10 Travel Web Sites Worth Bookmarking - Seth Kugel - 0 views
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Frederick Smith on 10 Oct 12Frugal Traveler - 10 web aids to travel within budget
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Is the Best Travel Search Engine Around the Corner? - 0 views
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"...In tests of the real-life niche travel agencies in New York City and elsewhere that serve specific immigrant communities, pitched against the popular Web sites - like Expedia, Kayak, Vayama - nearly every time, travel agents bested the Internet big boys on both price (the objective part of the test) and service (what you might call the essay question). In other words, the agents suggested alternate routes, gave advice on visas and just generally acted, well, more human than their computer counterparts."
3 Things I Learned re Frugal Travel (and Things I Didn't Do) - 0 views
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After 4 years, Matt Gross is handing in his Frugal Traveler badge, but he forever remains an eager, untiring traveler - and, depending on your point of view, a frugal one.
China Sees Growth Engine in a Web of Fast Trains - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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In China, 42 high-speed rail lines have opened or are set to open by 2012; the U.S. hopes to build its first high-speed line by 2014. The Chinese bullet train, which has the world's fastest average speed, travels 664 miles from Guangzhouon the coast to Wuhan, deep in the interior. In a little more than three hours. Travelling the same distance from Boston to southern Virginia, the train takes less time than Amtrak's fastest train, the Acela, takes to go from Boston to New York. By comparison, the United States hopes to build its first high-speed rail line by 2014 - linking only the 84 miles between Tampa and Orlando, Fla.
Frank Bruni, Incomparable Vistas: Portuguese Douro - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The Douro winemaking region offers breathtaking views, cities that invite exploring and the delight of discovering it all for yourself.
Practical Traveler - Rolling Out the Yoga Mat - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Yoga at hotels & spas.
For TKTS and Shakespeare Tickets, Strategize - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Shakespeare in the Park tickets can now be requested online, and TKTS has smaller satellite booths in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
Q&A-C.S.Brown-CruiseCritic.com - Frugal Traveler - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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In 2010: $50-75 bucks.day very easily from close to home (to avoid flying - yr-round from New York, seasonally from Boston) - go on older ship, shoulder/off-season,Carib or Eur(hi compet'n) inside cabin (Norwegian has window to hall), Avoid alcohol,spa,boat shore excursion,on-board Internet. No tips in Europe.
The Emerging "Coffee Party" Movement & coincidental convergence - 1 views
Americans' Break for Coffee: "Let's wake up, smell the coffee, and converse civilly about America's ABCs" (Incomplete write-up-2/14/10) A. Our Government is Paralyzed Americans Break for Coff...
Hopkins Doctor Seeks Safer Patient Care - Interview - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, travels the country advising hospitals on innovative safety measures.
Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget - Susan Gregory Thomas - 0 views
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3-d retreat at Jesuit Ctr, Wernersville, PA, w/ spiritual direction ($540)
9/11 & Pearl Harbor, Muslims & Japan - 0 views
On 8/3, my good friend and much-admired fellow physician Patrick Cavanaugh brought up a relevant question - asking, "Would a Japanese history museum be appropriate at the Arizona memorial [at Pearl...
A SRI LANKAN CHRISTIAN'S REFLECTION ON WHEATON'S ACTION TOWARD DR. HAWKINS - 0 views
The signatories above do not necessarily affirm all of the content or language of the following essay. It is added (1) to illuminate the way in which Muslims and Christians refer to the same God, w...
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