Tag: Travel
NINJA New York: Smoking Food & Sword-Wielding Ninja Waiters
My father, @CognitiveFlex, visited me this past weekend in New York City, and we unintentionally found ourselves in several surreal situations that felt totally immersive and like back-to-back movie sets. First, we visited the McKittrick Hotel for Sleep No More, Punchdrunk's Macbeth-themed choose yo ...
Clinic: The Bar That Served Cocktails From An IV Drip
While visiting my brother in Singapore a few years back, I remember a bizarrely distasteful bar that I discovered in his neighborhood of Clarke Quay. It was called Clinic, and it was designed like a hospital with festive golden wheelchairs planted around cool, iron surgical tables.
When you enter ...
Face To Facebook: Using Facebook To Overcome Fears
I don't think a day goes by when I don't read at least one story about how Facebook either builds or destroys relationships. At least yesterday there was some balance to the madness. First I read a story about a guy who "accidentally" had sex with an exotic dancer at his bachelor party. His brand ne ...
Hotel Brochure Pictures vs. The Actual Hotels
It's been the joke on more sitcoms than I can count, but has it ever actually happened to you? I'm talking about when you see a hotel brochure, you call and book a room, you get there, and you feel like you are in the twilight zone because it looks so different than the pictures on the brochure.
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Unusual Hotels: The Underground Cozy Cave Hotel In Sweden
There are so many unusual and interesting hotels in the world, and I think it would be a lot of fun to take a trip around the world, visit all my social media friends, and stay in these wildly unique hotels. Sweden seems to be a place with a lot of these kind of places. I stumble across them often. ...
Igloo Hotel: Pure Zen In The Middle Of All The Snow
I am a real sucker for travel experiences and if I had to choose I would go for an experience rather than some gadget or a toy. The experience lasts a lifetime while a gadget only lasts as long as its technology is fresh enough to be compatible with the world. I recently wrote an article about the T ...
Drainage Tube Hotel: Next Generation Recycled Living
The space we occupy in this physical world is getting ever smaller while the space we take up virtually is getting ever larger. It's quite interesting really how we're migrating into the virtual world one step at a time. I am guessing in 50 years the world will look a lot different than it looks tod ...
Insane Living: A Whole Room In A Compact Box
The world is getting ever smaller they say. As a little kid, I never used to quite understand what the adults who said that were talking about, but as I grew older, I understood that it didn't have to do with the world as a physical object. With all the new technology, infrastructure and transportat ...
![How To: Avoid Large Phone Bills When Traveling [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Avoiding-Large-Travel-Phone-Bills-1-optimized.jpg "How To: Avoid Large Phone Bills When Traveling [Infographic]")
How To: Avoid Large Phone Bills When Traveling [Infographic]
We all know that sometimes traveling can become a costly endeavor. If we forget to turn off roaming on our cell phone, we're pretty much screwed. Bills upwards of thousands of dollars will most likely start pouring down our mail chute, and we'll be banging our heads against the wall wishing we had b ...
The Most Unusual Hotels In the World
The hotel industry must be one of the hardest industries to be in out of all of them. Why? Well, you have to be on the leading edge in order to keep your visitors coming back. When I think about it, it's much like having a website to run. You have to keep it updated and on the edge with the very lat ...
![Tipping Etiquette Around The World [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Tipping-Etiquette-Around-The-World-1-optimized.png "Tipping Etiquette Around The World [Infographic]")
Tipping Etiquette Around The World [Infographic]
I think I have touched on this subject before, and I didn't get any more clever because of it. As you can read from one of my earlier articles, tipping is a pretty interesting concept, and it is handled differently in each country around the world. In the U.S., I always tipped 20% if not more. It is ...
Expert Driving Techniques Everyone Needs To Know
Remember when everyone used to ask for fun, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Then CNN, MSNBC and most of the other news websites published the definitive answer, as determined by some obviously very smart scientists. The egg came first.
One of the next most common riddles is, "Who are ...
Traveling Geeks: The Ultimate Wireless Luggage Finder
Finding our luggage at the airport baggage claim can be really stressful. That is why I don't even like checking luggage. I'm flying all the way to China in May, and I'm doing it with a small carry-on. It's just too much of a hassle to get huddled up with all those people in baggage claim.
Some p ...
8 Ways Twitter Can Make You A Better Person
I enjoy being on Twitter. I am on that site all the time. I started using Twitter in 2008, and I have seen firsthand its tremendous growth. I remember the days when there were very few of us who tweeted 24/7. We interacted with our Twitter friends all the way up until we fell asleep at night, an ...
5 Lessons To Learn When Leaving Your Comfort Zone
I recently left home, and now I live approximately 8,900 miles away. I know from experience this kind of change takes a lot of adjusting. When I decided to take the job in Cincinnati, Ohio, I knew that I would be leaving my comfort zone. I grew up with my family around me all the time, and it is ...