Boldly Go Solo

An article on travel deals on Sunday offered a list of 12 ways to find travel bargains. I didn't think they were anything to write home about. Suggestions included checking cruise discounters, consulting a travel agent and checking individual airline sites. This is news?

But I liked suggestion number 9. "Work backward."

"Instead of trying to find sale fares to your destination of choice,
consider places not on your radar screen that pop up on airline sales.
Sites such as airfarewatchdog.com and kayak.com/buzz allow you to plug
in an originating city, and then a list of current deals is displayed."

It's not expressed as well as it could be. If you have a "destination of choice," you probably don't want to be waylaid. But if you have some days off and don't exactly know what you want to do with yourself, it could be fun to poke around on a Web site and see what cheap fares come up.