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McCook, Nebraska and Ft. Morgan, Colorado in search of Charlie Dowd
Still searching for Charlie Dowd, good friend’s and client’s of All About Travel are in search of a family friend. Dowd was on a travel adventure via Amtrak from the San Francisco Bay area to visit family. From the FB page Missing Person: Charlie Dowd – Please help us find him: Sunday AM Update: Charlie’s last…
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What you need to know about tipping
Has travel tipping gotten out of hand? Consultant Keith Anderson of Atlanta thinks so. “I’m 51 years old and I grew up when it was pretty black and white who you tipped. It’s grayed tremendously in the last decade or so.” Nowadays, it seems everyone has his or her hand or tip jar out, travelers…
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San Francisco’s top cheap eats
Last year when GQ Magazine said that San Francisco was experiencing the US’s most exciting food movement, it just solidified what most people already knew: San Francisco is a food lover’s paradise. In a city that some claim has more restaurants per capita than any other major city in the US, it’s no surprise that…
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50 years gone, Marilyn’s legend lives on
She was a star and a style icon, a “dumb blonde” who was anything but and an abandoned child adored by millions. She was, of course, Marilyn Monroe and she died 50 years ago this Sunday. And yet, she lives on — on the big screen, in advertisements, in proposed plans for salons and cafes…
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Tips for using taxis in Europe
When people ask me about the scariest situation I’ve ever been in, I think back to a taxi ride I took to the Moscow airport in the early ’90s. A no-neck guy who looked like a classic Russian mafia thug picked me up in a beat-up old car and drove for an hour down puddle-filled…
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Airlines make record $22.6 billion from fees, report finds
U.S. airlines bring in more revenue from fees for bags and other products and services than do the world’s other carriers, a new report released today reveals. United, Delta and American finished in the top three — each generating billions in ancillary revenue outside airfares last year, according to the report by IdeaWorks, a consultant…
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TSA Agent Opens Grandfather’s Cremated Remains, Spills Them, Laughs at Grandson
Indianapolis’s ABC affiliate reports that John Gross was leaving Florida to return home to Indianapolis when a TSA official spilled ashes on the floor of the airport. “They opened my bag, and I told them, ‘Please, be careful. These are my grandpa’s ashes,’” Gross told RTV6. Gross said he was “told later on that she…
