America’s Image Abroad – Are We All Canadians?
I’m not a huge proponent of national pride. That’s not to say I don’t love my country, but I feel, in the chaotic scheme of life, humans were dumped onto different landmasses and that was that....
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Flight Attendants Get No Respect. Can They Do Their Jobs?
Wanted: Someone to push heavy carts along a narrow aisle dispensing Coke (the drink), cookies and conversation, with a smile.Applicant must be able to evacuate a plane, determine, behind closed...
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BedBugs Bite, Hotel Reputations Fall: Terminix Rates Your City
The bedbugs keep biting, and the reputations and pocketbooks of hotels and inns are getting infected.A couple of months ago we did a “trending spotting†piece on bedbugs, and the...
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Men And Women Travel Differently. Here’s How
Men and women are different. Who dares argue the point? So it’s no surprise that we now know they travel differently, seeking different travel experiences.Men and...
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Selling the “Polygamy Tour” in Arizona
Twitter Follow And why would we be surprised? We have Medical Tours where travelers combine a few days in a luxury hotel and first class beaches in Thailand,...
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Travel Through The Theatre of the Mind
Twitter FollowListen to a poor Elvis Presley talk about his daddy’s arrest and imprisonment for forging an eight dollar check to feed his hungry...
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In Portugal Port Wine is King
If Vasco do Gama, Magellan and Henry the Navigator fortified themselves with Port, Portugal’s most famous product, it might have made their journeys less horrific.But Port wasn’t created...
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Nantucket on My Mind
Years after Nantucket’s whaling industry virtually decimated the Atlantic whale population and became fabulously wealthy in the process, Ahab and the White Whale are gone, but the wealth and charm...
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