Last November, I visited Morocco for the first time. I found myself up to my ears in olives and tagines and enthralled with the chaos of the local souks (markets/bazaars) I visited. To check out my Morocco coverage from the trip, head over here. Now that the trip has been over for months, all I…
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The Simple Fix For That Broken Zipper on Your Luggage
Your flight leaves in three hours. Your zipper broke three seconds ago. How are you going to get your massive suitcase back to Topeka without your bathing suit winding up in the cargo hold on an A380? The answer is simple: use plastic wrap. It’s nowhere near a permanent solution, but if you’ve got a…
Thou Shalt Not Gas: 7 Surprising Foods to Avoid Before Flying
Another day, another outlet posting about not eating beans before flights. It’s a little old, don’t you think? Actually, that’s rather rude of me because the group that made the post is AARP, the advocacy group for retired people that also sounds like the noise a seal makes. They posted “10 Foods to Avoid Before…
Fly&Dine’s Hotel Brunch Buffet Rules
You want to brunch, son? You want to buffet like a baller? Then drop the soup and listen to me. I’ve been hitting hotel brunch buffets since Justin Bieber was in short pants (he still is, though, right?). I know the secrets of the steam trays. I’m cool with the curiosities of carving stations. I’m…
How Long Does It Take You To Pack?
I love traveling. If you’re reading Fly&Dine, a blog about eating while you travel, I have to assume that you love traveling, too. Either that, or you’re either my Mom or my Facebook friend (Hi Mom!). Traveling allows us to step outside of our daily lives and, ironically, actually live. That means forgetting about carpools…
The Best Tip for Thanksgiving Travel
The media is saturated with tips and tricks for surviving the super stressful beast that is holiday travel. I think they largely miss the point. I have one simple tip that will make your Thanksgiving traveling easier this year and if you can manage to stick to it, you’ll be a lot happier by the…
Brilliant Food Hack: Pizza Cutter to the Rescue
Let’s talk about salads for a second. I like eating salads. I hate making salads. Seriously, there is some sort of vortex that I fall into whilst making a salad that legitimately makes the final product taste worse. Chopping, mixing, assembling. Too much damn work for me. If you give me the same salad in…
Infographic: Say Goodbye to Jet Lag
We’re in the thick of summer travel season and if you’re headed overseas (or even across the country), you’re going to want to check out these tips for ditching jet lag: via Thomas Cook
In-Flight Cocktail Hacks
Stuck in an in-flight cocktail rut? Tired of the same old gin & tonic/rum & Coke/vodka cranberry options from the beverage cart? Bon Appetit is here to help. Restaurant and drinks editor Andrew Knowlton, aka The Foodist, has come up with three cocktail hacks to transform your next sky drink into a much happier occasion.…
The Genius LAX In & Out Burger Trick
UPDATE 4/29/15: Is this trick dead? Read about the Parking Spot’s big changes right over here. An ENORMOUS tip of the hat to the ladies of Heels First Travel for this incredible trick that gets you a ride to LA’s famous In & Out Burger and back to LAX FOR FREE. Got a layover and…