Travel Tips

One of the things that I set out to do with my blog, was to post sites/things that I learn about day to day…I’m in IT so I’m on the computer/internet about 90% of the time that i’m awake…

Enough of the intro and back to the meat…

Here are some sites that I find useful when traveling or planning to travel…For the seasoned traveler you will probably recognize these.

 SeatGuru.com - Website that shows the good and bad seats on planes..I’ve yet to take a trip that seatguru didn’t have a seatmap for.  Don’t get on a plane without going here first! Really.

Expedia.com - Good quick clean site.  I use this to find whats in an area for hotels.  Or to see what airlines run the route that i need to fly.  I usually then go directly to the site of the company I am flying/staying with (saves a few extra dollars, sorry Expedia) 

Hotwire.com - This is a great site to book hotels with.  I’ve consistently stayed in 4-5 star hotels for $100 or less a night.  Hotwire doesn’t tell you the exact hotel you are staying in…Just the star rating and the general area….If you would like a better idea of where you are staying (sometimes exactly where) you can go to Betterbidding.com. Betterbidding works with hotwire and priceline.com to let you know which hotel you are going to be staying in based on the area and amenities that hotwire is displaying.  This site works 75% of the time…And it’s free so it’s for me…

If you want to see where your loved ones plane is you could use these Flightview.com or Flightaware.com.  If you want to get fancy and plot the flight out 3d on google earth then head on down to fboweb.com. 

Of course once you’re there you might need to find your way around.  Try google maps.

Now go be you’re own travel agent and see what goes on outside of Polk county.

Joe Rogan vs Carlos Mencia

Joe Rogan (Fear Factor/UFC/Stand-up Comedian) introduces another comic and gives some background for that comic…Telling everyone that he opens for Carlos Menstealia (Carlos steals other comedians jokes)  Carlos takes the mic from the comedian and proceeds to get into it with Joe onstage.  Here is the resulting smackdown that Joe deals Carlos.. Pretty good stuff.

My Xbox 360 can blog better than I can…So can yours

Here is the link to my xbox 360s blog.  It likes to post about the games I play and it gets all winey when I don’t play it all   If you’d like your xbox 360 to have a voice of it’s own then go here and sign up.  It’s free and pretty entertaining..

Slacker Wakeup Call

Well I was just surfing the internet and decided to check out Empirical Polk. While there I saw a post listing all of Hyku’s Polk blogs.  I was surprised to see my name on the list since I know I haven’t posted in almost a year… Then I noticed mine was one of the ones on his list that was showing outdated…Thus my slacker wakeup call…So I’m going to try to revive this thing