This Week in Travel – Episode 131

This week’s guest is Mary Jo Manzaranes from TBEX. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts This Week’s News: O’Hare to Offer Tiny Rooms by the Hour for Sleeping, Not Sex “Friends” Throw Guy Overboard Right Next to a Shark, Because That’s Funny ‘Princess Bride’-loving flier hassled over Inigo Montoya T-shirt – Travel Kit on NBCNews.com Unruly passenger …

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Help Eliminate Pretentious Travel Douchebag Syndrome

You have probably met them. They get back from a semester of study abroad or their 2-week vacation in Europe and all they can talk about is where they’ve just been. Talking about it isn’t so bad, but they somehow manage to drop the fact that they’ve just been abroad into every single conversation. ..and …

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The National Park Pass : Is it Worth It?

The only way we can travel as often as we do is to be very frugal in our travels.  We shop for the best deals, travel in the offseason and try to stretch our travel dollars through pre-planning and careful spending. I recently tweeted that I was sitting down to do the math on whether …

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Gutsy Women – A Traveler’s Life Lessons

No matter how long I travel or how many places I visit, there are certain questions that I will never be able to answer. One of them is what you need to know to travel as a women. I’ve talked to many female travelers over the last several years and without question they have to …

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The 12 Most Difficult To Visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites

The 12 Most Difficult To Visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites

As you have probably noticed, I have a fetish for visiting UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Having visited 400 of them, I often am asked if I plan on visiting all of them. The answer is “no” and I’m not even sure it is possible. As of 2020, there are 1,120 UNESCO World Heritage sites and …

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Ghosts of My Grandfather : Visiting Clinton Sherman Air Force Base

My Grandfather was a wonderful man. I grew up close to he and my Grandmother, often spending time with them as I grew up. After I became an adult, he loved that I traveled. When I came to visit, he’d pull out his atlas and we’d talk about where I was going or where I’d …

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12 Inspiriting Photos of The Art of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

As amazing as the landscape and wildlife of Haida Gwaii are, the artwork created by the talented Haida artists is just as impressive. For decades the Haida art was suppressed by the Canadian government. In the 1960’s however, the government loosened controls on Haida culture and the result of the Haida Renaissance. Artists such as …

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The Food Travelers Handbook

I am not a foodie. I wish I was a foodie in the same way that I wish I could play piano or speak Italian, but I am not. I believe I could exist quite happily like Robocop on nothing more than a rudimentary baby food like paste to keep my organic systems functioning, provided …

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2013 Travel Plans

Before I begin, I should make it abundantly clear that my travel plans are always in flux. Sometimes opportunities come up at a moment’s notice. My travels for the 2nd half of 2012 ended up being totally different from what I expected they would be in June. That being said, my travel plans for at …

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