From the category archives:

Fun Travel Stories

Human Versions of Internet Pop-Up Ads

January 8, 2010

Note: This is part nine in a series of fun travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope. Need to find the right hotel for you? Try Funnelscope!
Most people aren’t fans of internet pop-up ads.  In fact, they loathe them and quickly click on the browser button to delete them.
Well, what happens when you encounter [...]

Read the full article →

Daddy What Sound Does A Sea Lion Make?

January 8, 2010

Note: This is part eight in a series of fun travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope. Need to find the right hotel for you? Try Funnelscope!
Kids are awesome. Traveling with kids can be a challenge – sometimes even a challenge to your ego.
The three short videos below were [...]

Read the full article →

Glass Bottom Boat – Scuba Diving With Kids

January 8, 2010

Note:  This is part seven in a series of fun travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope.  Need to find the right hotel for you?  Try Funnelscope!
So how do you scuba dive with kids?  Try a glass bottom boat.
On first thought, a glass bottom boat invokes images of an entire hull made of [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: Mmmm…Piranha

January 5, 2010

This is the sixth post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope.
Continuing with stories in the Amazon from my previous post, one of the days our group went out in canoes to fish for piranha. Fishing required a rope, hook, and pieces of red [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: Dolphins in the Amazon

December 28, 2009

This is the fifth post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope.
The amazon is an amazing place. What blew my mind was to learn that there are actually fresh water dolphins that live in the amazon’s rivers. I always thought of them as beautiful [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: “Please Stay Alive til We Land”

December 18, 2009

This is the fourth post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope. I’m excited about this one because it’s not my story…it’s from one of FunnelScope’s users, a fashion model from New York named Krista Gamble.
She admits her story falls into the “not-so-funny” category [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: Some Things You Just Gotta See

December 16, 2009

This is the third post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope.
The following pictures are from the Bolivian salt desert (Salar de Uyuni). This is a spectacular sight that you have to experience. It formed when two continents collided, trapping the ocean’s salt water. [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: Kidnapping Wild Jaguar Cub from Bolivian Jungle

December 11, 2009

The second post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope.

Let me start by saying I did not actually kidnap the jaguar cub and preferred that we didn’t for lots of reasons.
In 2007, I decided to take a trek into the Bolivian jungle. I went [...]

Read the full article →

FunnelScope Funnies: Fun Travel Stories

December 7, 2009

Given that FunnelScope is an innovative, new travel search site with a social twist (exciting social features coming in 30-45 days!), we decided to launch a new theme for folks to share funny (and not-so-funny) travel stories.
Admit it—we all have them….whether it’s the horror story about your recent Northwest flight where your pilot(s) overslept and [...]

Read the full article →