Travel Commons

In this episode, a listener asks about if and when to use travel compression socks, we discern the popularity of in-flight Wi-Fi service from Gogo's IPO filing, and dissect a recent article on the best airports for tech users. We look at the new wave of social media dining apps such as Untappd which...

Updated holiday travel tips: drive or train for trips less than 350 miles, pay extra to fly direct, catch the first flight out, and know all the alternative airports. News reports of Black Friday shopping make me wonder why people would go through the hassles to fly airlines like Spirit Air. Listene...

Flight out of Grand Junction, CO gave me a throw-back moment " a flight in a prop plane. Sitting next to a huge guy on a very small plane got me thinking about how to deal with row mates " row mates "of size" and row mates who like to chat. Global Entry program saved me from a huge line at ORD. Comm...

Recounting the stories of travelers trying to get back home after the US borders were closed after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Also, hands on experience working on a Samsung Chromebook while on the road...

Into the summer travel rhythm with a mix of vacation and business travel. Using an Apple iPad 2 and Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet during this mix gave me enough real world experience to make some recommendations. A couple of recent web links describe this podcast as "not as upbeat as...

Was off the road for two weeks for my kids' graduations, but now back in the security lines with a mix of domestic and international travel. Listener suggestions include dining at local music clubs to avoid the "eating alone" stigma, and using mini-USB hubs to power your gadgets without carrying a b...

Lots of business travel this month - UK, India, Germany, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Madrid - so there's a lot to talk about. The international travel lets me compare business class seats - there's a wide range of experiences even within the same airline. While in India, a listener asks my advice on...

My business-vacation combo trip to London, Paris, and Venice provides the source for most of this episode's content. Wanting to pack light, I had to figure out how to pack for 10 days, 3 cities, two business meetings and a week's vacation in a single carry-on bag. After landing in London, I skipped...

I'm getting ready for a stint of international travel. I visited the 2011 Travel Goods show for a preview of the new travel goodies we'll be seeing in the shops this spring. Wading through a front room stacked with luggage, I hit the gadget room with the interesting stuff and interviewed some of the...

I skipped the Midwest's "snow-pocalypse" by flying to Phoenix where it was unseasonably cold -- in the 20's and 30's F -- but without snow. It's been a cold winter and I came down with some nasty bug while visiting Dallas, which reminded me how miserable it is to be sick while traveling. Before my w...