Do I need a passport? Here is the latest update.

Here is the latest update about passport requirements from Chicago Tribune travel columnist Alfred Borcover.

link to travel insider all inclusive vacations.com

Las Vegas for $250.00 A Day or $1,000.00 Per Day...The New York Times Adds Its Two Cents

From Sunday's March 19, 2006 two articles about doing Vegas with two budgets. Interesting that both authors, apparently without consultation with each other, chose to visit a range offering the chance to shoot a "real machine gun." Go figure. All the entertainment choices available, and these New Yorkers choose to spend part of their Las Vegas day shooting paper Osama targets. Other articles archived from as far back as 2002.

Excess Baggage BBC-Radio 4 Link

One of life's little pleasures is the BBC internet site with its overwhelming choices of on demand progammes now available to download .

If you are unfamliar with BBC 4 here is the wikipedia link with a good overview of the flagship BBC station:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_4

One of our favorite programs is the travel show Excess Baggage presented by Sandi Toksvig. The past highlights available to listen include an inteview with our travel hero Michael Palin, tips on traveling to Venice, the Middle East, Krakow, Hiroshima, India, travel to war zones, hidden Spain and even a preview of space travel.

The London Sunday Times explains how to be a luxury cheapskate

Get more than you paid for with Jeremy Lazell's seven rules of blagging, bartering and begging for high-end travel at bargain prices.

Pay less. Travel better. Lazell explains how to travel for less.

Rick Steves says he is not anti-travel agent.

You need a travel agent. Rick Steves, the European do it yourself independent travel host, writer and producer of the popular PBS television series Rick Steves' Europe, and best-selling author of 30 European travel books has become an advocate of using travel agents. He especially encourages purchasing airfare through travel agents. He writes:

"You can't save money by buying directly from the airlines."

"Travel agents save you money."

The low-rollers Las Vegas

Or how I made $75.00 from nothing but coupons and casino cards. This article from the Dallas Morning News warms our heart. Low stake gambling. Coupon promotions. Getting off the strip for better deals. It is a lesson in doing Las Vegas 101. Free registration...rather annoying is required to read the story.

Are cheap Las Vegas strip hotel rooms a thing of the past?

The Las Vegas Review journal speculates about the strip's future based upon the recent closing or about to be closed 5,000 lower-cost hotel rooms. Fewer bargain rooms means fewer bargain travelers. Is this good or bad for the strip's future?