Category: Blog Articles
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Top 6 New Year's Eve Celebrations – Minus NYC
You might think that New York City is the epicenter of New Year’s Eve celebrations, and you would be right. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the world is eating chopped liver in a Buddhist monastery, because we can predict with one hundred percent accuracy that epic end of the year parties will be…
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Ringing in the New Year New York City Style
Sure, you can celebrate the entrance of the year 2011 onto the world’s stage in Walla Walla or Peru but everybody everywhere knows that it’s best seen and heard live from Times Square in New York City. You’ve got the ball drop, Dick Clark (we hope), and 999,999 of your closest friends to celebrate with.…
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4 Ways the Airline Can Ruin Your Holiday Travel
While crashing the airplane you’re on might be the ultimate buzzkill, there are other, less spectacular, ways the airline can mess up your holiday travel. Canceled flights, lost reservations, oppressive baggage regulations – the list goes on – but here are a few ways to prepare yourself for the fray. 1. E-mails, texts, and automated…
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San Alfonso Del Mar – If Swimming Pools Were Orgasms, This Would Be Multiples
We’re not sure if a visit to San Alfonso Del Mar in Chile would be categorized as adventure travel or just another stop for the enterprising jetsetter. Acknowledged by the Guiness Book of World Records as the current record holder of the largest swimming pool in the world (nothing else even comes close), you have…
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Adventure Travel – Turkmenistan's Door to Hell
Do your family and friends occasionally tell you to “Go to Hell!” and mean it? Now you can now oblige by making your reservations for a quick jaunt to the Middle Eastern nation of Turkmenistan, where some locals will tell you the Door to Hell is located. If adventure travel had a name, this trip…
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Inflight Internet, iPads, and Wi-Fi for the Firsties
Long ago airlines realized that a great way to keep passengers happy and mostly trouble-free was to ply them with alcohol. It’s only on the rare occasion that a rowdy one emerges who has to be trussed up, tied down, or tossed overboard. But in the industry’s continued quest to keep passengers under control, more…
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Avoid the Balinese "Tour Guide"
Even though we use the Balinese example in the title, the “tour guide†concept is one that unwary travelers run into around the world. Could be Cairo, Calcutta, Sydney, or Tokyo. Anywhere there is a tourist to be found, expect to find an enterprising local ready to separate him from as much of his dinero…
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How to Open an Offshore Bank Account
Don’t kid yourself into thinking you have anything remotely approaching an “anonymous†transaction within American borders. If Joe Citizen realized how easily they could lose everything to legal forfeiture laws, they’d be on the phone to Switzerland as fast as they could pick up the phone. Private property and financial assets can be taken on…
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Luxury Hotels for Less Than $200 Nightly
If you’re shocked that a luxury hotel might go for as much as $200 per night, nice to meet you, our name is reality and we’re here to let you in on a secret. There are plenty of places to bed down around this big blue marble that charge well over one thousand dollars for…
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Airports Can Opt Out Of TSA Screening
At the risk of beating an already dead horse into a bloody pulp, did you know that airports are not required by the Patriot Act, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), or George Washington’s mother-in-law to allow TSA employees to man those infernal full body scan devices that are causing such a ruckus? It’s true and…