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Best and worst vacation accidents. Ever discovered a favorite restaurant or attraction by accident during your travels? On the flip side, ever done something that you lived to regret, and defined the entire vacation (like forgetting your passport)? This week, I’d like to hear about your best — and worst — vacation accidents. Please send me your stories and don’t forget your full name, city and occupation.
In this issue. Should you take a “nakation”? Also, is the health-care debate missing something? (Yes, it is.) And what should we do about Queen Mary’s little gas problem?
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• 5 reasons to bare it all on your next vacation (MSNBC.com)
• The health-care gap that traps travelers (The Washington Post)
• Queen Mary’s little gas problem
• Tarmac delay hall of shame: Delta, American — please take a bow!
• Victim of seatback police: “It felt like we had somehow landed in a World War II movie”
• Minimum-wage pilots? Here’s one way of looking at flight deck salaries
• One airline ticket for the price of two?
• Bad news, bargain-hounds: “The worst appears to be over” for lodging industry
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