Forget Orbitz, Expedia, and all those other airfare sites you use now. If you're not using the sites below, you're wasting valuable time, and probably not finding the lowest fares:
Kayak
Mobissimo
Sidestep
All three search for lowest price car and hotel deals as well! They allow you to be as vague or as specific as you want in your searches as well (for example, after you run a search for flights, you can use a slider to set your maximum price).
Go check them out.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
Uncanny.
I was just looking through the blog archives, and I realized that thanks to all the changes and delays in my trip, I will now be leaving on the one year anniversary of this blog! May 15, 2005 was my first post. May 15, 2006 is my first flight. I couldn't have planned it any better.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...
Well, I've been AWOL for a bit, having been sick and then out of town. And in that time, there have been some major changes to the trip.
The impetus for the changes was my brother's wedding in November. Since I have to be back in the States then, it makes the most sense to split my trip into two parts, before and after the wedding. Unfortunately, I had to be in New Zealand by July 7, which put certain restrictions on how I could structure my trip.
Those restrictions are now gone. The wonderful people at New Zealand Immigration were extremely accomodating, and gave me a five-month extension on my working holiday visa. So now I don't need to be in New Zealand until December 7. Once I had this extension, I made several extended phone calls to Delta, attempting to (a) change my flight to NZ to after the wedding, and (b) get a new flight to Asia before the wedding.
The upshot of all this is that I am flying to Singapore on May 15. From there, I will be exploring Asia for 5 1/2 months, heading back to the States on November 1. Then I will be heading out again November 16, leaving for New Zealand and Australia.
Obviously, I've decided to forego Europe and Africa (which were possibilities on this trip) in order to focus on Asia and Oceania. Which is fine by me - I'm still going to visit Africa sometime, and I've spent a decent amount of time in Europe already.
And who knows, I could always add more to this trip if I get the chance...
The impetus for the changes was my brother's wedding in November. Since I have to be back in the States then, it makes the most sense to split my trip into two parts, before and after the wedding. Unfortunately, I had to be in New Zealand by July 7, which put certain restrictions on how I could structure my trip.
Those restrictions are now gone. The wonderful people at New Zealand Immigration were extremely accomodating, and gave me a five-month extension on my working holiday visa. So now I don't need to be in New Zealand until December 7. Once I had this extension, I made several extended phone calls to Delta, attempting to (a) change my flight to NZ to after the wedding, and (b) get a new flight to Asia before the wedding.
The upshot of all this is that I am flying to Singapore on May 15. From there, I will be exploring Asia for 5 1/2 months, heading back to the States on November 1. Then I will be heading out again November 16, leaving for New Zealand and Australia.
Obviously, I've decided to forego Europe and Africa (which were possibilities on this trip) in order to focus on Asia and Oceania. Which is fine by me - I'm still going to visit Africa sometime, and I've spent a decent amount of time in Europe already.
And who knows, I could always add more to this trip if I get the chance...
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