Go Green Travel Green

For the next 3 weeks, we’ll be traveling across Western Canada and Alaska for our wedding, honeymoon, and a cruise…. If you have a recommended activity or favorite restaurant in any of those places, please pass it along!

Thanks to our friends at Intelligent Travel for selecting my entry as a winner of their Indy Adventure Contest. I wrote about one of Elizabeth’s and my many (mis)adventures - this one in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Head over to IT and check it out.
As a prize I’ll get a box set of Indiana Jones DVDs, which [...]

If environmental reasons (on top of United, US Airways, Northwest Airlines and all the others charging for more than 1 checked bag) aren’t enough to convince you to pack light, try this:
American Airlines will now charge for any piece of checked luggage.
That’s right, even one checked bag will likely cost you. $30 round-trip. [...]

I didn’t want to get married. They would find a husband, throw a party and send me away. I ran away many times. I refused to go back, but my father kept beating me. I was about 10 or 11 years old. I kept running away until I finally stayed with the fourth one because [...]

We have a winner from our CamelBak Water Bottle giveaway!
Bill, who commented on 11 Best Tips for Packing Light, we’ll email you for shipping. You can now ditch your old bottle (or turn it into a solar-powered lantern…).
Thanks for all your comments.

Last month, we reviewed the new BPA-free CamelBak Better Bottle. And with the recent news about the potential dangers of bisphenol A, even die-hard Nalgene fans are turning away from their old polycarbonate bottles.
Now you can, too. We have one BPA-free CamelBak bottle to giveaway to a lucky reader.
To be entered in the contest, just [...]

In case you’ve missed the news over the last few days. Bisphenol A (BPA) bottles are officially on the out. (For more information on the risks of BPA see How to Choose a Healthy Water Bottle: 34 Resources)
Nalgene is going to stop making BPA water bottles and pull them from shelves @MSNBC
and
Walmart is [...]

The New York Times reported yesterday that American Airlines canceled nearly 1100 flights due to technical problems with a fleet of its planes.
As a traveler, I empathize with everyone whose flights got called off, but as an environmentalist I can’t help but think it’s not all bad.

photo credit: Cubbie_n_Vegas
According to the Carbon Footprint calculator, a [...]

If you don’t travel green, you’re sinning.
Or at least that’s my (slightly facetious) extrapolation of some recent news coming down from the Catholic Church.
Since this week is Holy Week in the Christian tradition, (and being raised in, though no longer a member of the Catholic Church piques my interest in these issues) I thought [...]

It’d been a month since I’d been to DCA Reagan National Airport, the most centrally located airport in Washington, DC. In this last month they’ve gotten rid of my favorite gourmet snack shop with healthy fruit, nuts, organic chocolate, and Honest Tea. Now my eating options are much slimmer - greasy pizza and greasier [...]