Ryan Joy (atxryan)

ITA is behind the reservations systems for many major airlines around the world, as well as travel sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others. Bing Travel also relies on the software. Google, if allowed to complete the acquisition, would thus…

The initial rule change has been postponed a few times to give travelers time to apply for a passport and the government time to process them, but now it’s to go into effect June 1st. Forms of identification that were previously accepted at land crossings such as voter registration cards and birth certificates, will no [...]

Well, we’ve been in Rio for three full days now and have not been mugged or had anything stolen. Yay! We left Natal on a true red eye flight at 2:40am and arrived in Rio around 6am. Seriously.  We took a cab from the airport to Copacabana and got to see some of the favelas [...]

Finally, we went to the beach!  I think it goes without saying that the beaches are very beautiful here.  The sun is bright, sand is soft, and the water is a perfect temperature.  The waves here break very close to the shore and the current is very strong, making swimming a little more dangerous and [...]

One notable cultural difference between Brazil and the United States is the method of campaigning during election time. Right now is the time to elect city councilmen and mayors throughout the country. Here in Natal/Parnamirim there are hired cars with the politicians name on them that drive around all day blasting music and political propaganda [...]

After sleeping for what seemed like an eternity, we awoke to a gorgeous day here in Parnamirim. Parnamirim (´little river´) is a town just outside of Natal. We´re actually just down the street from the local airport/military airbase. As Jade noted in my previous post, Parnamirim appears to be a very poor municipality though our [...]

We made it to Brazil! This, despite a couple of missed connections in both the U.S. and Brazil. Jade provides the details below: So first flight left on time, or maybe just a few minutes late, but as we got to Charlotte (our connection to Miami) there were bad storms or maybe just communication issues [...]

Tomorrow Jade and I head out for our vacation to Brazil! We’ll be gone for two weeks and without mobile phone or computer or Internet or Twitter for the entire trip. I’m kind of freaking out about that whole lack of connectivity thing, but I’m sure I’ll get over it quickly. I’ll pop into an [...]

Jade, Bryan, and I took a snowboarding trip to Salt Lake City, Utah January 24-29th. Neither of them had ever even seen real snow and none of us had ever been skiing, snowboard, or otherwise. We drove from SLC to Eden and stayed in a vacation condo at Wolf Creek Resort, which we found through [...]