Well, after 10 hours in the air to Paris we spent 7 more on the ground waiting in the new terminal at Charles De Gaulle  (F&*%freezing, no food, what there was was super expensive).  Finally we boarded our flight here and in 4 1/2 hours we were on the ground.  Mugr

Ian and I spent 3 weeks in the South Pacific, visiting Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Cook Islands. We finished up in the Cook Islands. We backtracked once again to Papeete where we stayed with our by-now good friend at Chez Myrna, and then it’s only a short 2 hour flight from

My wife and I took a 3 week trip to the South Pacific in July of 2006.  We visited the islands of Bora Bora, Moorea and Tahiti in French Polynesia, followed by Easter Island (Chile) and finally Rarotonga and Aitutaki of the Cook Islands.…

Our first stop was Club Med Bora Bora. It might seem like an unusual destination for us, given our usual choices of pensions and cheap backpacker hotels.  Well, believe it or not, Club Med is the "cheap" option on Bora Bora.  It is recommended by Lonely Planet as b

We spent 3 weeks in India during Christmas 2005. We are backpackers, and stayed at budget places and ate at cheaper restaurants. We got around using a train pass. Getting There Getting tickets to go to Delhi at Christmas time was a little challenging.…

We got to Bangkok via Tokyo, on the strangest ticket we’ve ever seen. It was bought from Expedia and involved many unrelated airlines. SFO to Tokyo was on Northwest (codeshare with Continental).…

We spent 3 days and 2 nights in Reykjavik, Iceland on the way to London, from San Francisco. We were there in July. It was a worthwhile stopover to get a small "taste" of Iceland.…