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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; General</title>
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		<title>Good Travel Info From Elsewhere</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/11/11/good-travel-info-from-elsewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m busy getting the 3rd annual Remarkable Photo Contest ready to launch this weekend on Perceptive Travel, so here&#8217;s some useful travel info from elsewhere to make this a week of being wiser.
8 things you should know about Gore-tex (that I didn&#8217;t until two weeks ago).
The fine print on credit cards keeps getting worse and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be a Victim of Others&#8217; Wrong Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much are you influenced by what other people think&#8212;even if they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about?
Witness these examples from Seth Godin&#8217;s blog:
Texting while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk. It doesn&#8217;t feel that way, of course, but will you respect the data and stop, cold turkey?
The data shows that the vast majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Cabins Are There in Hell?</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/11/06/how-many-cabins-are-there-in-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one seagoing vessel you will never find me upon: the 6,300-passenger Oasis of the Seas that is now in the ocean somewhere on the way to its home base in Florida. I think you can see it coming if you&#8217;re standing on a hill in Alabama.
According to the Associated Press, this monstrosity has 2,700 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Books for Round-the-World Travel</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/30/the-best-books-for-round-the-world-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/30/the-best-books-for-round-the-world-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get asked for book recommendations a lot from people planning their first trip around the world or going on an extended trip. Thankfully half of the e-mails have &#8220;(besides yours)&#8221; in the request. Yes, of course I think The World&#8217;s Cheapest Destinations should be the one you look to when deciding where you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cities That Travelers Hate</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/25/cities-that-travelers-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lonely Planet has a piece on 9 cities travelers hate, based on feedback from readers.
I won&#8217;t steal their thunder by posting them all here, but I agree with some more than others. I lived in a suburb of Seoul for a year and while I&#8217;ll agree that there&#8217;s not much soul in Seoul, it does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airline Fees in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Europe Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SmarterTravel has published a series of great tables to help passengers figure out how much they&#8217;ll get reamed by various airlines in extra fees and frequent flyer fees to redeem &#8220;free&#8221; tickets. Now they&#8217;ve got a guide to airline fees in Europe. While we gripe and moan about all the fees we get socked with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succumbing to a Group Tour (for a Good Reason)</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/14/succumbing-to-a-group-tour-galapagos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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Long-term budget travelers are, by nature, and independent lot. You wouldn&#8217;t be out there backpacking around in the first place if you were trying to fit in and conform to the norm. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do group tours&#8221; is a common stance, spoken or unspoken.
I was just forced to be on a group tour for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons to use Skype When You Travel</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/06/5-reasons-to-use-skype-when-you-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/06/5-reasons-to-use-skype-when-you-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you travel around the world with your cell phone, crackberry, or iPhone, you could end up spending a fortune to communicate. I&#8217;ve heard so many sad tales of $1,000+ surprise bills that I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s a huge profit center for the mobile phone companies, especially the one with the iPhone monopoly here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Travel Assumptions Die Hard</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/04/old-travel-assumptions-die-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/04/old-travel-assumptions-die-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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Once a place becomes a pariah destination, it&#8217;s pretty hard to dig out of that hole. Blame it on sensationalist cable TV or our brain&#8217;s constant search for patterns and shortcuts, but once war-torn regions stay that way in people&#8217;s minds even after a decade of peace.
There&#8217;s a great piece on this subject on MSNBC.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargains in the Cheapest Destinations</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/24/bargains-in-the-cheapest-destinations/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/24/bargains-in-the-cheapest-destinations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know it all and couldn&#8217;t keep up with everything new everywhere even if I did. So here are some recent worthwhile posts from some of the cheapest places to travel.
This week the Carnival of Cities was at the Happy Hotelier blog and I found this gem from the Twenty-something Travel Blog: How to [...]]]></description>
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