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Archive for January, 2008

Ski for Cheap in Europe

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Cheap Europe Travel, Vacation deals | 2 Comments »

A lot of people who visit the Lonely Planet website go straight to the country profiles or the Thorn Tree message board, but sometimes you can find some good bargain travel advice articles. Take this recent one: Ski Cheap in ...

7 Wierd Things From Marco Polo’s Biography

Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in General, Long-term travel, Travel books | No Comments »

In the latest issue of Perceptive Travel there's a review of the recent Marco Polo biography from Laurence Bergreen. This is an interesting guide to the life of the original world traveler, a Venetian who ended up going to Constantinople, ...

Talkin’ City Discount Cards on the Radio

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Cheap Europe Travel, Family travel, Leffel projects, MSNBC - Tripso columns, Vacation deals | No Comments »

My latest MSNBC column (via Tripso) is Tourist Discount Cards: Deal or No Deal? The folks running Peter Greenberg's radio show liked it so much that I'm going on the air this weekend to chat about good discount cards and ...

On Being an Eco-Friendly Traveler

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Long-term travel, Making a difference, Travel gear, Travel industry | 3 Comments »

I wrote a piece for Transitions Abroad this past December on being an eco-friendly traveler. Along the lines of this rant about carbon credit offsets, my intention was to get across the idea that easy fixes and single actions are ...

5 Things Everyone Asks a Travel Writer

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Family travel, General, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 6 Comments »

"What do you do?" It took me a few years to get to the answer I wanted, but I was pretty darn excited when I could start truthfully answering, "I'm a travel writer." Now that I've been answering that ...