Travel & Aviation
My 7 Favourite Travel Gadgets of 2014
1 - Une Bobine Une Bobine is an iPhone or Android charging cable on steroids. It has a strong and flexible cable that allows you to position your device in any position you want. It can be a base, coil around another item and even be used as a smartphone stand in your car. Even when not being used to charge, you can use it to hold your smartphone for a video conference or as an impromptu tripod for taking that perfect picture.
4 lifehacks for easier,cheaper and more enjoyable airline travel
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2500”] Image by Lars Plougmann used under Creative Commons License [/caption] Travelling is a great way to travel to far flung locations making the world a much smaller place. It isn't always fun or convenient though. I've spent thousands of hours trapped inside a trans-atlantic or trans-pacific flight wishing for it to finally be over. There are some tips that will help make you flight just a little and more enjoyable. 1 - Fly early and sit on the wing I am not prone to motion sickness but I know plenty of colleagues who are.
Eagle Creek Travel Gear Pack-It Specter On Board Packing Cube Review
I started travelling the world almost 20 years ago and haven't stopped since. I have been to all 4 corners of the world and over the years have refined my travel "recipe". In this case, my recipe is how to pack the most while still being able to travel (in most cases) carry-on only using the one bag approach. The competition Before looking at the Eagle Creek Travel Gear Pack-It Specter On Board, I want to take a second to talk about cheaper products.
Travel Tip: LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt hard drive review
The Physical <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/86909891b5.jpg" alt=""> If you travel frequently, you know how important it is to carry an external hard drive. This is useful for on the road backup but also to carry your data (considering most modern high end laptops are still based on 250GB SSD drives.) But your typical made for home hard drive will have a difficult time putting up with the rigors of travel. Enter the Lacie Rugged Thunderbolt hard drive (also has a USB 3.
Travel Tip: Essential iPhone apps every traveller should have
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2500”] Image by Andrew Butitta used under Creative Commons License [/caption] I love my smartphone because it simplifies or amplifies so many aspects of my life. The smartphone has become an indispensable travel tool. It make every part of travel easier from reserving your airline seats, to buying show tickets to getting around a foreign city. There are thousands upon thousands of travel apps available. I will try to share some of the more useful ones with you.
Travel Tip : The best foldable portable travel bottle
I wrote about the Vapur bottle in April (link) . Go read that article but for anyone that travel (even casually for vacations), goes hiking or camping, this the bottle for you. Easy to to use, easy to clean, super lightweight and packs away super small when empty. Did I mention you should do read my previous article linked above? LOL
Travel Tip: Check your hotel room for bedbugs
I started doing this 15 years ago when I first started to travel to Asia and have done it for every hotel stay since. The minute I walk into a room I drop my luggage in the washroom, remove the bedding and check for bedbugs. Why the washroom? Bedbugs typically hate all tile hotel washrooms and there are very few places for them to hide in there. This make the washroom the safest place to store your luggage until you finish with your bed bug check.
Travel Tip : Snap a picture of your luggage
I have worked in the Air Transportation industry for many years and know airlines take the PAWOB (Passengers without bags) statistic very seriously. Having flown over 1 million miles so far, my bags have been irrecoverably lost only once. Every Time you are about to check in a bag, take a picture of the bag and then another one of the airline bag tag. In the event is is lost, you can show a picture of it to the airline attendant (instead of spending 10 minutes trying to describe what it looks like) and the picture of the bag tag is to show that the routing code was correct when you handed it off.
Travel Tip : Where to shop for airline tickets
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“800”] Image by Julia P used under Creative Commons License [/caption] After hundreds of thousands of air miles (hundreds of trips for business and pleasure), I can safely say the best value tickets are rarely found by searching on travel booking sites (Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, etc). The best way to find a great deal on your next flight is to use a meta search service. This is a service that doesn't directly book flights but rather that searches dozens of them to show you the best deals.
Travel Tip : Bring Your Own
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“1296”] Image by Angelo DeSantis used under Creative Commons License [/caption] For the best travel experience, BRING YOUR OWN STUFF. Everything you think you may want or need on the plane should be brought with you. Why? Because things you buy on a plane are expensive, bad quality and generally not that good. If you want a pillow, bring a small inflatable travel pillow. If you get cold, bring your own sweater. If you are travelling during breakfast, lunch or supper, buy something in the airport and bring it with you.