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Vacation bound I wish

I don’t know about anybody else but I am ready for a much-needed vacation — one that involves no computer, no emails, no phone calls and quite frankly, not even my cell phone.

FlightNetwork Shows How to Blow New Year’s Resolutions in Style

The holiday revelry has come to a close and as we ease into the new year, realization sets in that one might just be, despite the best of intentions, exactly the same as the year before. To help deal with the pain, FlightNetwork® has compiled a list of great ways to break 10 of the most popular New Year’s resolutions in style, and enjoy the experience to the fullest. ...

How to Book a $1700 Vacation for $700 by Volunteering [Travel]

# travel No matter how good you are at rolling the dice on airplane tickets, vacations are an expensive undertaking. Sure, with careful planning, saving, and budgeting, you may eventually make your way to the beaches of Hawaii and smell the scent of 1,000 pounds of suntan lotion. Or, if you don't feel like spending every cent you can scrape together, you take a volunteer vacation now, and save a ...

Personal touches make vacation accommodations feel more like home

Last Sunday I received a call from artist William Welch to say he liked last week's column and especially the title of my new book. He said, "You should copyright that." For anyone interested, my... read more

NFL's Top 10 Disposable Broadcast "Talents"

Earlier this week, SportsIllustrated.com released two lists of the " NFL 's Most Indispensable Broadcasting Talents," and while I didn't have a problem with the names that populated the top 10s of Richard Deitsch or James Andrew Miller, I do take umbrage with the creation of such a list. Yes, we can all agree that Al Michaels is the gold standard in pro football play-by-play. We're not going to ...