At the end of December 2019, I was getting an itch to travel some more. I started browsing TourRadar and found a tour that hits both India and Nepal. In my 2020 Timecapsule post, I even talked about having found the tour but not booked it, yet. I was supposed to travel in April of …
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As I have mentioned previously, I am visiting Italy at the end of the month. I am spending one night in Naples, eight nights in Rome, and three nights in Venice. I am already hoping to see Pompeii, Herculaneum, Pisa, the Vatican, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, etc. Have any suggestions about things that I …
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Back in 2019 (before the pandemic was a thing), I arranged to go to India and Nepal in April 2020 and then I rescheduled it for October 2021 before giving up, completely. Relatively recently, I booked airfare and accommodations to see Italy in 2022. I figured that despite the fact that India very recently reopened …
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In 2018, I visited China and in 2019, I went a little crazy and visited England (twice), France (twice), Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, and Spain. In 2020, I wanted to see India and Nepal but the global covid pandemic killed that plan and in the end, it wasn’t even in the card for 2021. At one …
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Next weekend, I am driving up to Ashland and I want to hit a few of the harder-to-reach parks along the way. As I said before, I set a goal of visiting every state park in Wisconsin within the next few years. So far, I have covered Aztalan, Richard Bong State Recreation Area, Natural Bridge …
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You might have noticed from my recent travel posts that I have gotten really into international travel since my 2018 trip. When I took that trip, I used LoungeBuddy to pay to get into the Air France lounge in Terminal 5. Unfortunately, since American Express’ purchase of LoungeBuddy, they have pulled support for both of …
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In another post in my “frugal traveler” series, I wanted to talk about “mistake fares”. Mistake fares are what happens when an airline accidentally puts the wrong price on a flight. More often than not, if you book one of these mistakenly cheap flights they will cancel your booking and refund your money. Every now …
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If you have ever visited jws.dev, you might have noticed my Travel Goals page. I think that I’m setting the overall goal of knocking out everything from the list by the time I hit 60. I’ll be 40 in August, so that’s a little over 20 years.
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This is going to be a pretty quick post. I spun up the tumblr blog Joe Travels and gave it the twitter feed @JWSTravels. It posts one pseudorandom photo per day from my travels. I stocked up the queue with roughly four months of posts. I’ll refresh it with some more photos later in the …
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As you might know, I really enjoy traveling. I also really enjoy finding a good deal on travel. There are a few good resources for finding cheap airfare. Notification Services Scott’s Cheap Flights I discovered Scott’s after I booked my 2018 China trip. They have a team of people who look for airfare deals. Scott’s …
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