Wrap At Your Own Risk

If you're bearing wrapped gifts while traveling for the holidays, you'll need to check them.

As Peter Greenberg notes, you'll likely just have to unwrap everything at security anyway.

It sounds like common sense in these years of heightened secuirty, but every holiday season thousands of travelers try to carry on beautifully wrapped presents only to be told by TSA agents to unwrap 'em - much to the consternation of the travelers further back in line.

So if you wrap, check your bags.

(This does of course suggest an entrepreneurial opportunity to start gift wrapping services at the airport.)

Also, as Peter notes, if you're carrying food... well, we're not sure what the "subject to additional security screening" means specifically, but if that pie you're traveling with looks like it has a bite taken out of it once it clears security, well...

$150 Off Intrepid Travel

Pauline Frommer tipped us off to this $150 voucher offer from Intrepid Travel (an LA exhibitor).

In addition to the voucher, Intrepid has a "30 trips in 30 days" contest going on as well as 15% discounts on 2012 North American travel if booked by the end of this year.

As someone who loves immersing myself in OPC (Other People's Cultures), Intrepid's tours to some of the less-traveled parts of Africa and South America where you'd stay with the locals (instead of a chain) make these offers especially appealing.

You Can't Ever Get Enough of Samantha Brown

That's why she's featured at every one of our six Travel + Adventure Shows.

In her 11 years at Travel Channel, Samantha has visited dozens of countries, hundreds of cities and countless hotels around the world.

There are tons of Samantha Brown videos on YouTube and we imagine we'll be adding some of those to this blog, but we'll start with this classic that marries travel and adventure, both in the same tube and ends in inimitable Samantha Brown fashion.



And that's why we can't get enough of Samantha Brown.

7th Annual Los Angeles Travel + Adventure Show Coming to Long Beach January 14-15, 2012

Just to get that out there.

We'll be blogging about stuff we think you'll enjoy experiencing at the show, along with some other stuff we find interesting in the lead up to our 2012 event.

We'll try not to bore you with marketing promo over here. For that you can always visit the 'official' site :-)