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Common sense has always been a precious commodity in travel. You don’t need stories about tourists plunging off cliffs in their cars or YouTube videos of national park visitors nearly being mauled by wild animals they were trying to pet to be reminded of that uncomfortable fact.
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When I visited Scott Jordan in his Ketchum, Idaho, home office a few weeks ago, his dogs greeted me. Scott, the CEO of SCOTTeVEST, makes awesome wearable luggage, including vests, shirts, and jackets.
Here’s a question I’ve been reluctant to ask during our spring fundraiser, but it demands to be answered: What happens if we fail?
“I have this idea for a website,” I said to my CNN.com editor, leaning forward in my seat.
Leslie O’Flahavan looks more like an English teacher than an airline employee. Everything about her is no-nonsense, from her curly black hair, to her Nordstrom business-casual attire, to her carefully chosen words.
Maybe that’s because she spent nearly a decade as a high school educator. But she has moved on to a different kind of teaching: tutoring airlines on how to use the right words to respond to passenger comments and complaints.
Don’t blow your summer vacation. And I mean that literally.
Consider what happened to Tia Johnson when she drove through Georgia early one morning.
Worried that your trip to Hawaii will come to an explosive climax after hot lava engulfs your oceanside rental? That’s just one of the irrational travel fears spreading faster than a Puna brush fire as the summer vacation season starts
If you’ve ever regretted the purchase you just made — also known as buyer’s remorse — you’re not alone. Everyone suffers from occasional buyer’s remorse.
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