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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

My Broken Back Cost Much Less in France Than Travel Insurance

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    Sweeping View of the French Riviera      In January this year, I wrote an article about how unnecessary travel insurance is if you pa...
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

What Cruise Lines and Tour Operators Don't Want You to Know

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  I know tour operators don't want you to know because I posted some of the following information in a popular FaceBook cruise travel g...
Friday, August 4, 2023

The Barbie Movie

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    The Barbie movie would have you believe that the world of little girls was changed when the Betsy-Wetsy doll was replaced ...
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Saturday, May 7, 2022

Vehicle Blessing or Cheap Road Repair? The Choice Is Yours!

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 While I love my Lincoln Zephyr, a model only made for one glorious year in 2006, I have never had it blessed as is the routine for new taxi...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Tantalizing Travel Tips

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Dinan, France This blog, Brent and Michael Are Going Places , is packed with tantalizing travel tips that may actually lure armchair travele...
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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Travel Tip for Using Phone's GPS in a Rental Car

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  Last time I was in North Carolina, I noticed that my son had this clever cell phone holder that mounted to his car's air vent. That se...
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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Flying into the Heart of a Pandemic

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  ORD Airport in Chicago has restrooms that encourage social distancing. Each sink faucet is flanked on the left by a soap dispenser and ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Alaska or Mexico?

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  Since the only traveling I'm doing during the pandemic of 2020 is virtually, I'm rereading some early blog pieces and publishing...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

Death on a Sunday Afternoon

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Since the only traveling I'm doing during the pandemic of 2020 is virtually, I'm rereading some early blog pieces and publishing o...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Phoebe's Fun Finds

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One of Phoebe's and my favorite stores in Florence, Italy! My friend Phoebe seldom sits still. She divides her time between her tw...
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I'm a former English teacher who's always suffered from wanderlust. Living four years in Mexico helped, but the wanderlust is incurable and, seemingly, insatiable. I want 365 days of travel a year. The Tightwad Travel blog is my medicine.
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