The gift of travel books, from coffee table to memoir
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2019783915_travelbooksxml.html
National Geographic's ?World's Best Travel Experiences? ($40) looks at wild places, urban spaces, man-made wonders and other extraordinary destinations, from beach paradises to religious pilgrimage sites. There's even a list of best places for dance ...
Class-action suit against Jersey travel clubs can move forward
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/12/class-action_suit_against_jers.html
A federal appeals court last week reversed a lower court's ruling, saying customers who claimed Turner's travel companies bilked them out of thousands of dollars showed enough evidence to pursue their suit. The court upheld the dismissal for two ...
Budget Travel: As We Approach the Holidays, Travel News Becomes More Bizarre
http://www.theledger.com/article/20121202/NEWS/121209900
Travel within the U.S. is perhaps about to get a bit more colorful. That's because of the recent vote in the state of Colorado, legalizing the use of small amounts of marijuana for recreational purposes. Though Colorado tourist officials are vehement ...
City creates travel policy, costs still rise
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20121202/WDH01/312020223/City-creates-travel-policy-costs-still-rise
La Crosse Finance Director Wayne Delagrave said his city's travel policy is similar to Wausau's; department directors and finance department workers review all travel requests. The city's mayor, however, takes a final look before travel is approved ...
Cairo to Cape Town: World's most incredible bus journey(s)
http://travel.cnn.com/road-cairo-cape-town-988076
We took two short flights to avoid conflict zones in Sudan and on the Kenya/Ethiopia border, but other than that, buses proved to be the best bet on a continent where a lack of infrastructure and maintenance over many decades has made train travel ...
Short hits: Travel, change, and some politics and policy
http://pollways.bangordailynews.com/2012/12/02/national/short-hits-travel-change-and-some-politics-and-policy/?ref=blogswidget
One of my favorite travel blogs, Vagabond Journey, is run by Wade Shepard, an American who has been traveling the world for years, and is now doing so with his wife and young child. Shepard is smart, savvy and goes beyond typical tourist tips in so ...
Favorite Travel Websites: Price Most Important in Survey
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/travelers-pick-favorite-booking-sites-web/story?id=17846859
How satisfied you are with the price you pay for your next vacation may dictate how satisfied you are overall with the travel website you used. That's according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Independent Travel Website Satisfaction Report. The ...
Travel Notes: Many forgo vacation time
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/travel/travel-notes-many-forgo-vacation-time-664557/
As an information technology supervisor at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., Dennis Crowley had so much work to do last year that he finished 2011 without using nearly five days of paid vacation. "And to be frank, I was too busy to even realize I ...
