Travel Web Sites: Which are Best?

It probably is a matter of opinion. Each of us has our own travel personality and you can bet there is a web site out there to match our personality. I enjoy reading The Frugal Traveler series in the New York Times. Here's a good, quick, link-filled blog post with all kinds of travel websites to try on for size.

Have a safe & happy Thanksgiving.

Hungry (not Hungary)

What kind of traveler am I? The kind who selects destinations based on whether great food choices are available. There, I admit it. I'm sitting in my office looking through the brochure for our college's May 2010 tour of Spain and all I can think of is sangria, Serrano ham (and I'm a vegetarian), fresh fish, olives, and other delicious goodies.

Well, if you travel to France or Italy, surely, you're going to check out the food, aren't you? So, I don't think I'm so terrible, sitting here wondering what kind of food will be available in Spain.

If you've traveled to Spain and want to share a "food memory, I hope you will.
Here's the Spain tour brochure

Broadway in April 2010

Parkland College is sponsoring a wonderful long weekend in New York City, April 1-4, 2010. You'll see 2 great Broadway shows ("Billy Elliot" is one of them; a drama, too). Stay at Millennium Broadway Hotel (walking distance to theatres, sights, great restaurants, etc.)

Fly from Chicago O'Hare to New York City. Price is exceptional value. See details here.

10 Great Places to race for a cancer cure

From USA Today: Races sponsored by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure have helped the organization raise more than $1.3 billion to find a cure for breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and several US cities are sponsoring "Race for the Cure."

For the complete article, go here.

Pop Culture Travel

24 pop-culture destinations - chicagotribune.com

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Do you crave Sydney?

When I graduated college, I moved to Australia to teach English (my students wondered if I spoke English, since I sounded so funny to them with my Midwestern twang). Anyway, for a twenty-something like me who had never been away from home, living in Australia was, to put it mildly, an adventure. I lived in Geelong, which is about 40 miles west of Melbourne, right on the coast (again, an adventure for a landlocked Midwesterner). One of the many wonderful aspects about living in Australia and being a teacher there was that it seemed we were always on holiday. Two weeks here, a month there, a long weekend to explore Tasmania or a summer to drive across the Nullabor plain from Melbourne to Perth, all the while listening to cricket matches on the car radio.

Which is a needlessly roundabout way of getting to this new article from the Wall Street Journal about some travel opportunities coming up in October to visit Sydney, Australia. Just knowing that there are roundtrip tickets from Los Angeles to Sydney, starting at $799 is making me crave a Foster's (and it's only 10:15 a.m. as I write this to you).

You will never regret a visit to "the lucky country."

For more information, visit http://www.cravesydney.com/

Travel Detective

Have you heard of Peter Greenberg? He's known as The Travel Detective and has a radio show, books, and is Travel Editor for CBS News. I heard him interviewed on a local talk show and I was impressed by his no-nonsense style and his interesting tips about avoiding travel scams and ways to save money when you travel.

You can check him out here: www.petergreenberg.com