My wife just returned from a trip to Southern California, flying on Southwest Airlines. Before she left home, she “graduated” from Southwest’s “Boarding School” after learning how passengers check-in for and board the airline’s flights. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 Dick Jordan
Saturday night I attended the “Ooh, La La, Lucie!” birthday party for a French-Canadian friend, formerly of Montreal, who flew back to California from Paris last Wednesday after spending three weeks in France. Lucie, of course, speaks French fluently. And English. And Italian. But you say to me: “What about you, mon petit cheri? How [...]
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Travel Essays
The Chinese Year of the Dragon kicked off on January 23rd, 2012. Here’s how began in Beijing: Can’t make it to Mainland China? Not a problem. In this MSNBC.com story, travel writer Harriet Baskas covers the fifteen-day Chinese New Year celebrations in these U.S. cities: Las Vegas New York San Francisco Seattle Washington, D.C. [...]
Not a Play on Words No, theatrical historians have not just uncovered a heretofore unpublished Shakespeare play where instead of “Romeo,” the title character’s name is “Barbie,” and she and Juliet become united in death because their parents and the authorities do not approve of same-sex marriage. Ban“The Bomb,” Not “The Doll” But what the [...]
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Priceline.com, which gained fame in the world of travel by letting you “Name Your Own Price” and bid on travel services, has sent William Shatner “over the edge” in this new video promoting it’s alternative “no-need-to-bid” conventional booking method. My only question: Will we now see Shatner as “The Negotiator” only in re-runs, just as [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC0w84F9A14&context=C3e079ffADOEgsToPDskKh8yfwFYD91N2_DCmgUvpC”
Next Tuesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will announce the nominees for the 2012 Oscars. I hate to say it, but you know those videos you shot during your travels in 2011? Well, they haven’t got a prayer of landing you one of these nifty little golden statuettes to place on the [...]
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