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How Many Cabins Are There in Hell?

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in General, Travel funnies, Travel industry | 2 Comments »

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="(c) Oasis of the Seas"][/caption] Here'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. ...

Mumbai’s Taxi Problem

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Destination reports, Travel funnies | No Comments »

One of my many vivid negative memories of India is arriving in Bombay after a 36-hour train ride that was supposed to be 24 hours, only to get in a huge blow-up argument with a taxi driver who tried to ...

Cities That Travelers Hate

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Destination reports, General, International living/working, Travel funnies | 4 Comments »

Lonely Planet has a piece on 9 cities travelers hate, based on feedback from readers. I won'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 ...

Signs in Belize

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Destination reports, General, Travel funnies | No Comments »

I've been a little hard on Belize in past posts, but I will admit it was refreshing to get there and be able to speak and read English again after nearly seven weeks of trying to make myself understood in ...

Traveling Dads and Bad Travel Stories

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Family travel, Leffel projects, Perceptive Travel, Travel funnies, Travel gear | No Comments »

I'm back home after two months on the road, going through a virtual mountain of snail mail (when will I read a stack of 22 magazines?) So meanwhile here are a few links to things with my name on them. There's ...