Dear Madame Secretary The State Department that you head is the responsible body for issuing visitor visas to people who wish to travel to our great country as tourists, and so I am writing to […]
An Open Letter to Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State (please pass on) Read More »
From time to time one reads of someone who returns home from international travels to find a multi-thousand dollar cell phone bill awaiting them (the largest I’ve found mention of was for C$85,000). These charges
Warning – Cellphone data usage internationally can cost you thousands of dollars Read More »
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So there you are, sitting quietly in your seat on a flight, doing nothing wrong – indeed, doing nothing at all except counting down the hours and minutes until your flight from Denver arrives in
Guilt by Association (Actually Non-Association with other Non-Guilty Passengers) Read More »
Good morning Welcome back from wherever you may have traveled to over the long weekend. Oh – you’re probably wondering what this squalid picture depicts. Sorry, you’ll have to read all the way down
Now that you’ve decided which places you’d like to visit in Australia, the next issue becomes in what order to travel to these different places. This is something that is seldom much of an issue
Our country’s faltering attempts at creating any type of high speed rail service continue to go nowhere. The initial poster child of President Obama’s January 2010 high speed rail program was to be a
The fourth part of my series on places to see in Australia is now available. There is a paradox in this latest article. On the one hand, it purports to list destinations that occupy
More Places to See in Australia – And a Couple to Miss Read More »
Good morning Very quickly to start, I’ve a final extension on the special lifetime memberships that make our upcoming Front Sight defensive handgun course so affordable. You’ll need to contact me prior to the
Australia is a huge country, and with a similarly huge variety of places to go and things to see when visiting as a tourist (pictured left is the wonderful Skyrail attraction in the Cairns
It is true that the average Chinese citizen still earns a very low (but steadily increasing) wage (about $250/month). But the average Chinese tourist is not the same as the average Chinese citizen. Chinese
The US Continues to Refuse to Accept Money and Tourism Business from Wealthy Foreigners Read More »
If you’ve ever wondered how it is that our government is staggering under a multi-trillion dollar shortfall as between what it brings in and what it spends, look no further than today’s announcement, triumphantly
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