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AirTreks Talks Travel With Pauline Frommer
Award-winning travel writer Pauline Frommer, daughter of guidebook pioneer and travel legend Arthur Frommer, does a weekly 2-hour radio show at WOR radio in New York City. We were delighted when on August 22nd she invited AirTreks VP Tom Michelson to chat with her over the phone about around-the-world travel.
Recently Pauline has been interested in how the movie Eat, Pray, Love has impacted long-term travel and around the-world trips in general. It has had an impact, no doubt about it, and with AirTreks leading the way selling these type of tickets, Pauline was especially interested in how we help travelers arrange trips like this.
Listen in on how their conversation went:
AirTreks Interview with Pauline Frommer by AirTreks
The recording above is a short part of that day’s entire program. To hear the show in its entirety or to download podcasts of any of her other Frommer Travel radio shows you can find them all in her archives. Check out all Ms. Frommer’s conversations with travel personalities and experts around the world as well. Or else tune in online – the show airs on Sundays at 10am.
You can also take the first step in starting your own around-the-world adventure. Click the red link below!
It’s safe to say that most people who visit this blog are travelers. Therefore if you’re reading this you probably have a humorous or harrowing story waiting in the wings about your experiences in the world, or else an article 
you feel would make life easier for the traveling public at large.
The AirTreks Travel Blog is accepting guest posts!
Now’s the time to submit your writing. If there’s something in your journal, a set of tips another traveler would love to hear or a story you’ve been itching to tell, share it with us.
This is your opportunity solicit your writing, your travels and your wisdom with the fabulous readers of the AirTreks Travel Blog.
It’s that time of year again – the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photography Conference is this weekend. And this year in addition to its longstanding focus on travel and photography, the organizers have added another entirely more delicious angle to their event: food!
The conference starts Thursday and runs through the weekend at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As usual the conference will be host to an incredible selection of travel (and now food!) writers and photographers with lectures, panels, slideshows, meals and other delightful interactions to help bring people together inside its low-key bookstore setting. Don George, “legendary travel writer and editor” as dubbed by National Geographic, will be there as conference chair and chief moderator, with other notables including Rolf Potts, Pauline Frommer, Jim Benning, Robert Holmes, Tim Cahill, Jen Leo and many others. Take a look at the website for a full rundown of the faculty.
As in years past, AirTreks will again be proud sponsors of the conference and be giving away an around-the-world trip as first prize for the best writing at the event. The award ceremony will be on Sunday night and AirTreks will be on hand to deliver the award.
My experience from last year was very pleasant. I found the quality of the faculty to be outstanding, and the bookstore setting made it different from your average impersonal concrete-style conference.
The fee for attending is $635 for the full four days and comes with meals included and each class as scheduled.
Read more about the conference on Book Passage’s website or take a look at the Huffington Post article about last year’s event. If you’re in the area, please come by. We’d love to see you!
In case you didn’t know, AirTreks has a partner for those in need of land arrangements: Global Basecamps, an environmentally aware, progressive company located in Encinitas, California who’s spent a great deal of time assembling a list of sustainable properties and activities all over the world, from eco-lodges to boutique hotels to small-ship cruising and excursions that will make your mouth water. All things to consider once your flight arrangements have been taken care of with AirTreks.
Global Basecamps has recently initiated a pair of cool promotional tours set up specifically for AirTreks clients. So if you buy an Airtrek you’re instantly entitled to special pricing on a couple of the world’s best adventures.
The summer travel season is upon us. That means a lot of you are madly doing final preparations before you leave, slowly manipulating your life for a later departure or else sunnily daydreaming about of trip of your own somewhere down the line.
Whatever your personal situation you’re still turning to the blogs for information. Here’s what your contemporaries were reading on the AirTreks Travel Blog last month.
Our top 5 most popular posts for the month of June, ding ding!
On the Beaten Path or off it? Mostar, Bosnia. Credit: N Crisafulli
We were in Mostar, Bosnia, certainly not a town you’d say was overrun with tourists. My wife and I were walking toward a historically significant site near the center of town (Mostar was torn apart by the Bosnian War in the early 90s) and I of course was looking around for a photo opportunity, camera in hand. She was carrying a guidebook which was opened to the map page directing us to the site. At that moment a young American traveler walked by us, noticed our not-from-around-here aesthetic and muttered too loudly to his friend, “We gotta get off the beaten path, man.”
It was there, in that well-off-the-beaten-path town of Mostar in the middle of Bosnia, that I came to the conclusion that the whole idea of “the Beaten Path” is one of contention, a hypothetical notion that exists purely in the minds of those not satisfied where they are.
In case you doubted the US Passport Agency could do their jobs with that paltry budget they have hanging over their heads all the time, put those doubts to rest. They’ll soon be getting an influx of cash.
On July 13th the cost for getting a new, renewed or child’s passport, will take a flying leap. The price for a new adult passport will rise from $100 to $135. The price to renew your passport will be $110, up from $75 and for your child (those under 16) you’ll now spend $105.
I officially have World Cup fever. While watching that heart-stopping match this morning between USA and Algeria, I got to thinking. The new stadiums of South Africa are stunning to say the least, massive, modern and worth seeing in person, without a doubt.
So what if I wanted to visit all the World Cup host nations around the world? Because I have a keen propensity to dream, I’ve put together a round-the-world ticket that goes to each host country to visit their beautiful cathedrals to soccer.
After 4 days of an almost surreal standstill of the European airport network, things haven’t gotten much better for travelers there. The ash cloud remains settled over much of northern and central Europe and doesn’t appear to be doing much in the way of dissipating. Twenty countries have now closed their airspace with specialists saying there may not be much in the way of improvement until later this week.
However, there is some good news: the rumors of a second volcano erupting in Iceland are purely that and because the density of the cloud appears to be diminishing, British Airways has announced they could be resuming their flights as early as tomorrow local time, with more European airlines likely to follow their lead.
But because volcanic ash is still dangerous for jet engines and since the passenger backup has spread so deeply into airline operations worldwide no one is completely sure how long the situation will take to resolve itself.
To help our customers in affected destinations around the world, I turned to our in-house insurance specialist Jeffrey Fell to answer some questions travelers may have about protecting themselves and their money during this sticky situation.
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