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Amtrak Wifi Even Worse Than I Thought

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Amtrak Wifi is pretty horrific.  In fact, I usually switch to tethering off my iPad’s 4G rather than use it because I’ve found it pretty slow. I guess I’ve gotten so used to switching to 4G that I haven’t realized just how slow it can get. I loved that Amtrak had …

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Foursquare to Bring Back Gamification to Platform

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Foursquare’s Swarm was the greatest thing to happen to Yelp. Foursquare was an app that would track where you were going via check-ins, let you create lists of places you would like to go to, and see where your friends have been. It would unlock badges, including my infamous “Mile …

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Hello, World!

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Well, it looks like the blog has launched, so hello everyone! The official launch is going to be Thursday, so please keep an eye out for giveaways and other things. (Me on the left) If you’d like to keep apprised of things on the blog: Subscribe Follow @Le_ChicGeek Follow @Jeanne23 Subscribe …

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Great, Easy Read on the Go

One of my favorite blogs, My Not So Humble Opinion, or [MNSHO] for short, hasn’t been posting for a while. It turns out this is because the author was working on a book. It has nothing to do with travel, but it is light-hearted, funny and, at times, has great …

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Re-Introducing Tiff!

You may have noticed that Tiff has been posting much more often than she has in the past.  We’ve “promoted” her from guest blogger to Contributing Writer. I figured it was worth introducing her again.  After all, her kids are older than when we last did that!  Tiff is a …

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Fares to Europe from West Coast at ~$465

The Flight Deal has an amazing deal up tonight.  Travel to Europe from the West Coast for less than $465. I love the team at the Flight Deal and I make sure I get all of their deals by text. As a reminder of how to do this: This process involves signing …

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