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Best Practices/Making Life Easier: Travel Apps and Tech

Published on May 16, 2013 By brendabethman

By Brenda Bethman It’s finals week here at UMKC. Combine that with what has become a fairly intense travel schedule, and I’ve got summer travel on the brain. This summer, I’ve got three trips coming up — taking students to St. Louis in May, a seminar in Germany in June, and a vacation in Wisconsin [...]

Linkage Love: Finding Cheap Flights

Published on December 5, 2012 By kmagura

By Kathryn Magura Whether you’re traveling for pleasure or work, it seems that we are all looking for ways to travel as inexpensively as possible. I know for me, if I am going to have to pay to check luggage and to eat on my flight (and who knows what else they will decide to [...]

Traveling Technology Frustration

Published on November 13, 2012 By brendabethman

This semester, I’ve been traveling quite a bit — and in fact just returned from the annual National Women’s Studies Association conference, held in Oakland this past weekend. We have written before about traveling with tech (see here, here, and here for examples), but one thing we haven’t yet addressed is how frustrating traveling with [...]

What’s in Your Travel Bag?

Published on August 22, 2012 By brendabethman

By Brenda Bethman Recently Ive come across a couple of posts (here and here) discussing the pros and cons of traveling with only an iPad. As I have a heavy semester of travel ahead of me (Im currently at the beginning of the first of five (!!!) trips Ill be making this fall), Ive been [...]

Traveling With Technology

Published on May 30, 2011 By brendabethman

By Brenda Bethman As I mentioned in Friday’s short post, I was on the road this past weekend in St. Louis, for a combination of business and personal travel. In general, May has been a busy travel month, with trips to St. Louis and New Hampshire earlier in the month. All this traveling has given me [...]