Fri, January 27, 2012

Travel Trends Around the Web

 

Why Train Travel Doesn’t Suck

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

I’d decided on an Amtrak train expedition from Los Angeles to New Mexico well before running across a story titled Low Stress and Last-Minute Travel May Have Boosted Amtrak’s Ridership. But when I read that “[s]everal travelers said they chose the train to lower stress during the holidays….

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Sarah Palin’s Alaska: An Annotated Travel Guide

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

“Progressing”* the great state of Alaska with a guide to some of the Palin family’s favorite haunts.

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Dillingham: Where Palin retreated after bailing on her job. And where she was when she said, in autobiography-in-the-making terms: “Everything…

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Live Blogging @ 37,000 Feet: I ♥ Virgin America

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

Every once in a while, air travel doesn’t suck. You don’t get frisked at security or have your “personal items” scoured in front of a crowd of strangers. You score the bulkhead seat and can stretch your legs out half-an-inch more. You’re feeling downright pampered, right? Well, I’m here to tell…

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