For many travellers, the most stressful parts of a trip are packing, getting through security, and the fear that your suitcase won’t be at your destination to greet you at the baggage carousel. So a service that allows you to avoid the [...]
Just before our trip last month to Washington, D.C., Steve surprised me with an early birthday gift. It was a Briggs & Riley BRX Excursion laptop backpack I had been eyeing at my favourite local travel accessories store, U.N. Luggage. [...]
When Steve checked in at London’s Heathrow airport for his recent Air Canada flight home, he decided to check his carry-on bag. It was bulging with the purchase of new shoes (yes, again) and he feared it wouldn’t fit in [...]
Tagging along on the business conference your spouse is attending can be a great way to explore a new place inexpensively. It has some challenges, though—depending on the location, conference itinerary, and your level of flexibility. I recently attended the [...]
Whether I’m travelling on vacation or tagging along on Steve’s business trips, there are a few indulgences that I have a twinge of guilt/embarrassment about. These guilty travel pleasures are relatively harmless, but I don’t readily reveal them so shhhhh … [...]
A super big thank-you to Jenni from the Just Chasing Rabbits blog, who has bestowed Tag Along Travel with a Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! Jenni is from the American state I love to spell – Mississippi. She and [...]
Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) is a place in transition. Its rapidly soaring tech industry is rising around the city’s fragile infrastructure and a multitude of citizens living in poverty. My tag along trip with Steve, who was teaching a couple of [...]
Hoi An is known for its romantic, lantern-lit streets, riverside restaurants, and tailor shops that will design made-to-measure clothing at rates and with a turnaround time impossible for a North American to imagine. We were looking forward to this stop [...]
This week, Steve and I are off for a month of travel. After several weeks of Steve’s back-to-back business trips, it will be nice to spend some time with the guy who keeps me well supplied in travel points. [...]