university degrees, congratula…
nicu - a window to my sucky life | June 16th 2008 by Nicu Buculei
I could rant about a "John Doe" life: over a year of not having a valid ID card, living an almost underground life, mostly normal but with only a few minor annoyances (like having the bank accounts blocked, being unable to travel outside of read more
PinkBird's Pointers (Volume V):
PinkBird's Nest | June 14th 2008 by Bekki
While talking with a friend recently, she mentioned that she enjoyed reading my travel tips, so I figured, why not post some more!? Here goes...1. This is not so much a tip as a rant...I'm really sad that a number of airlines are now choosing to char read more
Air Travel Snafu--A Rant
Midgebop | June 8th 2008
Northwest definitely deserves its title of Northworst. Today's fiasco proved it. The only thing I am thankful for is that I thought there might be issues when I booked the ticket, and thus, gave myself an extra day in case one was needed--it was. read more
The stupidity of Major League Baseball
The Hudson Line Blog | June 2nd 2008 by Kevin Canessa
I was thinking a little about the craziness of Major League Baseball.Last night, the New York Mets played the Los Angeles Dodgers at Shea Stadium. The game began after 8 p.m. and ended after 11 p.m. Eastern Time.Tonight, the Mets play the San Francis read more
Some Real Travel News....
Finding Pangaea | May 30th 2008
Most of the time I find "travel news" pretty boring. Go to any travel section of a major news source and you'll find the oh-so-trite headlines of such scintillating things as "London's Happening Side", "Best Summer Getaways", or "Best New Hotels". Bl read more
How Do You Spell Subway? Q-U-I-Z-N-O-S
I'm Having A Thought Here | May 29th 2008 by Jennifer
All evidence to the contrary, I'm Having A Thought Here is not intended to be a rant blog, a humor blog, a religious blog, a critter blog, a literary blog, a pirate blog, a foodie blog, a fangirl blog, a political blog, a mommy blog, or an ecum read more
Our BVI Trip
Binge Eating Disorder Help | May 20th 2008 by Kristin
Just a warning, this is a rant about international travel and how rude some airline people can be. First things first though, our time on the island of Little Dix Bay was amazing. The water was so crystal clear and we had a great time being with ou read more
Travel Guide 1. Wales
PMT for Men | May 20th 2008
Well I have decided to start with Wales simply because Peter has just been having a rant about the Welsh. It is also pretty close which is a big bonus because it makes it easy to get out of when you can't take any more. Because believe me, if you do read more
Get it off your chest – rant on Travel Rants
Travel Rants Blog | May 13th 2008
If you are a regular reader you will read my rants, week in, week out, so I thought for a change I will let readers rant. Yes, this blog is open for you to let off steam and rant about travel issues that really make you annoyed as a consumer or trav read more
A travellers rant about Travel guidebooks
Travel Rants Blog | May 12th 2008
Today an email attracted my attention. David Simson is a student at Leeds University and has just arrived back home from his travels and wanted to rant about the quality of information in the travel guidebooks he purchased prior to his departure. He read more
Me vs. the airlines: a battle plan
Perceptive Travel Blog | May 9th 2008 by Sheila Scarborough
After a week spent flying in coach from Austin to Washington Dulles to Chicago and back, I am in full-on rant mode about the horrid state of air travel in the U.S. Never have I felt like such an underappreciated sack of potatoes; an abused commodity read more
Busy Busy
New York Traveler | May 8th 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber
I can't believe I haven't written to this blog in two weeks! For several months, I was going every day! Since putting my main travel content on my own domain, transferring my home blog and tecchie blog to Wordpress, and billions of other things, I g read more
Let the Countdown begin...
Random Ramblings on Wine and Food | May 6th 2008 by Michel
There are some momentous things afoot, but they won't come to fruition until the end of the month. Not the least of which are the impending end to my kitchen renovation, my 100th Blog Post, which will be quite soon, and which I will try to make as s read more
Why We Travel, Redux
Viator Travel Blog | May 5th 2008
Editor’s Note: Every so often we here at Viator start thinking about the meaning of travel — what’s it all about, why do we do it. See below for Philippa’s contribution to this growing topic. Also see Scott’s rant about read more
A Random Rant on SAID, Overload, DOMS, and more
Mike T Nelson Ramblings | April 18th 2008 by Mike T Nelson
Just some random thoughts that are running around in my head. I am off to the local NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association) conference this weekend and then buried in research/exams, etc for awhile. Pretty scary that I am giving you read more
10 Reasons Why I Blog!
My Perfect Escape | April 8th 2008 by Liz
i got tagged by mel to post 10 reasons why i blog. hmm..it's been a while since my last tag. this is an easy tag tho..so thanks mel!i'll make this short and sweet:1. i can share my travel experiences/adventures.2. i can post the photos (pangits and n read more
A Small Rant
Winter Wonderings | April 5th 2008 by Ian Huyton
I don't usually use this blog as a platform for rants - there are plenty of other blogs out there doing just that. However, I thought I should mention Ryanair. My sister was due to visit me recently, and booked a flight to Barcelona with Ryanair, hav read more