What do we do when we're not traveling?
Along with shopping, gardening, and busying ourselves with tasks around the house, we spend some time most days in front of our computers plotting future trips and also reading travel blogs.
Right now, for example, we're trying to secure business class mileage award tickets to take us to and from the 2026 FlyerTalk Oz Fest in Darwin, Australia. This kind of research can take up to a couple of hours daily, and you never know when you're going to hit the jackpot.
We read travel blogs for entertainment as well as for information. For example, FlyerTalk (more of a forum than a blog), recently highlighted the Skytrax 2025 list of the world's Top 100 Airlines. There were no big surprises, but we were interested to see that we've flown 7 of the top 10, and 12 of top 20.
The lowest-ranked airline we've flown? Well, we still haven't flown Hawaiian, number 100 on the list and recently acquired by No. 69 Alaska, our current carrier of choice. but we once flew Air Canada Rouge, no. 94.
Such lists are arbitrary and even silly, but they're kind of fun and we'll never fail to click the link and have a look.
We follow a number of interesting "mom and pop" blogs like ours, and someday we may write about them. Today we're sharing a few recent posts from some of the professional travel bloggers we follow, the big guys who make money (a lot of money) from the small commissions they earn by recommending credit cards.
It's doubtful the two of us will ever fly in The Residence, Etihad's A380 three-room suite. Ben Schlappig, the proprietor of One Mile At a Time, gives us the lowdown here and shares a review he wrote. We can dream, can't we?
In 2026 we may be flying a leg in business class on a Singapore Airlines 737 on our way to Australia. Another of our favorite bloggers, Matthew Klint of Live and Let's Fly, offers up a recent review of this unique configuration. That helped us to make the easy decision to book the flight.
Gary Leff, author of View From the Wing, covers a wide range of aviation topics. Today he breaks the news (for us at least) that rental-car giant Hertz is starting to run rental returns through some sort of new-fangled AI "travel scanner" that will immediately identify damage large and small, and charge the renter. Ugh! That one article will definitely influence our future car rental decisions.
Gary also explains why some airlines are confiscating your coffee as you board. It hasn't happened to us... yet.
Now you know how the two of us spend an hour or two daily. We might even share more of our personal "best of the blogs" selections in future.
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