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I said to a friend that this trip to Israel might just make me update this. I’ve been meaning to all week. Israel is *fabulous* and I already have a next-time to-do list *Temple Mount – Lonely Planet says it’s possible, in practice it didn’t seem so and I didn’t have sufficient time to explore. [...]

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Well after yesterday’s loss, it’s well and truly the off season. The Giants playing well had helped ease the pain following the first Yankee team not to make playoffs since 1993. I still can’t switch gears to baseball yet, it’s too damn cold. Anyway, my thoughts on the Giants season are here: Part 1 |   [...]

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World Hum has a great post on the Travel Books We Loved in 2007. Surprisingly, I haven’t read any of them. Haven’t even heard of more than a few. [Just what I need, a longer wishlist ]. I think the ones I’m most interested in reading are: Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes [...]

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Las Vegas…nothing like I really expected it to be. When I first booked the trip I had no real expectations. I just wanted to go somewhere I hadn’t been and a domestic trip was more reasonable given the time constraints of a long weekend. So Vegas it was with the added benefit that Tam could [...]

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I *know* I’ve added “backpacking” as a category more than once now, yet it never shows in my category list. It’s under “Travel and Tourism” but for some reason, sub headers don’t show here. Weird. Anyway… The other day, GoBudgetTravel asked “Is the Backpack Even Necessary“, which followed a post from this summer ” What [...]

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There’s a guest post on Budget Globetrotting about the “5 Common Regrets of First Time Travelers” by the author of the blog Go Budget Travel and it really made me think… His list of regrets is: 1.Traveling too quickly 2. Trying to do too much 3. Spending too much time in internet cafés and hanging [...]

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Thursday 24 May: Newark to London:Heathrow Friday 25 May: Heathrow to Prague Saturday 23 June: Prague to Switzerland. Train/plane plans not completely set but I think I’m going via train for the scenery. Monday 25 June: Geneva to New York The interim month is, of course, summer study abroad. Four weeks, two classes. We’ll be [...]

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There is plenty of discussion about saving for travels (5 Steps to Save Money Like Buddha is one of the more interesting ones). Not just in terms of saving money for a trip, but other savings so that you’ll have more money available to spend while traveling. I’m all about saving money in anticipation of [...]

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First encounter with a place, as with love, is one you never forget. As I’ve alluded to in the past, for me, it’s Spain. Even today, almost five years since my first return trip to Spain in October 2002, I can’t forget the feeling of seeing the same statues at Atocha and the same vendors [...]

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Sightseeing can’t compete with miracle of everyday lives, it really can’t. That’s some of what I tried to get across in my previous post on the topic of tourism v. travel.  The Lost Globe cautions against the anti-tourist He misses the worlds best attractions because there are to many tourists there and the location has lost [...]

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