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		<title>Touring Austria with tour operators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Austria during the summer of 2008, I took a couple of tours, as I have been doing the past several years.  I find that organized tours, while they can be a little confining, you learn so much more about the place that you are visiting than you would on your own &#8230; as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=314&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe 2008 &#8230; travel planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many think that traveling to Europe or outside their home country is expensive ... and it is!  But, international travel is not prohibitively expensive.  Well, the most expensive component of most trips is actually getting there, that is, air travel cost.  So, I am going to talk about transportation in this post.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=204&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AAA Travel &#8230; okay, that was dumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early May 2008, I will be going to Colorado Springs, which I am excited.  Like so many of my travels, there&#8217;s a glitch.  Delta cancelled my departing flight from home.  The second glitch &#8230; I used AAA Travel to make my flight arrangements.  Since this is a business trip, it is easier to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=201&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t airlines make sense?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/why-dont-airlines-make-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, as in yesterday, I had to make airline reservations to Atlanta.  My reservations where under the 21 day rule for lower fares.  This I have no problem with.  Well, I have a little problems, because it cost so much more money!  But I can understand, well not really, but as travelers, we know that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=200&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my possible holiday trips this summer is a 7-day Alaskan cruise on Royal Caribbean.  Deciding which cruise line to take can be difficult, as it was in my case.  I&#8217;ve been critical of travel agencies and their cookie cutter service, which is one of the reasons why I painstakingly make my travel arrangements myself, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=199&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STA &amp; G.A.P. &#8212; Travel for the young?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/sta-gap-travel-for-the-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I received my periodic STA (Student Travel) email with updates on travel deals and destinations.  STA [a Swiss found company] has an office at the University of Kentucky and provide travel arrangement for students &#8230; young students.  By the way, I am a full-time graduate student and a full-time employee and I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=193&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to use a travel agent?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/when-to-use-a-travel-agent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not or when to use a travel agency is one of those nagging considerations that I make as I plan or decide where I want to go.  To date, I have yet to use an agent, but there have been times when I wondered, should I have used an agent or not.
Here&#8217;s my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=188&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happened to the G.A.P. Antarctic cruise ship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened to the G.A.P. Antarctic cruise ship?  This cruise ship hit ice November 23, 2007 and sank.  Fortunately, all the passengers and crew members were rescued after spending some time in life boats waiting for other cruise ships to take them aboard.
This is a trip I would like to take &#8230; I think, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=67&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When does a tour become an adventure?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/when-does-a-tour-become-an-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not quite &#8220;to be or not to be&#8221;, but this question of tour or adventure has been nagging me.  Some tour operators, such as G.A.P. advertise their vacation/holiday packages as adventures instead of tours.  Okay, I understand that a tour is a journey that starts at a starting point and typically ends at the starting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=37&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s bad press or is it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the Antarctic accident and am glad that everyone evacuated the ship to safety.  I certainly do not want anyone to think that I am blaming G.A.P. for the accident &#8230; right now, it sounds just like an accident.  Of course, this accident will impact the environment, but it sounds like it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=32&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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