In Transit Blog: In Orlando, a Farm-to-Table Focus

Restaurants and a brewery at the Grande Lakes Orlando resort in Florida will emphasize homegrown ingredients.

















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Not Just The Knee Defender: Gadgets That Promise Comfort - And Irritation

The Knee Defender isn't the only travel accessory with the potential to annoy other passengers.



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When travel can’t cure grief

I ran so hard I couldn’t see the way it made everything worse. But it wasn’t depression that nearly killed me. It was my inability to ask for help.



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Favorite Place: Refuge and Renewal on Lake George

In this corner of the Adirondacks, elements of modern life yield to more timeless pursuits.

















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Insider Guide to Portugal’s Southern Coast

Portugal is made for wanderers. From the top of the Moorish remnants of Castelo de São Jorge, Lisbon cascades downhill in all directions, new paths beckoning at every turn. Surf camps dot the 215-mile stretch south of the storied capital city. Part of the region known as the Alentejo, this shore is far quieter than the Algarve beaches at the country's southern edge.



from Intelligent Travel http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/04/insider-guide-to-portugals-southern-coast/

They Ran Out Of Food In Etihad First Class… AGAIN!!!

As many of you may recall, I flew the inaugural Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles in first class.

For the most part I love Etihad first class -- the seat is quite comfortable and private, service is fairly good, and the food concept is well thought out (in theory), with their onboard chef and dine on demand menu.

The problem is that they don't load enough food.

Etihad has a "dine on demand" concept so you can eat what you want when you want, but on my flight to Los Angeles had almost nothing left four hours before arrival. That's a bit embarrassing for an inaugural flight, but I figured I was just really unlucky, as there's *no way* that can be the norm on one of the world's top airlines.

Unless that airline is Etihad, apparently.

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Knee defender speaks out about airline legroom fight

The man who got kicked off a United Airlines flight because of a fight over seat reclining says he's sorry about his behavior.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/04/travel/knee-defender-flight-legroom-fight/index.html

Pilot detours plane to give passengers better view of volcano

Erupting Icelandic volcanoes have been known to ground flights, but this time they kept one up in the air as a pilot looped around to give passengers a better view of the spectacle.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/04/travel/iceland-volcano-air/index.html

Why American Has Its Frequent Flyer and IT Priorities Right (and Randy Petersen is Wrong)

Doug Parker said that American AAdvantage wouldn’t be going revenue-based at this point, that their key metric is combining the AAdvantage program with Dividend Miles, and that once they accomplish that they’ll evaluate what’s next. In his opening remarks to the September issue of Inside Flyer, Randy Petersen seems to push for a revenue-based program […]

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Paris is for the nostalgic

I feel like the world keeps moving around it, but it's cultural aspects remain classic.



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24 images from a Syrian war zone

Cengiz shares with us this iPhone photo essay, offering a glimpse of what life is like inside northeastern Syria.



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Malaysia Airlines Bucket List Contest — Bad Taste, Or?

In addition to the two horrible tragedies that have occurred with MH370 and MH17, I certainly also sympathize with the airline as such. They're in a horrible situation, both financially and in terms of morale.

I give them credit for trying some creative things to get passengers on planes, though it seems they may have crossed the line with the contest they launched earlier in the week, entitled "My Ultimate Bucket List." Through the contest, travelers in Australia and New Zealand were asked to enter the destinations that are on their "bucket list," for a chance to win a roundtrip ticket.

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Osprey Nebula: A Rugged Laptop Backpack for the Modern Nomad

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Osprey Packs has long been a mainstay of backpackers worldwide. With good reason as their packs are durable, stylish, lightweight and cleverly designed. Their latest Nebula Backpack is built with modern nomads in mind. The primary feature that sets it apart from other Osprey packs is that it’s TSA-approved, meaning there’s no need to remove […]

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Mobile marketing set to evolve with VR and hyper-local targeting

Two pieces of mobile news – one in marketing and one in mapping – have triggered an interesting conceptual framework for the ...



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Spirit Airlines Promotes Low Fares With Naked Photos of Jennifer Lawrence!

In Spirit’s latest, they offer: Spirit wins, because they get the Wall Street Journal to cover their ‘low fares’ at virtually zero cost. “Our bare fare was hacked,” reads a Spirit Airlines promotion emailed to consumers Wednesday, just days after hacked nude photographs of a handful of celebrities surfaced online. “We feel naked; you were […]

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