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A comment from Erica on my Travel: About page got me thinking again… I tried to answer it in a commen, but then I realised there was so much more to it than that. It’s so hard to choose a favorite because places stick to you for so many different reasons. Somehow, I’ve managed to [...]

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it’s not that I don’t agree with Christopher Elliot’s post on the topic, but rather it’s sad that we accept these… Inconvenient “convenience” fees – I think this one bothers me the most. That said, I experienced the fees far more in Japan and Australaia than I did here, so it’s yet another case of [...]

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from USA Today. I missed this one when it was first published and it came up today when I was looking up something for work. My personal favorite: A fracas involving 20 passengers erupted in June on a flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to London. It was touched off when a passenger took exception to the [...]

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Current Travel Warnings….are they useful? Sure, the information about Kenya is valid: The Department continues to recommend that private American citizens in Kenya evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing terrorist threats and increasing incidents of violent crime. But is anyone travelling today, especially travelling on such a long flight, not paying attention [...]

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…just a few days late! But I have an excuse, I was on the road. There is a lot of talk for 2008 travel-related resolutions. Mine is simple. Quit going back to the same places! Easier than it sounds, but I’m going to try. No set travel plans yet for 2008 because I have no [...]

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aka my favorite kind of travel. While I love travelling for short periods with friends/family and enjoyed meeting up with people at different segments of the long Australia trip, I wouldn’t trade the solo travel periods for anything. I got to wake up in the morning and do exactly as I wanted. I could change [...]

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Once again, Peter Moore’s blog is the source of the Ozbus update. The main Guardian article has disappeared for some reason, but the message and response from Moore in the blog remain. While I agree with Moore in that the unexpected is very much a major part of independent travel – and related very much [...]

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The View from your Window was Brought to you by… definitely not this site. I think it’s crazy! Visual pollution, above all. I love the views from the plane. I doubt I’ll ever forget the photo I took flying back from Spain in 1996 of the clouds and their shadows over Portugal, the Australian coastline [...]

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Was reading Peter Moore’s blog and he mentioned Ozbus. Not cheap, but WOW! I’ve read a lot of books about the overland trip, including Moore’s own The Wrong Way Home, Farewell Hippie Heaven and For Love and a Beetle and I’ve loved them all. The overland trip is something I’d love to do one day [...]

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So I’m not totally crazy in that I wouldn’t love to live within spitting distance of work and school, however commuting by bus/train has its benefits. Namely I have my reading time back, something rarely seen last year. Today I read 106 pages between the morning and the evening commutes and loved it. Much like [...]

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