Hard to believe my walk through Soho, London only lasted ten minutes according to the photo timestamps. They were a memorable ten minutes in sexy Soho. This is a continuation of my description for a walk through London I did last week after taking an unplanned voluntary denied boarding for a United London Heathrow to…
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London Walking Tour Trafalgar Square party, Leicester Square theaters, Chinatown food
London Walking Tour Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square in 1 to 2 hours
London Walking Tour in 8 to 10 hours from LHR, introduction
Scenes from Krakow, Poland a new city in my Top 5 Places to Visit

Krakow, Poland was never on my radar, until about four months ago. I had plenty of preconceptions about a trip to Poland. Gray, third world poverty, monotone buildings and dress, horrible food and an Eastern European culture still trying to shed its Soviet era past. That is so far from the reality of Krakow that…
Headed to TBEX Stockholm today

This is notice that Loyalty Traveler will be traveling to Stockholm, Sweden today for the Travel Blog Exchange TBEX Stockholm conference this week. Airfare deals and other news may be scarce for a couple of days, or weeks. This will be my first TBEX conference since 2013 Toronto. I burned out on conferences after a…
Laundry chores when traveling two weeks
Laundry is one of the more challenging tasks of extended travel. Back in 2012 I attended a travel blogger conference TBEX Costa Brava in Girona, Spain. I spent nearly two weeks in Spain on that trip including five nights at one hotel in Girona mid-trip for the conference where I was able to hand wash…
Beautiful Sweet Home Alabama driving U.S. 98 and U.S. 90

Day 2 of my road trip from Orlando, Florida to New Orleans started in Pensacola, Florida on US 98 heading into Alabama. My objective was drive US 98 into Mobile where the road intersects with I-10 and U.S. 90 on the bridge across Mobile Bay and drive right through downtown Mobile on U.S. 90 continuing…
Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Santa Barbara County beach off Highway 1

Nature.org calls Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes the “largest intact coastal dune ecosystem on Earth”. These are sand dunes at the Santa Maria River estuary, some dunes 500 feet in height, along 18 miles of Central California coastline. Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes are the large sand dunes visible from U.S. Route 101 when driving south and coming to the coast…