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We are giving away RTW tickets, cash, other airline tickets, clothing, plus tours, car rentals and a tour in Asia. Here's how to enter.... You can also win $2000 in airfare and R/T tickets on Southwest Airlines. You can enter eight times in eight weeks, and win other prizes weekly just by correctly guessing the route of the RTW trip.
This month we get ready to plan summer trips with lots of new travel articles by some new writers and some more familiar names. We continue to publish new articles every day and hope that you enjoy them as much as we do.
THE ITALY PLANE READER IS HERE!
We are excited about our first ebook that contains more than 30 articles about Italy, in a portable format that's readable on a Kindle, an iPhone, iPad, Droid or a Nook. We envision that this product would be great if you're traveling to a place like Italy and want to have a lot of articles to read to get familiar. Please check it out on Amazon and if you like it, buy it! We'd love to read your reviews on Amazon if you're so inclined.
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Stories published in April 2011, on GoNOMAD:
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Hopping Freight Trains and Living the Life of a Hobo
I met a man outside of our cafe in South Deerfield named Rapid T. He was unshaven and carrying a box of crushed Miller Lite cans. He had a bicycle with a pair of boots dangling over the handlebars. He told me that he was called a Rail Fan, and that he hops freight trains to get around all over the country. read more |
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Bicycle Touring in Europe: How to Choose the Right Tour Operator
There is simply no better way to see a country's rural beauty than from the seat of a bicycle. And with a centuries old tradition of bicycle riding, Europe is one of the best places in the world to take a cycling vacation. But how does someone interested in cycling find the right choice in a tour company to help with the details? Since distance bike riding requires vans to pick you up and luggage transfer, it's clearly mandatory to find an experienced bicycle tour operator to handle these logistics. Read more |
Win a Trip for 2 Around the World!
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We're giving our readers the chance to take off, big time, by putting their travel knowledge to the test and inviting them to enter our contest. The challenge? Guess the route of where the Round the World journey will take them.
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Eating San Sebastian: Three meals, hard cider and a whole lot of Tapas
I have been invited by my Basque friend Jakoba to his family’s annual dinner at his home in San Sebastian. He keeps pigs and oxen and horses. He has an organic vegetable garden, apple trees, and the first part of our day will be spent working in his small vineyard. Gradually the family arrives with offerings for the meal and the legendary Basque culinary skills come into action. Read more |
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Watch Hill, Rhode Island's Ocean House: Overlooking the water and perfectly restored
Watch Hill is best known as a seasonal ocean resort village. Its pristine beaches and idyllic harbor is set on Napatree Point, a peninsula jutting into Block Island Sound--the most westerly tip of the tiny state of Rhode Island. To the north the Pawcatuck River flows into Little Narragansett Bay, creating an estuary and
haven for wildlife, which in turn flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Read more
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Yangshuo China: Water Buffalo and Scooters
The Li River is arguably one of the most picturesque vistas throughout all of China. Over a week of traveling brought us from Beijing to Xi’an, south to Shanghai and finally to the Li River.
Arriving around 2 in the afternoon at the Guilin Airport and only having a little under 2 days in the region, our cruise options were a bit limited. As we descended onto the winding river course we were beset by diminutive women hawking overpriced trinkets. Read more |
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The Top Three Hikes in San Francisco--that you can get to by public transport
From city streets to dirt trails, you don’t need to leave the the city of San Francisco to get some exercise or solitude. And you definitely don’t need a car. Armed with a $2 bus ticket and some good walking shoes, the following three hikes offer inexpensive and meaningful ways to see the country’s most charmingly good-looking city. Read more |
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London on the Very Cheap Museums and other free attractions make an affordable holiday
Finding myself stuck in London for six unexpected days due to the inconvenient activity of an unpronounceable Icelandic volcano my first thought was ‘what a great place to get stuck.’ My second thought, however, was ‘this is going be expensive.’ Surprisingly, that was not the case.
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The Boston Boy Visits Dublin: "Wicked Brilliant!"
It's always a thrill for a Boston boy to visit Ireland, but to visit Dublin on St. Patrick's Day, and to ride with the other international reporters in a bus at the head of the parade... to hear Seamus Heaney and 30 other great Irish writers read their work at the new convention center... and to attend The Commitments' 20-year anniversary concert in their hometown... this was truly the trip of a lifetime. Read More |
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San Diego’s Busker Festival: One-Of-A-Kind Entertainment
“My kids love the wacky characters that do strange things like fit their bodies through a toilet seat, swallow flaming swords or perform backflips on a pogo stick,” says Busker Festival attendee, Jon Bailey. The Seaport Village’s Spring Busker Festival that takes place in San Diego, California every year is a one-of-a-kind two-day festival full of eccentric entertainment, and innovative street performers. Read more |
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Peer into the Past: A Whirlwind Tour of Prague
If your time in the Czech Republic is limited, here are the top historic attractions you won’t want to miss. Start your day early, put on your favorite walking shoes and let Prague’s past surround you.My husband and I had a little help wandering the streets of Prague. We toured with my son and his wife who live in Germany and had spent a weekend in Prague three weeks earlier. They knew exactly where to go. Read More |
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Viewing Sandhill Cranes in Kearney, Nebraska
Six weeks of the year, Kearney, Nebraska, population 31,000, achieves world class. A half-million sandhill cranes fly in from February to April to feed, fatten and frenzy along the Platte River on their way to far northern nesting grounds. Some years, Jane Goodall flies in herself. This year, it was Audubon Society President David Yarnold to keynote a national celebration of rivers and wildlife.
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Getting Screeched in Bonavista, Newfoundland
The only way to become an honorary member of Newfoundland is to get ‘screeched’. Even if being an honorary member isn’t your thing, this is a great opportunity to meet, hang out, and have a lot of fun with the local Newfies. Attend a ‘screech-in’ at any one of the handful of bars that perform the ceremony and you’ll go home not only with a membership certificate, but with fond memories of the time you willingly played the fool in public. Read More |
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To the Five Boroughs: A New York City Beastie Boys Tour
It is late fall in the city, most people are wearing black jackets. Some have a pair of thin white wires running to their ears like me, some have their eyes closed. But for me, there’s no sleep ‘till Brooklyn. Upon arrival at Jay Station. I follow the crowd up the stairs, and orient myself on the sidewalk. There’s a certain castle in Brooklyn, that’s where I’ll dwell. Read More |
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Walk On, Fido: A Guide to Dog-Friendly Portland, Oregon
“Walk” is a four-letter word in my household. My family and I spell it out, say it in Spanish, and do whatever it takes to avoid its usage in the presence of our dog. If we do happen to utter the fateful word, our energetic poodle, Ozzie, will be sure to follow us around the house relentlessly until we grudgingly leash up and take him outside. Read More |
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Getting High on Skis in Piemonte, Italy
Panic, anxiety and extreme fear hit me like a runaway Vespa. After not having skied for over a decade, I had impulsively decided to go skiing in the Italian Alps… the very slopes that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics in the Piemonte region of Italy. Read More |
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