Archive for Category: "Today Show"
Getting Your Money Back
What happens if you have to cancel your flight/cruise/tour at the last minute? Chances are, if you didn’t purchase travel insurance, it’s a big, fat nothing. But what about all those service fees, charges and taxes on a product that you didn’t use? That amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars lost. Watch Peter on [...]
Combating Jet Lag
When you travel as much as Peter, you learn how to deal with the consequence of travel. Peter flies more than 400,000 miles a year, and doesn’t suffer from jet lag. But for the rest of us who have to deal with cramped seats, interrupted schedules and basic sleep deprivation, jet lag can be a [...]
Frequent-Flier Follies: Why Airlines Don’t Make Good Banks
From Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Two weeks ago I was in the Turks and Caicos, last week I was in Vail. Now I’m a few thousand miles south and east in Mendoza, Argentina. This is the home of the second annual Masters of Food and Wine. First and foremost, it is imminent that an announcement [...]
Travel Tips from a Travel Hero: Charles Veley, the World’s “Most-Traveled Man”
What kind of man commandeers Chilean vessels to the ends of the earth, jumps islands illegally in West Africa and traverses treacherous Russian roads en route to Vladivostok—stopping only to remind his wife of their daughter’s dentist appointment? Part James Bond, part family man, Charles Veley isn’t quite the guy you might expect. At 42, [...]
Budgeting For Your Travels, TSA Rules, and NASA Stupidity
January 8, 2008 Last week, I did a piece on the Today show on how to budget your travel when airlines, cruise lines and rental car companies don’t fully disclose the real cost of your trip. For example, US Airways has a flight that’s advertised from Orlando to Zurich for $366. But they neglect to [...]
The Wonders of Wisconsin: An Interview with Gov. Jim Doyle
November 13, 2007 Last weekend, I was in Madison, Wisconsin. If you want to know why I was there, that’s easy. Number one: I went to school there. Number two: It’s a very flimsy excuse for me to go to a University of Wisconsin football game. And number three: Of course, it’s one of the [...]
Haunted Hotels: Spooky Destinations All Year-Round
Halloween is a great time to take the kids trick-or-treating and visit houses bedecked with spooky trappings—cobwebs, tombstones and ghosts, galore. If you’re someone who prefers more tricks than treats, then spend a whole night, if you can, at a haunted hotel, where objects levitate, electronics go berserk, doorknobs rattle, nearly sub-audible voices resound, and [...]
Boating Safety Basics
If you missed Peter’s Today show segment on boating safety, we’ve got the scoop for you. With the Fourth of July right around the corner, the topic of boating safety is once again on the radar. Statistically, this holiday is considered to be one of the busiest, and often most deadly, dangerous boating weekends of [...]
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