
I use only ONE at the moment. It serves as a debit card as well so I get the best of both worlds when I am travelling. I don't have to use two or three different cards, which also means NO debt as all the money I use comes directly from my account.
President Obama to Lift Restrictions on Cuba - Political PunchSource: ABC News Blogs
ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report:
At today's daily White House briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs will announce that the administration will lift travel, remittance, mail and business restrictions relating to the Communist nation of Cuba.

After a few days of getting into the swing of things and running about with guides, we managed to hire our taxi driver, Abdullaih, as our guide instead of having a new guides daily. With him we took all kinds of trips in the area around the hotel.

My husband and I got a nice chunk back on our tax return and noticed that we hadn't been travelling a lot since we moved to the US. By now we had been back in Germany, and many more options for travelling were there, so we set about finding a place to go on vacation at.
Where the Hell is MattSource:
Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on.

After a long period of silence and soul searching trying to understand the culture of blogging, I have resolved to break the silence. Fast track. I'm in the airport lounge in Kigali Rwanda waiting to catch flight to Uganda.
The 31 Places to Go This Summer Source: The New York Times
Traveling this summer may sound like a cruel joke: airlines are getting worse, gas prices are creeping toward $5 a gallon and the euro continues to go up, up, up. It's almost enough to make you stay home. Almost.
Thank You, Stranger Source: The Washington Post
Steve Ray tells his story as one of kindness and compassion; A seemingly random happy-stance. :)
Back To The Land Via The Peace CorpsSource: motherearthnews.com
Have you ever considered joining the Peace Corps? Don't rule it out: It just may be the "hands on" introduction to self-sufficient living you've been looking for ... and the fringe benefits are certainly worth thinking about.
Russia: A Guide for the Cautious TravelerSource: La Russophobe
"I don't reproach the Russians for being what they are; what I blame them for is their desire to appear to be what we are. They are much less interested in being civilized than in making us believe them so.
The Many Benefits of All Inclusive Caribbean CruisesSource: qualitylifestyleblog.com
You want to take a cruise in the near future, but have never taken one before. Various family members and friends have taken cruises, but they took just very basic ones to save their money.
Annals of Transport: There and Back AgainSource: New Yorker
Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America's longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred and seventy-two miles—seven hours—a day, from the Sierra foothills to San Jose …
Entrepreneurs with WanderlustSource: Forbes
The next spring, Bohl shelled out for a shiny new 2003 Damon Escaper (base ticket price: $200,000) and decided to put his house up for sale. Dorothy's reaction? "No matter what I suggested, she'd say 'What if it doesn't work?'" says Bohl. "And I said: 'What if it does?'"
Mobile phone roaming fees slashedSource: BBC News
Some of Europe's big phone operators have agreed to reduced mobile phone roaming charges - which is good news for everyone who likes to travel abroad and use their mobiles.
UK issues first biometric passportSource: vnunet.com
The UK has issued it's first biometic passport in line with the internation standards. This is the first in a new line of passports to be used when travelling.
Exploring TurkeySource: Guardian Unlimited
Turkey. Turk-ey. As those two syllables traipse off the tongue, what springs to mind? A fattened bird on the Christmas table, or an adjective that means duff, dud, no good? Not me. I think of Turkey the country; beautiful, unexpected and largely unexplored.