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Travel Trivia: Quirky Animal Events Quiz

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It is time to see how bright a traveler you are:  Can you  correctly identify the locale of ten animal-related events?  Using anything but your noggin is impermissible, so forget about using search engines, encyclopedias, guidebooks, or texting, phoning, or e-mailing friends or other “sources”, including Twitter or Facebook, either. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Dick Jordan

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When Flying Makes You Want to Boogie

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Let’s face it:  For we passengers, travel by air is often a stressful and unpleasant experience.  And cabin crew members who have to put up with bad behavior from unruly customers, work hard, and get paid less than they did in the past, must hate it when the alarm clock goes off and they have [...]

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“Flying” Pan Am at SFO

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A week ago, I used a YouTube video to give you a taste of what it was like to fly on a Pan Am 707 from New York to Paris in 1958. On Sunday evenings, ABC TV will let you take a virtual trip to Europe in the friendlier-than-today skies of 1963 from the comfort [...]

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Is This A Rental Car of the Future?

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What’s Going On in The Cockpit on Your Flight?

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Learn About European Travel from Rick Steves

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European travel expert, Rick Steves, will be hosting his fall Travel Festival on Saturday, November 19, in Edmonds, Washington, about a half-hour drive north of Seattle. This all-day European travel extravaganza features 10 free classes taught by Rick and his top travel teachers. Rick will be teaching two of his all-time favorites: European Travel Skills [...]

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Berlin Like You’ve Never Seen It

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I’ve been to Berlin, but never seen it look like this.  Here’s what electronic manufacturer LG says about this video display: “LG marked the opening of IFA 2010 in style by unveiling a giant 3D media façade in Kulturbaruerei, the cultural heart of Berlin, to highlight the upcoming range of devices under the LG Optimus [...]

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Nose Dive at The Pump

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This Weekend: Me, On The Radio With Rick Steves

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European travel guru, Rick Steves, is well known to PBS viewers because of his “Rick Steves’ Europe” travelogues. But Rick also has his own radio program, Travel With Rick Steves, and interviews ordinary travelers, giving them a chance to become “radio personalities” (or at least get a few minutes of “fame”). Dick And Rick (Steves) [...]

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Travel Photo Thursday: A Career Launching Moment

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When shooting trip photos the truth is:  You can’t change the weather, you take what it gives you, and you probably won’t be able to come back to that spot when it’s improved. That was the situation when I was on a high-speed catamaran tour boat, speeding up Glacier Bay in June of 2008.  It [...]

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Paying For The News Upfront Pays Off!

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Four weeks ago, I wrote about Spot.us, an organization that supports community-funded reporting.  But instead of raising money through the “pledge drive” mode employed by public TV and radio stations, Spot.us gets readers, listeners and viewers to directly help financially underwrite specific news stories.  I was so impressed with the Spot.us approach to program funding [...]

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9/11 Remembered: Movies, TV & Radio

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The terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001 have been dramatized or documented in many films and TV programs over the last decade.  Many will no doubt be replayed, along with new programming memorializing the events of that day, on broadcast and cable television networks during the next week or so.  (The San Francisco Chronicle has [...]

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New! Found in My Own Backyard

Found in My Own Backyard

During the last 40 years I have traveled to nearly 250 places in the United States and abroad.  Like travel writer Tim Cahill, I often have “road fever” which takes me far from home, over hill and dale, always seeking what’s around the next bend in the highway, byway, or trail.  But during all of [...]

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Hunting For Lions and Food in San Francisco

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Hunting For Lions in San Francisco How many lions could you possibly find prowling around the City of San Francisco? To answer this question, travel writers and filmmakers Jules and Effin Older went “on safari” in The City By The Bay and shot this 49-sec0nd video clip which has made the “final cut” in the [...]

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Paying For The News, Upfront

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Where do you get your news, and how do you pay for it? Newspapers and magazine subscriptions are one way. Advertising, which we all pay for  indirectly, is another way.  You can also become a dues-paying members of  local public TV and radio stations. But what if we, the readers, listeners and viewers, directly helped [...]

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Live, From Maui!

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(Dick Jordan is on location in Hawaii.  Video clips he shoots will be available in the video player window below.  Mouse over it and click on “Menu” to select a click to play.  Click here if the video player window does not display in your Web browser). Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Dick Jordan

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Rick Steves Talks with Paul Theroux (Wed., June 15)

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On Wednesday, June 15, European travel guru, Rick Steves, will be recording new shows for his radio program, “Travel With Rick Steves.”  He’ll start off with a conversation with legendary travel writer Paul Theroux (whose book The Tao of Travel:  Enlightenments From Lives on the Road has recently been released) at 10:45 a.m. PDT. At [...]

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