Deal Alert: Amazing Winter Travel Discount Codes

Buckle your seat belts, the holiday travel discount season is off to an early start!

JetBlue is offering 20% off domestic flights and 15% off international flights booked between now and January 19 for select travel through February. Use code Winter14 at jetblue.com/promo

Need a hotel for your trip? Orbitz is offering 20% off qualifying rooms with the code TRAVELHAPPY all the way through June 30, 2015. Just make sure you book by November 30, 2014.

Stay tuned for CyberMonday holiday travel deals….

Happy Travels!

Sweet Tooth Travels: Date Shakes in the Desert

Palm Springs might be a  post-modern haven of architectural and culinary delights, but when I visit the desert, I head straight out of town to Palm Desert answer the siren song of a roadside oddity: Shields Date Garden, where you’ll find both the 50s era film “The Sex Life of the Date” and the sweet, frozen concoction known simply as a “date shake”.

World famous date shakes, yum (Photo credit: suzannelong, home of both the 50s era film “The Sex Life of the Date” and the sweet, frozen concoction known simply as a “date shake”.

How sweet is a date shake? The first sip is reminiscent of sugar-coated Easter Peeps and a sack of Halloween candy blended together. And it’s cold, Arctic cold, brain-freeze cold.

So what’s the draw? The date shake, when imbibed in the desert air, under the date palms and the blistering sun quickly, becomes the stuff of milkshake dreams – the date’s initial sweetness fades to a funky earthy fruitiness, the extreme iciness becomes the perfect foil to the 100+ heat, and before you know it, the whole creamy concoction is gone.

Baltimore Bites

The Ravens are headed to the Super Bowl, and I’ve had Baltimore, especially its great eats, on the brain all week.

Crab meat, Berger cookies, happy spoons….

Planning on visiting Charm City? Then be sure to take a look at my 6 Things You Can Only Get in Baltimore over at Saveur.com for my entire list of personal favorites

Baltimore’s Berger Cookies, Saveur.com

http://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Things-You-Can-Only-Get-in-Baltimore

 

Have Ham, Will Travel

Hams on a plane; Saveur.com

Ever been tempted to stuff that prosciutto in your pocketbook as you board a flight back to the States? You’re not alone.

I wrote about my ham tales, and travails, for Saveur.com last week. You can read it here:

http://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/How-to-Smuggle-a-Ham

Free National Park Day is June 21

Pack your backpack and start your summer with a free day at the national park of your choice. Just in time for the longest day of the year, the National Park Service is lifting fees at all of the country’s national parks. Visit www.nps.gov for a look at all of your park hopping options.

Joshua Tree National Park