this is great and a good idea!
maybe it's time for me to save bitcoins as well for travel.
i know a group buying site that offers travel packages that you can pay using bitcoin
You can also just go to Expedia if you want to book a trip or hotel etc...
Went through his blog quickly and the one thing that seems to come up is the 'ignorance' factor or rather the fact that so few merchants know about bitcoin.
We often see headlines about payment processors now accepting bitcoin which mean that thousands of merchants can now accept bitcoin. I actually wonder how many of those merchants are told in detail what it really means. The payment processors most probably just fire off a couple of mails to the vendors/merchants telling them that they can now accept bitcoin and that's that.
Anybody who ever ran a business will know that you do not always have time to go through all those emails you get from your payment processors and the like, so I believe that thousands of merchants might be able to accept bitcoin but don't have the faintest idea how to go about it and most probably don't even offer it as an option to clients.
That means we, the bitcoin community, should drive this adoption by asking to pay in bitcoin wherever we go just like this guy is doing. This will drive adoption.