Posted March 31st, 2010 at 7:44 pm in Low Carb
When I was a kid I used to watch in awe as my Dad chowed down on a sandwich he made with liverwurst or other deli items (usually a Dagwood size, if you recall what that was and if you are too young to know about a Dagwood sandwich, well, just think huge). He would rub his hands together in anticipation, open his mouth as wide as he could, and take these monster bites, rolling his eyes and moaning with pleasure. He didn't restrict his great white bites to just sandwiches either, just about anything he consumed was done in a manner that suggested it might be his last meal.
Of course, when my mouth could handle it I too started eating like my Dad, I didn't just pick up this eating style during my stint in the Marine Corps, although I ate fast because I either had to or was in a hurry to get somewhere. The marines will tell you "eat all you want, but eat all you take". Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted March 26th, 2010 at 5:14 pm in Low Carb
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Posted March 11th, 2010 at 6:43 am in Cruise Vacations
If you like to cruise, it doesn't get any better than Crystal and for the 13th consecutive year Crystal Cruise Lines has been named "World's Best Large Cruise Line" by readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine & Condé Nast.
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Posted December 31st, 2009 at 3:33 pm in Travel Insider
Hotels Need to Adjust Their Thinking
They say that timing is everything and for once I guessed right, 2009 was a good year to leave an insane business in a big city and start a new Internet Marketing consulting business, moving the family, lock, stock and dog to a small town. I can safely say I am glad to be gone from the likes of Wyndham, Hilton Hotel Corp. in Scottsdale, and working in the hotel business in general. Not that there is anything wrong with those particular brands, they are all equally screwed up!
I don't know about the rest of the country's resort destinations but I do know the Scottsdale market and they are down considerably over 2008. According to the Arizona Republic's December 25th article Travel slump hurts Scottsdale hotels Scottsdale's hospitality industry continued to struggle in October with a 23 percent decline in revenue per available room from a year ago, according to Smith Travel Research.
Ouch! This means that hoteliers (us poor sales slobs) filled only 61.4 percent of their rooms, not a good number and not good news for hotel management companies who have to answer to investors . On top of that bad news they posted a miserable $136.79. average room rate, down over 21%!
Revenue per available room, which combines occupancy and average room rate, was $83.97. Basically what this all means is that in spite of a horrible travel slump, of the kind never seen before, the bull-whips come out and sales has to come through. I wish them all the luck in the world, I did it for 25 years and I am done!
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Posted December 5th, 2009 at 12:25 pm in Vacation WOPS
Is there such a thing we wondered? Check out these 15 trips we found in an article in Travel+Leisure (Nov 09) that, according to them, have the potential to "transform travelers and destinations alike."
Take a look at a few of these volunteer and odyssey adventures and see if any of them could change your life. Then vote in our poll as to which vacation you think might cause you to see the world in a whole new way. life-changing vacations
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