Super Useful Travel Links 9.28.12

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Happy Friday! I hope you all have fun plans for the weekend or have a great vacation coming up to look forward to. In this week’s edition of Super Useful Travel Posts, I’ve found some interesting posts for you. From riding the rails to a very sleepy plane traveler, I tried to find something useful and interesting for everyone. As always, I hope you enjoy and also share anything, interesting, useful or fun that you found related to travel (in some way) in the comments.

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Ever heard of a travel trust fund? No? Well, then maybe you’d like to learn about them. The new thingin wills is giving the gift of travel when you pass on. If you’d like to ensureyour children or other beneficiaries get to follow their dreams of travelingthe globe, then this is the perfect way to do it.

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Our favorite budget travelspokesperson is back! That’s right, William Shatner has returned as the Priceline Negotiator. Due to popular demand from fans, Priceline decided to rehireShatner after 7 months and bringing him back from the (supposed) dead. Admitit. You missed him. And if you haven’t seen his comeback commercial, you canview it on this link.

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If you’ve been thinking aboutgoing to Europe and debating how to get around between countries, then thispost that gives you 7 tips for touring Europe by train may give you some help in how to do it anddo it better than you expected.

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While I don’t think this wouldever happen again, make sure if you’re truly tired that you set your alarm towake you up…or maybe avoid taking any kind of sleeping pill. I have no idea howthis woman slept for a straight 18 hours, but I bet she’s really relaxed now.After completing a roundtrip flight from Pakistan to Paris and never gettingoff, the airline has some explaining to do when it comes to why nobody noticedthis sleeping woman on the plane when she was the only one still on it.

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United has been getting a lotof grief lately, and they didn’t even “accidentally” miss a sleeping lady ontheir plane. On top of all the incoming complaints for various other things,the airline seems to have misplaced a child traveling alone. This does tend to happen every now and again, butthis is just more bad news heaped onto this not-so-loved airline that simplydidn’t seem to care that they didn’t know where someone’s 10 year old daughterwas. The worst part? The family had to find out from their daughter’s camp thatshe never showed up. I feel like this story has two morals: 1.) Don’t flyUnited. 2.) Don’t let your children fly alone if they don’t have to. It’s worththe extra money to know they are safe.

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Travelers are getting fed upwith more airlines than just United though. They are finding more and morehassles associated with flying and are looking for alternative transportation. The winner in all this is Amtrak. With similarly priced or cheaper tickets, on-timetrains, faster security, new electronic ticketing and readily available WiFi,passengers just find it more travel-friendly all around.
Often I’ve gone to a foreigncountry only to come back and realize I have a bunch of random coins or “dollars”in my pocket or the bottom of my purse. If this has happened to you and thenyou don’t know what to do with it, since exchanging it for your home currencyis going to gain you practically zero, many airlines are now participating in aUNICEF program called Change For Good that takes your spare change and uses it towardsuseful projects around the world like tsunami and earthquake repair. 
What are your thoughts on this week's travel postings?