Category: Stories

• NYC: So Much to Do in Historic Bowling Green Area

  

  A month ago, my husband Robert and I traveled to Manhattan in order to go through the final steps needed to obtain Global Entry status.  In order to complete this process  which hopefully moves you faster through T.S.A. lines and U.S. Customs, you have to go for a final interview. The historic Alexander Hamilton U.S.…

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  November 17, 2014

  Foodie, General, Historical Travel, Stories

• Thanks WAMC and Things to Do In NYC This Week: Grand Central Holiday Fair

  Thanks to Jessica Bloustein Marshall of WAMC for inviting me over yesterday afternoon for Vox-Pop! I had a wonderful time meeting speaking with Ray Graf about travel, and we received some great questions from their listeners. It was great to meet Alan Chartock as well. Thanks also for inviting me back! I look forward to…

  kimsswidler

  November 14, 2014

  General, New York, New York City, New York Travel, Stories

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• Travel Gal’s Fifth Anniversary : I’ll be on WAMC Tomorrow to Celebrate!

  Happy Fifth Anniversary to Travel Gal! For half a decade, I’ve had a wonderful time writing about trips and tips about so many travel topics including foodie alerts, events, and deals. And to celebrate, I’m appearing on WAMC’s Vox Pop tomorrow,November 13, 2014, between 2:00 and 3:00 pm. Thanks so much for reading my posts.…

  kimsswidler

  November 12, 2014

  General, Stories

• Airlines Profit From Cheap Fuel

  Click HERE to read how the airlines have profited from cheaper fuel costs. For instance, the AP reports that United Airlines was able to cut its fuel bill by $135 million compared with last year’s third quarter. Does that mean lower ticket prices for us?  Not likely, as it’s also reported that the big airlines…

  kimsswidler

  November 8, 2014

  Aeroplanes, Airplane stories, Stories

• Fashion Travel: Met’s Exhibit-“Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire”

  

  Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, the Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, is on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014, through February 1, 2015. The exhibition explores the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early…

  kimsswidler

  October 27, 2014

  Fashion and Travel, General, Museum travel, New York Travel, NYC & Company, Stories

• Transportation Concerns for When We Retire

  Check out Harriet Edelson’s interesting article about what transportation we should plan to use as we age and seek to retire. The article focuses on retirees who may have to give up the use of their car either for economic reasons or because they’re no longer fit to drive. Ms. Edelson reports that, although transportation…

  kimsswidler

  October 18, 2014

  Senior Travel, Stories

• In-flight germs: How to fight them and are the airlines doing enough?

  Thanks for all of the responses to my post about what creates “air rage.”  One source of anger that I’m hearing more and more relates to sick fellow passengers who are careless in spreading their illness. In light of the current Ebola fears, I think that we all can expect this complaint to continue to…

  kimsswidler

  October 15, 2014

  Airline policies, airplane travel tips, General, Stories, Tips, Travel Health

  Travel Health

• New Jersey: Lighthouse Fall Tours-October 18th &19th

  New Jersey Tourism wants us to know that their iconic lighthouses will be open for fall tours on October 18th and 19th of this year.   Most of the following museums and lighthouses are open at 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m., although there are exceptions. Here’s what they say: Twin Lights of Navesink 2…

  kimsswidler

  October 7, 2014

  New Jersey Travel, Stories

• What Creates “Air Rage”?

  Why do many of us get so angry during airplane travel? What ticks you off the most? For me, an obvious one is when someone tries to stuff so much in the overhead compartment above my seat that something ( of course almost always heavy) falls on my head. Check out Stephanie Rosenbloom’s article about…

  kimsswidler

  October 2, 2014

  Airplane stories, airplane travel tips, General, Stories

• Stunned Icelandair passenger treated to surprise food themed stopover

  Robert and I are headed to Iceland later this year to hopefully see the Northern Lights which, as I’ve mentioned before, is high on my bucket list of experiences. Icelandair today released a great short video of a passenger getting the thrill of her life as she was treated to a surprise, 48-hour stopover in…

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  September 25, 2014

  Foodie, Foodie Finds, General, Iceland, Stories