Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations

Travel Leftovers for Lunch

I’ve got three article deadlines staring me in the face this week. Where did the holidays go? So it’s time to do the lazy man’s blogging trick and point to other people’s hard work…

Brazen campaigning. Apparently I’ve been nominated in another Best Travel Blog award thingy and it looks like everyone else is doing a better job at campaigning. So I guess I should ask you to go vote for me before the 10th so I don’t look like the Gravel or Hunter of this presidential campaign season. But hey, it’s a great field: Gadling, Gridskipper, Travel Rants, and more. All of them cover pretty different ground, so I’m not sure that any can really be “best.” Here’s a list of lots of other great travel blogs that’s more extensive.

USAirways still sucks.  Management tried to improve their baggage handling and on-time performance by dangling bonuses out there for workers this holiday season. The goals weren’t all that high: 60 percent on-time performance and 7 bags lost out of every 1,000. Of course the airline still doesn’t have enough people and many of the best ones left long ago, so they failed. Everyone gets a late lump of coal in the stocking.

Blackberries on vacation should be as rare as fly fishing in the office. Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-hour Workweek asks what would happen if you protected your personal time as strongly as your family time?

Execs find the off button. Here’s an interesting trend, though I have a feeling “trend” may be too strong a word. A few executives are realizing that being always connected while on vacation is pretty dumb, so they’re looking for dropout destinations with no signal.

The travel talisman examined in detail by Vagabondish. I can’t say I’ve ever carried a travel talisman, but Perceptive Travel did a whole story about Joshua Berman’s little Buddha.

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