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The results are in for the most wanted articles on the AirTreks Travel Blog last month. The winner? Planners!
It’s evident people are in the planning stages of their summer travel season. Last month’s top posts were the ones focusing on choosing destinations and deciding where to go. Fairly common for late winter.
Here are the trending posts for February, 2010:
If you’re like us, you can’t get enough of the travel blog universe. And what a big universe it is. So big in fact you may have a hard time wrapping your mind around it, discovering what’s out there and which ones will serve your interests best.
Well fortunately TravelBlogSites.com finds them for you.
Their short bios summarize them to help you find out who’s doing what research for you every day.
They also have a ranked list (below) to see just which are the most popular (aka, better). The list is ranked in order of popularity using metrics data from Alexa and Compete and is updated weekly.
Travel Blog Sites is brought to you by Travel Pod, the web’s premier travel blogging service and lists the 100 most popular travel blogs out there, so get yourself a snack and your bifocals. You’re gonna be here awhile.
Enjoy!
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Ah, the 21st century. It doesn’t seem possible we made it through the stone ages of the nineties without the online conveniences we currently have. But we did, and now here’s a list of great travel tools for the modern international traveler.
Make your traveling life a little easier and bookmark these 10 essential websites:
You’ve chosen, probably unknowingly, the best of the AirTreks blog for the first month of 2010. And from
the looks of it, it appears that money is still weighing heavy on people’s minds; 3 of the 5 top posts are related to saving money on their trip.
Here is your recap of the 5 most popular posts for January 2010:
Anyone using the Web to plan a big trip is probably well-acquainted with the onslaught of information there. Sites can range anywhere from expert to asinine to downright sleazy and will quickly emerge in any random web search. For the most part it’s tricky to tell which are road-tested true and which simply unworthy of your time. 
Because the information deluge is rapid and inescapable, I’ve put together a list of good reads that can help. Below is a grab-bag of articles for desktop travelers suffering from clicker’s fatigue. As a follow-up to my Online Minefield post of a couple months ago, here’s another list of 10 helpful and/or interesting reads for people departing, planning, or simply daydreaming about travel over this holiday season.
Forage on, Internet faithful…
Planning a big around the world trip is never easy. When you’re putting together something that digs so deep into your savings and includes places you’ve wanted to visit since time immemorial, the whole process can seem a bit overwhelming. You might as well be battling the Mongol hordes.
So where do you start?
Not every multi-stop itinerary can be as smooth as a peanut butter sandwich. With airlines having uncompromising schedules and the world simply being an imperfect place, your weary butt sometimes will get caught in the middle of a long layover. It’s a fact of travel life. Since airports are not always known for their scintillating entertainment, what you do can turn that shockingly long wait from excruciating to exceptional.
Here are some suggestions on how to make the most of your itinerary hiccup:
It’s been a crazy year for airline fees. Unbundling has become a four letter word for people who rely on discount plane tickets to get around. Nowadays the cheapest ticket doesn’t always equal the least amount spent. With the airlines unbundling their services, the lowest price usually comes with the most hitches (eg, fees for luggage, seat requests, food, drinks, blankets, smiles and warm cozy feelings).
Fortunately for us Smarter Travel has taken the liberty of composing a chart to keep the endless fees organized. They’ve compiled the info in a handy pdf file to download and print off if you like. Click on the screen shot below for the chart.
The new hot topic is to go a-flashpacking (aka, traveling with technology). Given pop culture’s many new tech-heavy habits the trend isn’t surprising. It does however let you travel with all those internet-age sensibilities you’ve managed to adopt over the past half-decade.
With international wi-fi popping up everywhere, the idea resonates firmly with the traveling community. Blogging from the road, processing your photos from your hotel/hostel bed, sharing music with fellow travelers at a café table, are all now par for the course inside or outside the technorati multitude.
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