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So You Want To Be A Travel Writer . . .

I was sitting in my regular bedroom at my computer in my quaint, charming, rustic hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with my dog, Wilson, at my feet when I came across David Farley’s article on how to avoid writing bad travel articles. Some of his more useful tips include not [...]

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Top 3 Airline Websites (And The 3 Worst)

I was reading this post over at Budget Travel about a guy, so fed up with the American Airlines website, decided to redesign the front page to show the big boys how it’s done, at least in the mind of a 22-year-old web designer. Here’s the result. This got me [...]

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How To Go On An Endless Vacation

This article from MSNBC popped up a little time ago and lists nine tips on how you can go ahead and live that endless vacation, just like you’ve always dreamed. Wow, that kind of sounded a little infomercially didn’t it? The piece is a little more basic than hawking real [...]

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Your Guide To Tipping Around The World (or) How Not To Be Hated By Waitstaff While Traveling

Fodor’s listed their 5 easy tips for tipping around the world, with the key being #1: When in doubt, tip 15% (food, taxi, tuk-tuk ride). Sure, in most places that may be exceedingly generous (and in some places, towards the lower end), but it’s a safe bet and it will [...]

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How Not To Get Sick While Traveling (This Story Has Nothing To Do With Swine Flu)

It’s been a full week and TheExpeditioner.com’s been utterly and completely swine flu story free. You’re welcome. But in a related story, one I can relate to personally after having succumbed to a terrible head cold/flu/swine-like illness myself at the end of my stay in Ireland, here’s a story at [...]

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I Want To See 1.5 Million Wildebeest And Zebra This Summer, Where Should I Go?

On Safari in Tanzania means nights spent listening to lions and leopards growling as you go to bed, watching the annual 700-mile pilgrimage of 1.5 million wildebeest and zebra through the southern part of the country, and perhaps the rare occasion when you find yourself stuck in your vehicle during [...]

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Top 10 Things You Need For Traveling

Here’s a list over at havepack.com of the top 10 things you need to bring with you while traveling. A few are no-brainers (#3/4 - guidebooks, #5 - camera, #1 - backpack), but there’s one that I absolutely, completely need and remind myself to buy but still haven’t done so: [...]

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Dear Rolf: Where Should I Travel If I Want To Have Fun But Have No Money?

Fresh off his recent twitter controversy, Rolf’s answering tips as to where the best places are to travel around the world with little to no money. Actually, he’s letting Tim Leffel, author of “The World’s Cheapest Destinations” give his opinion. For a full explanation and things to do, click through [...]

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How Not To Get Sick On A Plane (And Other Flying Health Tips)

NYT travel health expert opened up his mailbag this week to answer readers’ questions ranging from how to avoid getting a cold on a plane to whether cosmic radiation will turn your unborn fetus into a member of the X-Men. Here we go: 1) Does saline spray ward off respiratory [...]

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Rolf And The Twitter-While-You-Travel Controversy . . . or . . . Dear Rolf: How Can I Piss Off The Majority Of The Traveling Public?

A good old-fashioned travel controversy seems to have emerged while I was away. Given that these are far and few between, I’ll try to stoke the flames a bit and try to blow it out of proportion in true online media fashion. It seems that travel writer/columnist Rolf Potts slammed [...]

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