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Archive for April, 2007

Obscure Travel Book – The Yage Letters

Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, Travel books | No Comments »

Darrin Duford, an author who wrote a Venezuelan wine story for Perceptive Travel a while back, once recommended to me an obscure book called The Yage Letters. It's an odd series of correspondence between William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. ...

Extreme Makeover Attempt for Pattaya

Thursday, April 19th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Destination reports, General, Travel industry | No Comments »

Girls Originally uploaded by guszcity. An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal says the Thai city of Pattaya is trying to clean up its image and promote the city to a wider range of tourists. Yeah, good luck with that. They hired an ...

Don’t Pay List Price!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 Posted in General, Travel bargains, Travel gear | 1 Comment »

If you've got your eye on a new travel gear item or are about to say, rent a car, take a few minutes first to look for deals and coupons that are out there. It is very easy to comparison shop ...

Masochists Get Their Dream Flight

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 Posted in Travel bargains, Vacation deals | No Comments »

Last week RyanAir announced they would begin flying across the Atlantic Ocean, with flights starting at just $12. Since this is about what you would pay for a bare-bones Chinatown bus from New York to Boston, "you get what you ...

Tourism Bureau Marketing Budgets

Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in General, Travel industry | No Comments »

Have you always wanted to go to Hawaii? Somebody's betting $69.2 million a year that they can turn that nagging feeling into action. The other day I picked up one of those supplemental travel magazines put out by a ...