More Disney Ships

Disney has two of the prettiest cruise ships afloat, and soon it will have two more.  The extra good news is that Disney says it will  stick with the "classic trans-Atlantic ocean liner look with the exterior color palette borrowed from Mickey Mouse."

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Strange Questions Asked On Vacation: Costa Rica

Among the interesting question I’ve been asked while on vacation: "Are we going to die?"

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I’ll tell you where to go … Florida Drive Out

It’s that time of year when the rental car companies start moving their fleets northward. They do it by offering great one-way deals from Florida to points north. How great? How about $10 a week.

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Suspicious Traces

I could think up a lot of reasons to end up at the 24-hour CVS on the Las Vegas strip buying isopropyl alcohol, and they’d all beat the reason that put me there. It all started at Bradley, where my carry-on tested positive for explosives.

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The Disposable Digital

Well, it’s not really disposable. More like recycleable. But a couple of drugstores now sell a digital, one-time use camera made by Pure Digital Technologies that definitely has its up side.

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Traveler’s Choice: Groped Or Ogled?

The new backscatter security scanner is now in operation at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. It can see through your clothes! But don’t worry about that. You can refuse to provide X-ray porn for the TSA and opt to be groped, I mean patted down, instead. The TSA is not saying how it chooses passengers for "optional" secondary screening by the new scanner. Let’s hope it’s not by cup size.

Pass The Passports, Please

All right. You need a passport to go to Canada or Mexico. If you fly. Or if you go after next January – maybe. But not if you’re under 15 years old. Unless you fly. Got it?

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Baggage Blackmail

Some airlines are imposing stricter limits on baggage, both checked and carry-on, and the idea seems to be spreading.  Let’s call this what it is – money-grubbing by a desperate industry.

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I already told you where to go …

If you like to cruise, you need to consider this deal. I mentioned it before, and I’m mentioning it again because it’s just killing me that I can’t go on this cruise.

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Hooray For Passengers’ Rights

I think Jet Blue is doing the right thing, but I don’t think it’s enough.  We still need a passengers’ bill of rights that applies across the industry. And it needs to be a law.

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