Tagged With "US-17"

I LOVE my airline credit card, but it's great to have all this information in one place to see if I could do better. Probably not without some whopping fees, but whopping bonuses, too. Thank you sir, for showing us all these choices!

I have a Delta American Express Platinum card that has served us well. The fee is higher than the gold card, but we can check two bags free, priority boarding, and a free companion pass yearly. We fly two or three times a year and the value of the waived baggage fee and the companion pass far exceed the $150 annual fee. The card also accrues one mile for each dollar spent and lately has offered cash back incentives. For example: spend $15 at Panera's using the card and receive $5 credit on...

Fine houses in their pristinely manicured gardens. Don't think I could even afford the taxes. I do like the areas that remain untouched by golf and the hand of fortune. I prefer the untouched to the "candy box tin" painting of nature. I've been to many places where the presence of paupers - like myself - detract from the ambiance of opulence. Even today I had a note attached to my car, that parking in a non-designated zone was being selfish. Even though they were full !

Far be it for anyone to say you are selfish, Garry! It is one of the most expensive places to live in California, but I suspect all those drivers going through help subsidize the neighborhood more than that homeowners might want to let on. And I'm not sure most of us could afford the taxes, even if we wanted to. Being an average guy, this is just not my scene.

Breathtakingly expensive if I recall. I'm surprised that you are allowed to take photos without paying into the local coffers! :-)

I'm also surprised there's no per photo toll imposed on the great unwashed masses visiting the shores of the drive, Mac!

Well, the unwashed mass did enjoy his time there.... :-)

The views are really pretty, but no motorcycles??

Cars and bikes are fine, JP, but hogs aren't. The road is good enough so I suspect the home owners (much of the drive is through residential areas) don't want the noise of a big pack of motorcycles passing their gates and fine-trimmed lawns.

Not only is travel good for the mind, it good for health as well. The report commissioned by the US Travel Association also quotes previous studies that show women who travel twice a year have significantly reduced chance of heart attacks or coronary death and men who didn't take a vacation had a 20 percent higher risk of of death.

  There are a lot of famous road trips in the USA, like California's Pacific Coast Highway and Montana's Going to the Sun Highway .  One of the best known drives in America is scenic 17-Mile Drive (actually distance depends on how you...

The Lone Cypress is one of the most photographed trees in the world. It's located on the beautiful Monterey peninsula, near famous Pebble Beach Golf Course.

American Airlines is cancelling its money-losing service to Israel, as of January. The company's only US-to-Israel service, a daily flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv was originally operated by US Airways before the merger with AA in 2013.   In...

We're used to reading of big orders of new planes, especially at the big annual airshows. But some airlines, including big ones, also keep an eye on the used-plane market.   Delta, for example, has indicated it wants to expand its wide-body fleet...

There are many memorials to the victims of the Nazi regime in Germany. Jonathan L introduces us to some of the smaller, lesser-known ones in Berlin.

Up, up and away—quickly! That’s the goal for many frequent fliers, and a current round of cards for various airlines is offering some big bonuses to meet that goal…some of them enough for a round-trip to Europe in one shot. Right...

Studies shows what positive effects traveling abroad has on the mind.

Bridge closure in Canada causes detours through the US

A beautiful example of Nature surviving in the most extreme conditions. I've not seen this tree before. At first glance I saw a well manicured Bonsai Tree. But I would resist the temptation to keep it trimmed.

Party time, and Samantha takes us to the Denver hotel whose big New Year's Eve event keeps drawing her back.

Samantha shares some pictures of their dogs on some local road trips.

We like doing road trips with our dogs, too. They hate to be left behind and always seem to enjoy the excitement of traveling somewhere new.

Samantha loves seeing the Ocean while visiting CA. On her last trip, she and her husband visited Huntington Beach. It is a great place to think, relax, and find some peace.

It does indeed have a sister city in Australia, Samantha - Manly, a beachside suburb of Sydney that's home to the Australian Open of Surfing.

Samantha and her husband share pictures from the South Carolina state line, as they continue their quest to visit every state