Kristi Barrow

It’s 2010 and I am in New York City! It is so cold, but this won’t stop me getting out and about!
While I am here in New York I hope to visit:

The Museum of Modern Art. There is a Tim Burton exhibition running until April that I hear is fantastic.

The Guggenheim Museum. The Kadinsky, is coming to a close on Jan 13, 2010.

A View from the Bridge. I am super excited to see Scarlet Johansson’s Broadway debut in A View from the Bridge, the new revival of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy.

I am not sure how long the new site has been up, but I just rediscovered one of my favourite websites from 2000, Airtoons.com.

Airtoons is a parody site of airline safety cards and had me in stitches on planes in North America in 2000.

It seems to be the week I reminisce about my old employer, Expedia. Check out Tim Hughes’ thoughts on: Expedia trialling Wotif display format in Australia. Expedia.com.au has previously trialled this around 2006/2007.

The Expedia.com.au blog has been surprisingly quiet recently. In fact the last post was over 7 months ago. Have they given up on the idea of the blog?

Worldmate has finally released an iPhone app. Worldmate used to be my travel itinerary manager of choice when I worked off a blackberry, but I switched to TripIt when I began using my iPhone. Although neither had an iPhone “app”, at least Tripit had a iphone friendly browsing experience. At the time (July 08?) Worldmate’s stance was that their users didn’t have iphones so they had no plans for iPhone product development. I guess they must have …

Continuing on from Useful Gadgets for travelling, here is my list of useful stuff for travelling. All this stuff should fit easily into a purse or bag so there is no excuse for not being prepared!

I have always loved to travel, and in my last job with Expedia as Marketing Director for Australia & New Zealand I was lucky enough to do a fair bit of travel.  I always enjoyed travelling for work; provided I had a bit of time to myself to sight-see and play tourist.  What I did work out pretty quickly, was that there were some a few essential items I needed to travel with to make my travelling easier, better, funner …