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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously (Part 4)

Travel Essays

(The third installment of Dick Jordan’s recollections of the events of September 11, 2001 appeared last Monday.  The story concludes today). Unhappy Travels A month after returning from Europe we were in the air again, this time flying from San Francisco to Newark where we picked up a rental car and drove northwestward into Pennsylvania.  [...]

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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously (Part 3)

Travel Essays

(The second installment of Dick Jordan’s recollections of the events of September 11, 2001 appeared last Monday.  The story continues today). Arrival in Italy, At Last! The weather had been good for flying and only a few puffy clouds floated in the skies ahead of us.  We crossed the still snow-clad upper reaches of the [...]

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Destination Update (9/23/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Off To Bodø, Norway (Matadortrips.com) “Glamping” in North Carolina (The Washington Post) Desert Island Discovery (GoNOMAD.com) 36 Hours in Rio (The New York Times) Maui Lavender Farm (Travel Weekly) The “Little House” World (Los Angeles Times) Getting Your Goat (AFAR Blog) Eating Dordogne (GoNOMAD.com) “Home-Style” [...]

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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously (Part 2)

Travel Essays

(The first installment of Dick Jordan’s recollections of the events of September 11, 2001 appeared last Monday.  The story continues today). Departure Day I turned on my computer before breakfast on Saturday and went to the Alitalia Website.  Departures to the U.S. had resumed. A plane from Milan to San Francisco was in the air, [...]

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Destination Update (9/9/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Run, Don’t Walk (The Washington Post) Surf’s Up, Art’s Up, At Paia (The New York Times) Rediscovering Newfoundland (GoNOMAD.com) Who Owns “David”? (The New York Times) Under Cover At A Prohibition Era Hotel (San Francisco Chronicle) 36 Hours In Silicon Valley (The New York Times) [...]

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Destination Update (7/29/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Five Stops On The Way To Venice (BootsnAll) Manhattan Rooftop Bars (The New York Times) Milwaukee’s Top 10 “Date” Places (GoNOMAD.com) England’s Cotswolds (Los Angeles Times) Highs And Lows At The Bay Of Fundy (Dallas Morning News) Ethnic Dining In Madrid (The New York Times) [...]

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Destination Update (6/24/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: High Sierra Summer (San Francisco Chronicle) Upscale U.S. Rail Travel (The Los Angeles Times) Driving The Blue Ridge Parkway (AP via The Seattle Times) Big Apple Boutique Hotels (The New York Times) Amtraking America (The Los Angeles Times) An Alaskan Summer Solstice (The Oregonian) Lerici?  [...]

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Travel News Update (5/23/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are today’s travel and travel technology headlines with links to the stories on the Web: 9 Things To Know About Vacation Rentals (Elliott.org) Tips For Buying Trip Insurance (Chicago Tribune) Glacier Meltdown In Montana (AP via The Oregonian) Staying In An Italian “B&B Village” (The New York Times) “Ger-Mex”:  What’s That? (The New York [...]

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