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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; Travel industry</title>
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		<title>Smart Packing for the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/11/20/smart-packing-for-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about to be that time of year again, when planes are jammed, tempers are flaring, and we&#8217;re supposed to deliver gifts while full of cheer.
Of course it&#8217;s hard to be cheerful when you&#8217;re paying $25 to $75 to check bags after already paying inflated holiday airfares. So check out this article I got quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Travel Info From Elsewhere</title>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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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>Another Southwest Airlines Sweep</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/28/another-southwest-airlines-sweep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap North America Travel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travel.booklocker.com/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SmarterTravel.com just released the results of their reader survey in which respondents pick the best and worst airlines in a variety of categories. They might as well call it the &#8220;Southwest vs. USAirways Survey&#8221; since the former did a smackdown on everyone else and the latter gets the doormat prizes.
This chart is so consistent it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airline Fees in Europe</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/21/airline-fees-in-europe/</link>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination reports]]></category>
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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>4 Annoying Things and 2 Good Ones</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/03/4-annoying-things-and-2-good-ones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) I have years of personal family photos stored on Kodak Gallery (once Ofoto), but add up the megabytes and they wouldn&#8217;t fill a $4.99 memory stick from Big Lots. So why is the company sending me an extortion e-mail saying &#8220;Spend $19.99 with us by the end of the month or we&#8217;ll delete all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Persistence</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/12/the-power-of-persistence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Latin America Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel bargains]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After five attempts on different days, I finally found cheap flights for three across Mexico. The solution involves a bus ride and a taxi, but we save $100 each in the end and get a direct flight, so worth it.
After juggling dates and moving around arrangements, I cashed in miles for two flights to Ecuador [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Sneaky Extra Travel Fees</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/28/avoiding-sneaky-extra-travel-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/28/avoiding-sneaky-extra-travel-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 12:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m setting off today on a four-day trip and this will be my 14th flight without paying an extra baggage charge since the legacy U.S. airlines started implementing them. I&#8217;ve gotten out of some because there&#8217;s a loophole on international flights or I get out of Continental&#8217;s because I have one of their credit cards. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Companies Keep Stealing From Travelers</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/19/credit-card-companies-keep-stealing-from-travelers/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/19/credit-card-companies-keep-stealing-from-travelers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed if you have used a credit card in a foreign country in the past few years, the company issuing that credit card has put its hand deeper and deeper into your pocket. Most will charge you 3% on the transaction, even if you&#8217;re in Ecuador or Panama (where the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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