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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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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Finally, another free thing to do in Burlington, VT. From the University of Vermont’s press release:

UVM to Offer Weekly Historic Tour of Campus
Founded in 1791, the University of Vermont is the fifth oldest university in New England, after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown.
Beginning next weekend, the university will bring its long and illustrious history [...]

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Today’s meal of choice at the Chew Chew Festival was lunch. It was a muggy, overcast day. A bank of rainclouds blocked the view of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain, so I knew rain was on the way. I decided not to waste a lot of time dilly-dallying. I got there, [...]

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Nothing kills a vacation faster than getting sick. You’ve waited months, perhaps years, for this trip and sure enough, you arrive at your destination, and all those alien germs you’ve never been exposed to before decide to play pig-pile on you and you catch the flu. Or you pick up the dreaded airplane [...]

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Christopher Elliott’s travel column today discusses Four secrets for finding the right travel pro. It’s a good topic to raise, especially for solos who have never traveled alone before. Do you have a travel agent book your trip for you, or do you do it yourself online? For the most part, I [...]

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