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Portfolio Archives: The Nuts and Bolts of Travel

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How to Survive a Cruise Ship When You Don’t Like Cruising

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomJune 17, 201710 Comments

Wasn’t your idea, but you’re on a cruise and you find it’s not your thing. How to cope? Check out how to survive a cruise ship when you don’t like cruising.

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Thoughts from the Fallout of United Airlines

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomApril 14, 201718 Comments

After United Airlines forcibly removed a passenger, we need to know the rights, and lack thereof, included with an airline ticket, and how it’s skewed heavily in the airline’s favor.

The things we miss when we travel
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The Sites We Miss—How Not To See That Famous Castle

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomJanuary 27, 201726 Comments

The best-laid plans often go awry, but perhaps they’re not the best plans anway. A planned afternoon visit to a castle turns philosophical about the real importance of travel sights.

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How To Become A Travel Snob

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomNovember 25, 201626 Comments

One can see the Eiffel Tower from points all over Paris, and this is a good thing, as it adds to the background and helps your wonderful photos.  And yet, ask anyone who travels a bit about actually going up the tower, including me, and you’ll probably receive a shudder, as one of the first…

Is Europe safe?
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After Brussels and Paris (and Madrid and London), everyone is asking: Is traveling to Europe safe?

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomApril 19, 2016Leave a comment

After recent terrorist attacks, everyone is asking “Is Europe safe?” Let’s examine how a destination is safe or not and what strange advice experts give.

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We Have slowly Lost Our Ability To Choose A Seat On The Airplane

The Nuts and Bolts of TravelBy TomApril 9, 2016Leave a comment

En guard. The audacious practice of airlines charging their valuable customers to choose a seat is slowly spreading. The airlines, nomenclature-meisters all, call this trend “unbundling”, charging for things that used to be standard. Once upon a time, in an industry far, far away, the privileged purchaser of an airplane trip could count on the…

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