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Archive for November, 2007

The New Southwest Airlines – Good and Bad

Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in Travel industry, Vacation deals | 2 Comments »

I had a few flights on Southwest Airlines last week, so I got to see "the new Southwest" in action after a few (for them) radical changes in the way they do things. Overall, their big push now is to ...

Rental Car Clerk = Insurance Pusher

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in General, Travel industry | 1 Comment »

That's one of the revelations exposed in Alex Frankel's new book Punching In, where he went to work at the bottom in a variety of companies: Starbucks, Apple, The Gap, and...Enterprise Rent-a-Car. He gives a little taste of what he ...

10 Travel Gear Gifts Under $20

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Travel gear | 1 Comment »

A couple of years back I started the Practical Travel Gear Blog as an antidote to what you usually see out there in terms of travel gear reviews. I was tired of just reading about $350 hiking boots, $600 sport ...

Carbon Offsets are a Joke

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference, Travel industry, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 11 Comments »

I have been doing a lot of traveling the past two months and therefore a lot of catching up on stacks of magazines. It seems that everybody and their brother has felt a need to do a "green issue" lately ...

World’s Cheapest Destinations – in Italian!

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Leffel projects, Travel books | No Comments »

That cover photo you see there to your left is the Italian version of my book The World's Cheapest Destinations. It came out to Viaggiare al minimo and that link will take you to the official site of the publisher ...