Alright, I know the Window Seat is probably your favorite travel website (right?), but there are a ton of great ones out there, from those that'll help you score great travel deals to those that figure out that pesky exchange rate for you. Here are a few sites I use frequently when I'm traveling.

Look, I like slipping into a nice warm bed as much as the next person---especially a hotel bed, and especially when I'm vacationing in a cold destination---but one chain has taken it to an entirely new level. At select Holiday Inns in England, guests can request a "human bed warmer" before they turn in for the night.

Say what?

As part of a pioneering new program, Holiday Inn is offering the service--for free, it should be noted---to guests at one of their properties in London and one in Manchester. When you sign up for a human bed warmer (can you imagine having that on your resume, by the way?), you'll receive a visit from a Holiday Inn employee dressed in a head-to-toe "sleep suit" (which, presumably, is super hygienic) who'll slip between your covers for five minutes and warm up the sheets.

It's the long-distance traveler's dream: you have a row of four seats to yourself and you can stretch out across them for the entire 14-hour journey. "Why do people bother paying the extra for business class?" you think. "This is wonderful!"

Ah, but not so fast: when was the last time you saw one empty seat on the plane, let alone a whole row? Recent capacity cuts have meant frequently crowded planes, and if you want to stretch out and lie flat in coach these days, you're pretty much out of luck.

Enter Air New Zealand, and its pioneering Skycouch. A row of three seats in economy that folds back into an almost-flat bed, it sounds almost too good to be true, right?

Earlier this week, the New York Times published their list of The 31 Places to Go in 2010 and I devoured it instantly. It's not that I need any help deciding where to travel---I've got a list as long as my arm---but rather that I love finding out where other people are traveling, and why. That said, the story was packed with inspiration---Damascus, anyone? Gargano? Macedonia?---and that arm-sized list I mentioned is now....well, as long as both of my arms. And maybe a leg too.

What with terrorist plots and emergency landings, you've already got enough to worry about when flying these days. The chances of something happening are slim, obviously, and most of us just shrug it off, get on the plane, and open up a magazine or take a little nap to get through the flight.

But now we've got to be worried about sleeping on airplanes too?

Hands up if you're going to be spending a lot on time on planes--or in airports--over the next month or so. Hmm, not just me then? That's a relief. The great news is Virgin America has partnered with Google to offer free in-flight wifi on all planes through January 15, 2010. Why is this a deal? Well, hooking up to its GoGo Inflight internet system will usually cost you $12.95 for flights of over three hours, $9.95 for flights between 90 minutes and three hours, and $5.95 for flights of less than 90 minutes.

If you're not flying Virgin America, though, fear not: you can still plug in for free at more than 50 airports---thanks again to the generosity of Google. You'll find a full list of participating airports right here: they run the gamut from heavy lifters like Washington Dulles (IAD) and Miami (MIA) to smaller stops like Asheville (AVL) and Kalamazoo (AZO).

There's nothing quite like taking a few months to wander around Europe "finding" yourself---why, it's practically a rite of passage for college kids. So maybe that's why A&O Hostels---a chain of youth hostels with locations in Berlin, Prague, and other top European destinations---is offering free stays to anyone whose parents gave them one of the top baby names of 1989.

Oh yes, it's true. A&0 has chosen eight of the most popular names from 1989---four for boys, four for girls---and is offering free stays to kids with those names during January 2010. Sure, Leipzig in the winter certainly isn't Paris in the springtime, but when you're 21 and backpacking around Europe on pennies a day, free is a pretty good price for a night's accommodation.

Turkey is pretty much a given for Thanksgiving and Christmas is usually a ham, but have you ever wondered what they eat in the rest of the world during this time of the year? Come, take a trip with us. And don't forget to pack your eatin' pants.

My sister recently declined to come and visit me in San Francisco over New Year's despite the fact that I'd found her a round-trip fare from San Diego for the very attractive price of $109.  Did she have plans? Was it not in the budget? Are my parties so lame that no-one wants to come to them anymore?

Nope, none of those reasons. Instead it's this: she's scared of flying.

I'm sure we all know someone who's a nervous flier, so I'm here to pass along the good news: Virgin Atlantic has teamed up with Apple to offer its highly popular Flying Without Fear course---which has a 98% success rate---as an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

I have many celeb sightings to my name, including Meryl Streep (getting into a taxi in New York), Michelle Obama (walking down the street towards me in San Francisco, flanked by Secret Service men who were escorting her into an Italian restaurant), and Dexter Holland from The Offspring (schmoozing it up in the Met Bar in London.) Okay, wait, maybe that last one doesn't really count. Dexter who?