I’ll tell you where to go … L.A.

I like Los Angeles. The car culture, the wide boulevards, the In-N-Out burgers, the palm trees and sunglasses. If you like L.A. and you’d like to go there before the end of the summer, now might be a good time to book.

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Exotic America: Tucson

I’ve been around a bit, but I’ve never seen a more exotic landscape than the saguaro forests around Tucson, especially on a moonlit night.

It’s one of the places that every American should see.

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Madrid, Round Trip, For $8.37

I know two people, I’ll just call them Mom and Dad, who are flying to Madrid and back for $8.37 each. I can’t tell you how to book that fare because it doesn’t exist. But I can tell you how it happened, and maybe some day you can position yourself to let something like that happen to you.

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For a good trip …

… e-mail Jeanne! Hey reader. Yeah, I’m talking to you!  Why aren’t you talking to me? Leave a comment or e-mail me with a question. I’d love to hear from you. Jeanne

Book, Shovel, Rebook

My parents had a flight booked to Tampa on Wednesday, which turned out to be the only day of the winter when the weather shut down Bradley. Wouldn’t you know it.

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I’ll tell you where to go … NY / NH

Travelzoo, one of my favorite travel websites, has a couple of nice deals for a little road-trip vacation, if you’re in the mood.

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Awful Restraint

So, we had another plane full of passengers stuck on a runway in a storm. This time it was for eight hours on JetBlue at JFK. This has to stop happening.

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Amsterdam, But Not ‘Til Fall

Northwest Airlines is offering a frequent-flier mileage incentive for the direct Bradley-to-Amsterdam flights it will start July 1. At the moment, it doesn’t look like a very appealing deal for the summer. But it might be worth thinking about for travel this fall.

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Car Rental Merger

Two corporations that own two car rental companies each are talking merger. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group owns Dollar and, you guessed it, Thrifty. Vanguard Car Rental owns Alamo and National. Could a merger be good for consumers? Let me think about that. Ummm. No.

E-Mail Trip Folders

I am disorganized by nature, so I have to be a very organized traveler. If I weren’t, I would never get where I’m going.  One of the most important tools I use to organize trips, especially long and complicates ones, is the folder in my Yahoo! mail account.

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