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Beyond the book – tripwolf’s iPhone app
tripwolf iPhone travel guides improve on the go! tripwolf brings you the newest kind of travel guide. You’ll have access to our entire travel guide library, complete with travel tips from our community, as well as our awesome Footprint and Marco Polo guidebook content. All this, without any roaming costs! Just download and go, even [...] read more
Featured profile – Andreapog
tripwolf user Andreapog (Andrea Posada) has decided to share some of her amazing photos with tripwolf. Andrea, like many of us, expresses her love of travel through capturing and sharing beautiful profiles of people and cities she loves. We are happy to feature some of her photos from Portugal. Feel free to check out her [...] read more
Where to Eat: Trattoria Il Giova
Last night I had a dream about this place – but it was more of a nightmare… The luscious filetti were deep fried and tough, and the home-made ravioli shaped like mezzaluna never showed up. Does this make me a food addict? Perhaps, more on that later, and more to drool over, now. I’m talking about Trattoria [...] read more
tripwolf at Online Revealed 2010
I was lucky enough to fall in with Canada’s edgy e-commerce crowd at the Online Revealed conference, held in Montreal’s Delta Centre-Ville this week. Produced by a couple of chicks e-marketing and radonicrodgersdesign+marketing, this was the 5th year of Online Revealed. The design of the conference is in its name – any person in the travel [...] read more
Where to Eat: Kuma’s Corner, Chicago
My hometown of Chicago is basically one big homage to meat. What do you expect from the former capital of meatpacking and slaughterhouses? If you love meat, every day is your lucky day when you’re in Chicago and my favorite place to start is with a burger at Kuma’s Corner. As if burgers weren’t [...] read more
tripwolf update – New Booking Options!!
tripwolf is constantly improving for your benefit. We have just undergone an update that will improve your hotel search and booking. Now you can compare hotel rates with two of our newest partners, Booking.com and Trivago! Try it out – compare prices here! We have also improved our flight search. We’d love your feedback, thanks! Happy travels! Bon [...] read more
The Meaning of Service
What do beers, socks, apples, paper towels, mandarins, and moon pies all have in common? Not much except they are all random gifts given to me by random Korean shop owners and other people I have met over the past few months. Show your face more than once at any local establishment in South Korea, [...] read more
Expat Life: Finding a New Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick Maker
So you’ve really gone and done it - started a new life abroad, that is. You’ve got your purpose. You’ve got a place to live, or at least to crash until your new home materializes. But who’s going to fix your shoe heels when they get worn down after weeks of exploration? The plot thickens.Building a new [...] read more
Travel Must-Haves – Tips from a Professional Traveler
If you ask 100 expert travelers what item or items they don’t leave home without, you’ll get 100 different answers. When querying these road warriors, the real question should be, “What item or items do you lend most to your fellow travelers?” That way one gets not only a sense of what handy [...] read more
Possibly the Best Scenic Drive in America
What do you think of when the words “scenic drive” come to mind? Driving the famous Route 66 from Los Angeles to Chicago? The hairpin route between Nice, France and Monaco? Well I have some news for you…try the fabled Highway 1 between Santa Barbara and Monterey, California. This amazing drive encompasses the true California lifestyle. [...] read more
