Monthly Archives: January 2008

Taking A Cheap Trip To Italy: how to start planning a trip on a budget

    You can approach the planning of a trip in a number of ways. For me I narrow it down to where I roughly want to go and then figure out how much it will cost.  From here I can add or subtract locations or side trips.  As I'm currently ...

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The First Step In Travel: getting your passport

     It may seem pretty straight forward but it is a question I get asked from time to time.  Here are a few tips and resources to help you along on the first step to any trip outside the US, getting your passport.

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Letter To The Editor: how to at over 40?

  Hi Chris, I have just found your blog and love it.  Thanks for setting it up.  Have a big question though don't know if can or want to answer it for me.  My husband and I will be 51 and 48 next February 2009 when we plan to set off and travel from one end of ...

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The Best Dinner I Have Ever Had In Europe, Twice: seafood spaghetti that i traveled 8 hours to get

    You may have heard of Cinque Terre Italy. Travel writer Rick Steves has almost single handedly popularized the five fishing villages along the Mediterranean coast of Italy.  It is in the western most village of Monterosso that I have had the best meal of my life, twice.   The ...

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