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Travel Tips: Why You Need Travel Insurance

Travel Tips: Why You Need Travel Insurance

Coronavirus, political turmoil, blizzards and snowstorms that shut down airports in winter, hurricanes that shut down airports in summer and fall, computer outages that ground flights, or an injury or family emergency that prevents you from taking the trip you paid for. These are just some of the reasons to have travel insurance.  There are
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10 Ways to Stretch Your Travel Dollars

10 Ways to Stretch Your Travel Dollars

Since you might not have traveled in a while, consider this a quick refresher course for how to stretch your travel dollars before, during and after a trip, whether you are going solo or with the entire family.

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Coronavirus Travel Tips

Coronavirus Travel Tips

Is it safe to travel now? Coronavirus is changing all our travel plans. Whether or not you should take a planned trip depends on many things, including your destination, your own age and health, your family members, and also the people you will be traveling with. If you choose to cancel or postpone your trip,
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Travel Tips: Check Your Document Expiration Dates

Travel Tips: Check Your Document Expiration Dates

Don’t get turned away at the airport, turned down for a visa or bucket list trip, or denied re-imbursement for missed connections or lost or delayed baggage. With the peak holiday travel season on the horizon, now is the time to check your US Passport, Global Entry and TSA Trusted Traveler registrations, and your annual
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What You Need to Know to Cancel a Trip to Dominican Republic

What You Need to Know to Cancel a Trip to Dominican Republic

The headlines about Americans dying under mysterious circumstances while on vacation in the Dominican Republic is prompting many cancellations of scheduled trips. Tourism is down by more than 70% since the deaths became front page news. Here’s what you need to know if you have reservations for an upcoming getaway to the DR, whether you’ve
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What New Travel Restrictions to Cuba Mean

What New Travel Restrictions to Cuba Mean

Cuba is a fabulous “bucket list” destination, with those memorable vintage cars, historic architecture, music and dancing everywhere, including in the streets, interesting art and history museums, including the home of Hemingway, and friendly people hungry for contact with Americans. I’ve been to Cuba twice in the last six years, and ready to return to
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How To Avoid Flying on a Boeing 737 Max 8

How To Avoid Flying on a Boeing 737 Max 8

The second deadly crash of a new Boeing 737 Max 8 in less than six months has prompted more than two dozen airlines to ground them, and Canada, Mexico and countries in Europe and the Mideast to deny them air space to fly over. Here’s what you need to know if you want to avoid
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How to Breeze Through Customs & Immigration

How to Breeze Through Customs & Immigration

Travel tips. Customs and immigration lines are inevitable, whether you are arriving in your bucket list destination or returning home from it. After all, every time a plane full of people arrives, it takes a while to process all that luggage and the passengers aboard. Still, there’s a lot you can do to speed your
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Travel to the Gulf Now Despite the Oil Spill

Despite the BP oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in US history, most beaches along the Gulf of Mexico remain open and ready for visitors.  One of the best ways you can help resort communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and  Florida is to travel there and spend your money in the local, family-owned  restaurants, boutiques,
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