Happy Friday! I hope you all have fun plans for the weekend or have a great vacation coming up to look forward to. In this week’s edition of Super Useful Travel Posts, I’ve found some interesting posts for you. From riding the rails to a very sleepy plane traveler, I tried to find something useful and interesting for everyone. As always, I hope you enjoy and also share anything, interesting, useful or fun that you found related to travel (in some way) in the comments.
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Ever heard of a travel trust fund? No? Well, then maybe you’d like to learn about them. The new thing
in wills is giving the gift of travel when you pass on. If you’d like to ensure
your children or other beneficiaries get to follow their dreams of traveling
the globe, then this is the perfect way to do it.
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Our favorite budget travel
spokesperson is back! That’s right, William Shatner has returned as the Priceline Negotiator. Due to popular demand from fans, Priceline decided to rehire
Shatner after 7 months and bringing him back from the (supposed) dead. Admit
it. You missed him. And if you haven’t seen his comeback commercial, you can
view it on this link.
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If you’ve been thinking about
going to Europe and debating how to get around between countries, then this
post that gives you 7 tips for touring Europe by train may give you some help in how to do it and
do it better than you expected.
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While I don’t think this would
ever happen again, make sure if you’re truly tired that you set your alarm to
wake you up…or maybe avoid taking any kind of sleeping pill. I have no idea how
this woman slept for a straight 18 hours, but I bet she’s really relaxed now.
After completing a roundtrip flight from Pakistan to Paris and never getting
off, the airline has some explaining to do when it comes to why nobody noticed
this sleeping woman on the plane when she was the only one still on it.
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United has been getting a lot
of grief lately, and they didn’t even “accidentally” miss a sleeping lady on
their plane. On top of all the incoming complaints for various other things,
the airline seems to have misplaced a child traveling alone. This does tend to happen every now and again, but
this is just more bad news heaped onto this not-so-loved airline that simply
didn’t seem to care that they didn’t know where someone’s 10 year old daughter
was. The worst part? The family had to find out from their daughter’s camp that
she never showed up. I feel like this story has two morals: 1.) Don’t fly
United. 2.) Don’t let your children fly alone if they don’t have to. It’s worth
the extra money to know they are safe.
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Travelers are getting fed up
with more airlines than just United though. They are finding more and more
hassles associated with flying and are looking for alternative transportation. The winner in all this is Amtrak. With similarly priced or cheaper tickets, on-time
trains, faster security, new electronic ticketing and readily available WiFi,
passengers just find it more travel-friendly all around.
Often I’ve gone to a foreign
country only to come back and realize I have a bunch of random coins or “dollars”
in my pocket or the bottom of my purse. If this has happened to you and then
you don’t know what to do with it, since exchanging it for your home currency
is going to gain you practically zero, many airlines are now participating in a
UNICEF program called Change For Good that takes your spare change and uses it towards
useful projects around the world like tsunami and earthquake repair.
What are your thoughts on this week's travel postings?
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