Tag: travel
group name: travelbums
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September 14, 2006 01:24 PM EDT --
I just read an article on USA Today online about the Registered Traveler program, and how people may have to pay up to $200 a year for this service. This is a program where you pay money to . . . more
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January 07, 2007 04:56 PM EST --
Im sure this may have been psoted before, but I just thought Id ask.
I love Nicaragua. I actually wrote about that trip for my travel writing sample. The people are so much nicer there . . . more
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September 07, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
The last hurdle has been hurdled. Our passsports now have valid visas for the Islamic Republic of Iran in them. All I need to do now is buy the airline tickets, pack and wait. I am actually going to see . . . more
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May 14, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
It's almost summer time, which means that many of you are starting to plan a vacation with your family, friends, or a loved one. Where are you planning to go? Have you considered going on a cruise? . . . more
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April 26, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
It's been eons since cannibalism was practiced in Gascony, France. Still, John Edwards feels apprehensive as he settles in for one local feast and finds it filled with Gascon hunters brandishing their . . . more
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February 05, 2007 05:25 AM EST --
We travel a bunch because of my husband's business. Most of our travel is very long trips. Copenhagen to Miami, Copenhagen to Melbourne, Australia... like that. Not usually short little commuter hops, . . . more
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September 01, 2006 06:50 PM EDT --
So, I'm going to share some ideas of what to do in cities, especially Paris, where we go every year.
First up: A left bank walk (more to come):
Shakespeare & Co.
At 37 rue dela bucherie, . . . more
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March 07, 2008 07:58 AM EST --
Our friend (Riyadh) and his other half (Rupa) recently flew down to Auckland from Sydney giving hubby and me an opportunity to show them around. Riyadh . . . more
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . . more
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May 09, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
A recently overheard conversation:
Traveler 1: I've got to go to Seattle this summer. What do you know about the place?
Traveler 2: Not much, just bring your umbrella.
Bring your umbrella? In the . . . more
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September 07, 2006 08:56 PM EDT --
I find myself with a dilemma, albeit a fortunate one. I am traveling to Iran to further research on a book and to accrue more personal experience with the people of the old Inner Asian trade routes. That . . . more
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January 17, 2008 12:56 AM EST --
This season, hundreds of Costa Ricans and tourists from around the world will be visiting the province of Limón, on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast, attracted by both its wonderful beaches surrounded . . . more
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April 30, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
Having coffee this morning at a hotel in Tuscany, I was greeted by a familiar sight: It was an article about Ernest Hemingway. Specifically, it was a sidebar in this month’s National Geographic about . . . more
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January 04, 2008 05:02 PM EST --
As some of you know I have family out in NY and we always go out there to visit them. In past years we had gone the plane route since it afforded us more time at our destination, however, recent years . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:41 PM EDT --
The benefits of promoting gather.com:
Some of you may remember my article:
"How to Promote Gather Outside of Gather"
and the offer I received for my efforts. /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976745195 . . . more
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July 03, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
As I was watching the streak on the sky growing and diminishing, I felt that little heart of mine wishing that it was me up there at the end of the streak. Have you never seen the white streak from the . . . more
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May 30, 2007 11:45 AM EDT --
Fortunately my friend had the foresight to bring a screwdriver that night, otherwise we might have left Municipal Stadium empty handed.
They were tearing the place down in 1996, and I lived just . . . more
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August 09, 2007 04:43 AM EDT --
I guess I hit a little too close to home for someone. I got a verbal scolding in one comment section for being "unprofessional" and then have watched all the articles I publish from my . . . more
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October 24, 2006 04:49 AM EDT --
In 1066 a chap name o' William decided he rather liked the area and went about laying claim in a very bloody fashion. He put up castles at what seemed like strategic points around England. The first . . . more
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January 14, 2007 03:46 AM EST --
It had long been my wish to visit Stonehenge in England. For some reason I have just felt drawn to it since I was a small child and saw a picture of it in some magazine or other. I finally get to make . . . more
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