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This Week’s Guest: Jessica Spiegel of the Boots N’ All Network. This Week’s Stories

Gaming the luggage system
Slave Village Opens up at National Park
BootsnAll – “How I Travel” series
Mail: Air Passengers Who Refuse A Full Body Scan To Be Barred From Flights
CNN: The $27,000 [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Kim Mance of TBEX and Galavanting.

Couches in coach: Air New Zealand plans lie-flat seats – USATODAY.com
Sky Couch In Coach: Air New Zealand Designs Flip-Up Cushion To Make Bed – The Middle Seat Terminal – WSJ
Employees to Warm up Your Hotel Bed by [...]

I have read a number of stories and countless twitter posts recently about the the “Haiti cruise ship scandal“. The issue is that here less than one week after Haiti has suffered a major earthquake and while people are still digging out what may total 200,000 bodies, Royal Caribbean is disembarking cruise ship passengers on [...]

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This Week’s Guest:
David Lytle – Editorial Director for Frommers.com
Robert Reid – US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet
Topics Discussed This Week: 

Passenger in Oregon to Hawaii air incident faces charges (don’t fly crazy)
Man threatening Jews taken off Detroit-bound flight (or stupid)
Airlines ground two flights due to disruptive passengers
The Miami Herald is reporting that Carnival [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Sean Keener of BootsNAll.com
Topics Discussed This Week: 

the TSA backs down
Favorite destinations from 2009

Sean: New Zealand and Singapore
Chris: Prague in the Czech Republic and Oaxaca, Mexico
Jen: Charleston, South Carolina
Gary: Oman and Italy

New Media Cruise / Podcamp@Sea
Predictions for travel in 2010
Plans for 2010

Picks of the Week
Sean: coming soon… new writer’s [...]

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This Week’s Guests: Johnny Jet of JohnnyJet.com
Topics Discussed This Week: 

US security tightened after failed terror plot
‘Keep Your Hands Where We Can See Them,’ Demands New TSA Flight Rules
Full text of my subpoena from the Department of Homeland Security
TSA plays hardball with airline blogger over security directive

Picks of the Week

Jen: Travel Resolutions for [...]

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This Week’s Guests: Spud Hilton, travel editor of The San Francisco Chronicle
Topics Discussed This Week:

Oasis of the Seas sets sail
City Center opens in Vegas
Delta Finally Refunds Man Who Tracked Down And Got Prosecuted Baggage Handler Who Stole His Camera

Picks of the Week:

Jen: 100 Greatest Trips of 2009
Chris: Matador U
Spud: Eye-Fi
Gary: Place of [...]

No273 13 Oct 2009 Sneeze
Originally uploaded by mcfarlandmo
In case you were not sure, yes we are a little paranoid about Swine Flu.
Oahu woman kicked off United flight after crew suspected she had the flu
A 50-year-old Oahu woman says she was booted from a flight from Tampa to Hawaii because the flight crew aboard the aircraft [...]

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This Week’s Guests: Debbie Dubrow of Deliciousbaby.com
Topics Discussed this week:

Passenger creates big debate at American – I mean big!
Man Misses Funeral After Southwest Kicks Him Off
Passports With Purpose
True or False: Great Photography Sells Hotel Rooms

Picks of the Week:

Jen: Oyster.com Hotels reviews
Debbie: RoomAtlas.com
Chris: HotelVideoReviews.com
Gary: Padua, Italy

I would like to travel more and I would love to see more countries, but I am not sure that breaking a record for doing it quickly is quite my goal.
Businessman spends £350k to visit every country on earth in record time (just don’t ask to see his snaps)
He spent £350,000 to visit every country [...]