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The vacation or business trip is over and it’s time to leave your hotel for the final time. Your bags are packed. You’ve done a visual sweep of the bed,…

Joe and I have certainly done our share of traveling over the years. We’re admittedly creatures of habit, and we know what we like, so we frequently go to some…

“Pictures, or it didn’t happen.” In this day and age, it’s easy to take pictures of almost anything, at almost any time. Those quick and easy photos you can take…

Over the past 20 to 30 years, bed bugs have become a growing problem all over the world, especially in hotels. Small, oval brown insects, they live on the blood…

I usually know off the top of my head which is the best credit card for each type of purchase. Expenses for airfare, dining (either in the U.S. or worldwide),…

When Joe went to NY for a business trip for 2 weeks a while back, I went up and stayed with him for a few days in the middle of…

If you don’t travel a whole lot, you may be kind of behind the 8 ball when it comes to preparing for travel. You may not be sure of things…

Halloween Horror Nights is an annual event at Universal Studios theme parks in Florida, California, Singapore and Japan. It began as a 3-day event at Universal Studios Florida in 1991…

This is what happened to me on my way home from meeting friends for a get-together in Rhode Island. We were all loaded onto the plane, I was settled into…

Back in the early-to-mid 1990s, Joe and I were both members of a theme parks-themed message group on the long-extinct online service called Prodigy (anybody? Beuller? Beuller?). There were several…