Entries from May 2007

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Digital Tire Gauge

There are many essential gears that a traveler must have while he’s on a road trip or mountain biking. One item that I carry on all my road trips is a tire gauge. It is multi-functional than many of you can imagine. It not only informs me of the air pressure in my tires but [...]

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Nature Air: World’s First Green Airliner

Nature Air, a Costa Rican local airline company claims to be the first and only zero emission airline. Zero-emission airline is a misnomer. There are no such flights or any other vehicles that run on gas that cannot emit carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. Nature Air is emitting toxic gases into our atmosphere just like any [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Travel Tips for Asthma Patients

I have a close friend who suffers from asthma and has had a few asthma attacks while I stayed with him. It was never easy for us to travel especially going from one region to another in the US. He was particularly allergic to pollens so we had to do an extra-ordinary amount of research [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Travel=Tobacco

The title is neither a misnomer nor an attractive strategy to lure visitors, but a comparison; literally. The founder of Rough Guides, Mark Ellingham has compared the damage done by travelers as equivalent to that of the tobacco industry. He once encouraged people to take up traveling without thinking too much about it. Ellingham feels [...]

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Globe Trotting with Flight Memory

First it was the Track Stick II and now I have something different but on the same lines. It’s your flight plan. Flight Memory is a cool website that lets you record your flight itinerary and it calculates and stores information such as time spent on each flight, distance covered with each hop, make of [...]