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On the drive from Key West to Miami Airport in January 2018, I made a detour into Everglades National Park arriving at the Ernest F. Coe entrance from U.S. Route 1 outside Florida City. Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center is the main park center with a physical address of Homestead, Florida. I kept thinking I…
One of the unique competitive advantages of Best Western Hotels became apparent to me during road trips across the United States. A Best Western brand hotel is commonly the closest chain hotel to the entrance of a National Park I was visiting. A Best Western room is usually a far less expensive than staying in…
Frontier Airlines flew me from San Jose to Denver for $98 round trip on days that worked around the BoardingArea mini-BAcon workshop on Google Analytics and SEO. Another tech day in a long series of lessons I have attended over the past decade about how a blog should be organized to make money. Many more…
Icelandair low fares from Denver have sparked a fare war with American, Delta and United to Amsterdam, London and Paris with ticket prices around $500 round trip. Delta and United have deep fare discounts at $382 round trip to Brussels Sep-Dec. Icelandair has ticket prices at $404 to London Jan-March. Travel dates are mid-September to…
A major wildfire is raging through the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the western gateway town to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. More than 14,000 residents have been evacuated from Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in the past 24 hours as fire has damaged and destroyed over 100 structures, including The Park Vista DoubleTree Hotel. I stayed…
This morning I was blessed upon looking out the window of Grand Hotel, Stary Smokovec. The sky was clear blue above the High Tatra peaks for the first time in four days since I arrived in northern Slovakia. Without delay I snapped photos of the two highest peaks in the Carpathian Mountain Range since I…
2016 is the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Each of the past three years I have had the opportunity to visit at least two National Parks on my drive out of Florida road trips. I’d love to make my writing career focused on parks, but that kind of topical writing does not pay…
A post on One Mile at a Time caught my attention this week: Loyalty Programs Work: I’m Overpaying For A Holiday Inn. In this piece Lucky explains why he is paying an extra 36.40 EUR for a 1,000 bonus points offer to complete his IHG Rewards Club Accelerate 2016 offer with only one hotel night…
The National Park Service announced yesterday it will change the names of several Yosemite National Park sites in response to a lawsuit by Delaware North, the outgoing concessionaire for Yosemite National Park hotel lodging since 1993. Delaware North lost its park lodging contract to Aramark, who will take over management of Yosemite National Park lodging…
Summer travels kept me from writing up the the last night of my southeastern states road trip from Orlando, Florida to Knoxville, Tennessee Airport via Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the first week of June 2015. My last night of the road trip was a complimentary night at DoubleTree by Hilton Park Vista Gatlinburg,…
