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“I feel terrible for you!” sighed Sherry, watching me lug my suitcase through the sultry New York streets.  ”I’m so sorry we have no place for you to sleep tonight!”

I chuckled.  ”Literally,” I said, “this is the hundredth time I’ve showed up in a city and had nowhere to stay.  And yet, miraculously, it always works out in the end.”

Sherry looked dubious and murmured, “I really hope you’ll be all right.”

It was the first night of the massive TBEX10 world [...Read More!]

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It’s fitting that the TBEX10 world travel blogger conference occurred in New York City on the same weekend as the NYC Gay Pride march.  If you are a blogger and are passionate about it, to reveal this to others has a distinct air of “Coming out.”

When you reveal your big secret for the first time, how will the listener react?

Will they judge you? Will they try to dig up information they could deem incriminating?  Will they accuse you of making [...Read More!]

How to Not Dumbly Waste Money in RTW Travel

Nicholas Kristof’s fascinating recent New York Times article about unwise budgeting by some of the world’s poorest families, “Moonshine or the Kids,“ reveals a truth that applies to all classes of humans around the world: We’d each have a whole lot more money if we stopped spending piles of it on silly things.

That in mind, let us take a tour of the stupid things I did and didn’t spend money on during my nine month journey around the world.  If you read this [...Read More!]

A Breaking Update in Pineapple Technology!

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled travel blog to bring you an extremely important update on pineapple-eating technology.

“You HAVE to see this,” declared my cousin Eric the moment I entered his Manhattan apartment on my jaunt to New York last week.

“What is it??” I gasped in anticipation, expecting something as miraculous as a pet unicorn, given my cousin’s worshipful tone.

Eric reached into a kitchen drawer and withdrew… a gleaming silver rod with a curved blade at the bottom.  ”Ta da!” he sang.

“Wha?” [...Read More!]

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