I'm going to come right out and say it. The Travel Genius was wrong and completely befuddled by the severity and strength of the COVID-19 virus. As I menti...

Cutting through the media hype and fear regarding traveling during the Coronavirus scare.

Alaska Airlines to join Oneworld Alliance

It's been a fun ride through Greece so far, but we're not done yet, and now we're getting into the more diverse parts of the country as we head North. In th...

Let me just preface this post by saying I am an airline snob. An avgeek elitist if you will. I've lived and breathed the airline world since that time in 1...

**This article originally appeared on my FL310 Travel Blog on December 3, 2016. It's been updated for this website.** I have been waiting to try Cunard's Qu...

The Cradle of Civilization. Home of the Great Thinkers. Home of Democracy. More Mercedes Benz taxicabs per square meter than all of Germany. Greece's lar...

Welcome back! I hope you've enjoyed the first part of this series, covering all of the Peloponessian Peninsula. It is a fantastic, capitvating, and mythica...

When most tourists (especially first-timers) think of visiting Greece, they think of Athens and ithe Acropolis, the Islands, and the food. But what do you d...

** This article originally appeared on the FL310 Travel Blog on July 27, 2018. It has been updated for this website** My apologies to Chairman Sinatra for a...

Last October it was decided by the family to go back to Greece for the Summer of 2019. Since I'm the Travel Genius (you'll laugh at the kick in the pants ka...

It has been said that one cannot return to the home they once knew. Well, I put that to the test this last week. Back in 2015, it was announced that MCR Mors...

** This article originally appeared on the FL310 Travel Blog on June 27, 2015. It has been updated for this website** Nowadays, I go on to these pages where...

*As this IS in journal format, it is rougher around the edges than my normal entries* Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - Downtown Los Angeles, CA Today was shaping u...

Have you ever arrived at your destination with a preconceived notion of what your hotel might be like in terms of vibe or decor? I think we all have at some...

*As this IS in journal format, it is rougher around the edges than my normal entries* Prelude On Doctor's orders I was grounded from traveling for 6 months d...

In my short 36 years here on this planet, I've come to realize airlines come and go, and people being what they are, are always looking for a bargain basemen...

As the title suggests, and as P.T. Barnum famously said, there's a sucker born every minute.  In this case, wealthy Greeks on both sides of the Atlantic have...

**My first article on the new Salt Lake City International Airport appeared in the April 2015 issue of Airways Magazine.  As happens in reality, quite a few ...

*This article was originally posted on the FL310 blog space on March 11, 2019* It has been a long time coming.  Everyone I know has been talking about it for...