If you read my post of July 11, Save Money with Yapta, you know that I saved $40 off an already booked Jetblue flight by having Yapta track the flight price for me and alert me when the price went down. Well, Yapta just alerted me of another price drop on my flight, and [...]

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For all you diehard Trekkies out there (c’mon, I can’t be the only one), I have more tidbits on the ending of the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. This information comes straight from the mouths (keyboards?) of some of the STTE castmembers who have made it such a memorable experience for [...]

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There’s a very interesting interview in the 7/20/08 Newsweek with the CEO of Amtrak, Alex Kummant, talking about the expansion of rail service in the U.S. as a result of high oil prices. I have long been a proponent of expanding the rail infrastructure in this country and increasing rail service in high-traffic [...]

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There’s a great article at MSNBC today, “The best guided city walks” by Emilie Harting. Harting extolls the virtues of going on guided tours over listening to an iPod tour or reading a guide book to become acquainted with a city. Overall, I agree. Obviously, if your reason for traveling is to [...]

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Vegas comes to Vermont!
The Colchester-Milton Rotary Club is hosting a charity casino night and Texas Hold’em Tournament on Friday, August 15, 2008, from 7-11pm at the Hampton Inn off Exit 16 in Colchester. There is a $100 entry fee for the Texas Hold’em game, with rebuys in the first hour only. The tournament offers [...]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article (”Delta Launches Online Boarding Pass Ads“) featuring a new attempt by Delta Airlines to raise revenues via advertising that will appear on your online boarding passes for your target destination. So, for instance, if you’re flying to Vegas, the ads will be for Vegas restaurants, hotels, and [...]

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The Vegas Internet community is all abuzz tonight with the news that a great discount code (SDM060, “The Ultimate Escape”) that had been shared all over the Internet–on normally trusted sites–was only intended for certain MGM player’s club members, and many, many unhappy travelers have received emails from the MGM Grand telling them, essentially, that [...]

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I first heard about Yapta, an airfare tracking site, a couple of months ago and wanted to test it out myself before I recommended it. Suffice it to say, Yapta has won me over, completely.
I had booked airfare for a trip to Vegas in September through Jetblue at a price that was a bit higher [...]

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I was running errands the other day downtown in Burlington and had a couple of hours to kill while waiting to pick something up from a repair shop. I decided I was in the mood for some strawberry shortcake, so went in search of a restaurant that had it. And searched….and searched…and searched. [...]

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…must come to an end, but do they all have to end at the same damn time???
Word hit the Internet today that the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is closing in September. I figured it would close sometime this year, as news came in April that it had no contract beyond [...]

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