Category: Travel

The World’s Best Tourists for 2011

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 8, 2012

Web Watch does love to travel, and when we do we try to be the best, most considerate traveler we can be.

It’s not always like that, however.

We often find ourselves trying to be extra-polite to cover for those miscreants we run across who just give tourists a bad name. They’re the ones who really ruin siteseeing for everyone.

Do we really need to have a gum-filled wall in Seattle?

Really? Well, it might be considered “art” there… but it’s certainly not considered “art” when seen in a queue line at the local amusement park, is it?

Nope, there it’s just tacky, tacky. Literally, in some places.

Tags 10 Things, Disney, Katy Perry, Las Vegas

10 Things Gambling Travel

What to do in Vegas? In 2011, “not gamble” was on the list

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 19, 2012

Weird Las Vegas and Nevada: Your Alternative Travel Guide to Sin City and the Silver State
Weird Las Vegas and Nevada:
Your Alternative Travel Guide to Sin City and the Silver State

Web Watch loves visiting Las Vegas.

Then again, we also agree with our friends who say that “a little Las Vegas goes a long way”. In other words, these people don’t necessarily enjoy the entire gambling, casino, nightlife, gambling aspect of Sin City.

Web Watch knows people that took a vacation out to Nevada and other points west, and their Las Vegas experience consisted solely of driving down the Las Vegas Strip. They didn’t stop, they didn’t browse. They had lunch as a nearby McDonald’s (not even at the In-n-Out!) before continuing on their merry way.

We don’t blame them. There are aspects of Las Vegas that we don’t appreciate either. But to each their own.

But then the Nevada Gaming Control Board decided to come out with their compilation of revenue numbers and financial analysis of the 2011 gambline business, and the numbers look a bit unusual to us here at Web Watch.

Tags 10 Things, business, Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Travel

10 Things Travel

Seven rights you don’t have when you take a cruise

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 18, 2012

What You Need to Know About Your First Cruise – Cruise Like a Pro Your First Time

Have you ever taken a cruise before?

Well, they’re a lot of fun. And not filled with old people playing shuffleboard. Of course, it helps if you’re able to take a cruise with a large group of people, so you always have someone fun to hang out with besides your Significant Other.

But let’s keep in mind that a cruise ship is its own entity – especially when it gets out into International Waters, where almost anything can happen when you’re outside of a specific country’s jurisdiction.

So in order to keep order, cruise lines have tiny fine print on the back of their tickets (maybe not literally, but at least figuratively) that you have to sign away on when you agree to board the boat.

Tags 10 Things, Cruise, Travel

10 Things Travel

The 25 Least Expensive Places to Live

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 16, 2012

Cost of Living and Doctor's Fees in 1848
Cost of Living and Doctor’s Fees in 1848

Sometimes it’s not so much how you live as where you live that determines how much money you can really save over the course of a year.

And we can thank the COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (C2ER) for their annual COST OF LIVING report that lists the LEAST EXPENSIVE CITIES to live in, based on the monthly rent for a 2-bedroom apartment, monthly average house payment, a gallon of gas, a hamburger, and a 1/2-gallon of milk.

Tags 10 Things, business, Save Money, Travel

10 Things How To Travel

How to avoid getting sick when travelling by plane

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 21, 2011

Airborne

It’s the holiday travel season, and tons of Web Watch readers are going to find themselves flying on a crowded plane, more than likely sitting next to somebody who’s just getting over the flu.

It’s like the giant lottery of luck, who you get to sit next to on the plane. Everybody eyes the other people at the terminal, wondering who gets to be lucky enough to sit next to that young attractive man or woman while avoiding eye contact with that overweight, unwashed hairy dude wearing a torn muscle shirt.

Eww.

Tags airplane, germs, health, Travel

10 Things Travel

How many vowels are there in the English alphabet? If you answered “5”, you may be wrong

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 19, 2011

American Dialects for Actors, Directors, and Writers

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

According to Rick Aschmann, there may be just the standard 5 vowels that everybody knows (a, e, i, o u), but when it comes to pronouncing those same letters, there are at least 16 different vowel sounds that people use around the country.

Tags 10 Things, language, Party Talk, Travel

Gadgets Internet Travel

Texting while driving will kill you

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 11, 2011

TextAppeal - For Guys! - The Ultimate Texting Guide
TextAppeal – For Guys! – The Ultimate Texting Guide

A quick survey: how many of you regularly send texts while driving or otherwise sitting behind the wheel of your car?

Yeah, we thought so.

Texting while driving has increased 50% over 2011. 20% of all drivers say that they’ve done this, despite laws and other regulations in place that make it an offense to do so.

Tags Cars, cellphone, gadget, texting, Travel

10 Things Travel Video Games

The 25 Worst Cities to Live In

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 18, 2011

Grand Theft Auto

If you’re a video game addict — and let’s face it, if you have at least two “sequel” games in your game library you probably qualify — then you may have sometimes used video games as a way to escape your mundane, humdrum life.

Because who wouldn’t want to be that guy in Grand Theft Auto who can just run around and carjack whatever he feels like sometimes? Drive around and run bad drivers off the road?

Yeah, feels kinda good, doesn’t it?

Tags 10 Things, game, Travel, video games