Posts Tagged ‘Travel Tidbits and Tips’

World Travel Guide:Looking back at Dr Pepper, the Little House and London Calling

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.I love poking around in my archive attic, especially with this blog’s 4th Anniversary coming up in February 2010….
A year ago on the Family Travel Guide, we had fun talking about:
***  Sugar overload at the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, TX
***  Nautical fun in Norfolk, VA
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World Travel Guides:We have a new Facebook Fan Page

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.The Family Travel Guide has a new Facebook Fan Page; it’s one of the ways we’re working with the BootsnAll Travel Network to get the word out about this blog (which will celebrate its 4th bloggy birthday on February 10, 2010 - can you believe it?!)
Right now the Page is

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Travel Guide:Travel now, before your teen says “buzz off”

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I love my kids, but there is a 7-year age difference between my 17-year-old and my 10-year-old, and that makes all of that family bonding a little rough (I had each child on Navy shore duty assignments, and there was a 7 year stretch at sea between pregnancies. Kinda into planning….that’s

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World Travel Guide:Twitter Lists of family travel bloggers

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.Those of you who are on Twitter may wonder how you can find other “tweeple” who enjoy travel and like to tweet about it.   The “Find People” search function on Twitter is notoriously inaccurate,  so finding like-minded travel fans is not always a simple task.A

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World Travel Guides:Carnival of Cities for 18 November 2009

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Welcome to the November 18, 2009 edition of the Carnival of Cities, where we find out about goings-on in cities and towns across the world, all in a single blog post. Thanks very much to Glennia at the Silent I who hosted the previous edition.I’m happy to consider hosts for

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Travel Guides:Thanksgiving travel packing tips

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.Are you braving the busiest travel days in the US in the next few weeks? That’s right, it’s the Thanksgiving holiday, so have some Tums (or your antacid of choice.) If you insist on flying, remember that the airline experience these days is often similar to the worst bus

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Travel Guide:Need a laugh? Low-cost airline spoof video had me rolling

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Y’all know I can be pretty tight-fisted, right? I’ll happily spend money when it makes sense to do so, and for things and experiences that are special, but when it comes to transportation and hotels, I’m okay with your basic clean versions. I simply want to get back

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Travel Guides:What you see here is what you get: new FTC rules and this blog

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Many of you may have seen news items and/or blog posts about the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules pertaining to blogger disclosures and celebrity endorsements.   They take effect on 1 December 2009 and violations will incur fines of up to US,000.I have rather strong opinions

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Travel Information:Hunting for travel deals? Don’t forget these Web sites

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.We’re so used to using search engines like Google or the new Bing Travel to look for travel deals (and metasearch engines like Kayak or Travelocity to book trips) that it’s easy to forget one “old school” way to do it….The visitor’s Web sites that

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Travel Tour:We have a Savannah guidebook winner

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Yay! The comment left by Sara last week was the winning comment to win my copy of a great Savannah family travel guidebook.She wrote:“I am hoping to go visit my girlfriend in Atlanta. She has a three year old and I have a one year old. We want to take a long weekend to Savannah [...]

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