Archive for August, 2010
Vacation Video from Budget Travel
Posted by: | CommentsThe July/August issue of Budget Travel has a handy primer for shooting better vacation video. Digital Video 101 covers not only tips to capture footage, but makes suggestions and recommendations for types of cameras and video-hosting websites.
Taco Taco is a Favorite Favorite in San Antonio San Antonio
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I love me some good Tex-Mex food and San Antonio, Texas, is no stranger to creative Mexican cuisine. While there are tons of eateries, some good others not so much, clustered in the tourist district along the famous River Walk, my favorite San Antonio grub comes from a small, unassuming place far from the visitors’ usual haunts.
Located near the intersection of Hildebrand and McCullough Avenues, Taco Taco impresses not with its decor, but with tasty breakfast tacos so good Bon Appetit declared the place as home of the best tacos in America.
Local friends tell me lines of hungry fans often snake around the restaurant on weekends just waiting to fill up on their favorites from among almost 20 different types of breakfast tacos. With homemade tortillas wrapping up your favorite ingredients, it’s easy to wait in line to dine on these heavenly tacos.
Weather or Not, National Weather Center is on Alert
Posted by: | CommentsEach Wednesday this summer, TravelBlur is teaming with The Oklahoma Gazette to feature an Oklahoma City metro-area travel attraction.
This week’s article highlights the National Weather Center.
“When the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain, the meteorologists at Norman’s National Weather Center, 120 David L. Boren Blvd. on the University of Oklahoma campus, are on high alert to anticipate Mother Nature’s sometimes-nasty moods.”
American Airlines iPhone App Soars
Posted by: | CommentsA few days before a recent flight to Chicago I received one of those annoying promotional emails from American Airlines encouraging me to download the airline’s free iPhone app. Since I was about to hop an American flight, I thought I’d give it a try.
What I found was pretty standard: flight schedules, a place to view my reservations, a terminal map for a few of AA’s hub airports and online check in. You can even monitor your place on the standby list. What I didn’t expect were mobile boarding passes.
Maybe this is no big deal, but I’m not all that tech savvy (shocking I know) so I thought this was pretty cool stuff. The ability to check in online and print boarding passes from home has been around for awhile, but the AA app allowed me to create a mobile boarding pass on my handy-dandy iPhone which I just showed to the TSA folks and the gate agent. The app actually creates a scannable boarding pass right on my screen. Nothing to print, nothing to keep up with (other than my phone) no paper, no fuss.
Maybe every flier at the airport is already doing this and I’m just late to the party, but I’m glad I finally arrived.
Calling On The Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History
Posted by: | CommentsEach Wednesday this summer, TravelBlur is teaming with The Oklahoma Gazette to feature an Oklahoma City metro-area travel attraction.
This week’s article highlights the Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History.
“Alexander Graham Bell might be surprised by how much his invention has changed since that first telephone call to Mr. Watson. Lucky for him, he could track his machine’s evolution at the Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History.”
