Tips & Reviews
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning / Travel Tips
How to Clear US Customs Faster
Our Travel Tip this month comes from longtime customer and frequent traveler, Dave Forester. Here’s what Dave suggests to save time clearing US Customs. Enroll in the U.S. Customs & Border Protection’s “Global Entry” system, known as “GOES”. This allows… Read full article
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Daily Bicycle Maintenance: Paying Attention to Your Bike
Daily Bicycle Maintenance: Paying Attention to Your Bike by Rich Young, ExperiencePlus! Tech Guy One of the best things about bikes is their elegant simplicity. But when it comes to keeping your bike running smoothly, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Ten Days in a Carry-On
ExperiencePlus! continues our Travel Tip series with a recent article from the New York Times that literally shows you how to pack for “10 Days in a Carry-On” published May 6th, 2010. You’ll be astonished as flight attendant , Heather… Read full article
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Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride
Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride, by Peter Zheutlin Peter Zheutlin, Annie Londonderry’s great-great nephew, has written a masterful homage to his great-great aunt, while recounting the extraordinary “ride” of a remarkable woman. Annie Cohen was… Read full article
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Race Book Reviews
Race Book Reviews We hope you’ll be able to join us in France next summer for the 101st anniversary of The Race. If you are able to come, then the selection of readings in my review this month will help… Read full article
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Imagining History: Imagining Argentina & Chile
Imagining History: Imagining Argentina & Chile This list of three movies and one just-published novel that are about as good a starter set as you could find for Chile and Argentina. The Mission (1986) by Roland Joffe; Evita (1996)… Read full article
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Trekking with Trekking Poles
Trekking with Trekking Poles by Julie Horton, Customer Service Specialist, ExperiencePlus! Specialty Tours, Inc. There are many excuses for not using trekking poles: "I’m too young to need them," "I’m too balanced to fall," "I’m too ‘non-techy’ to accept them,"… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
How To Find Good Airfare
Finding the Best Airfares for your Bicycle Tours The great news for travelers is that airfares to Europe are expected to continue their decline into spring so we thought it was the perfect time to review what we know about… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Learning to See
Learning to See Whether pedaling through the countryside on a bicycle or walking a trail in a natural area, you can enrich your experience by practicing these simple principles: Take frequent breaks to observe your surroundings. I mean,… Read full article
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“Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to “find America” in a small, custom-made camper-truck that contained nearly all the comforts of home, including his faithful full-sized poodle, Charley. He meandered along nearly the entire perimeter of the… Read full article
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Moderata Fonte: Women and Life in Sixteenth-Century …
Moderata Fonte: Women and Life in Sixteenth-Century Venice Many of you have heard about my research project about a Venetian writer of the Renaissance and life in Venice at that time. Many of you very kindly wanted to know about… Read full article
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Book Review: The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Book Review: The Places in Between by Rory Stewart Originally published in London by Picador, 2004 US Paperback edition Harcourt, Inc., 2006 by Rory Stewart About walking through remote regions of planet earth . . . (Note: ExperiencePlus! is not… Read full article
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Around Africa On My Bicycle by Riaan Manser
Monica Malpezzi Price Reviews Although there are many of us who are passionate about bicycling and bicycle touring, I don’t know of anyone that considers bicycle touring a life or death situation….. but Riaan Manser has! When this South African… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends Vacation travel with family or friends appeals to our sense of balance between quality time with those we care about while pursuing our personal interests. For those who find that active travel is their… Read full article
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Tips & Reviews / Travel Planning
French Rail Map
French Rail Map While researching transportation options for a customer trying to get from Paris to Molsheim, I discovered a great map of the French rail system. Using the different colors as indications of separate lines, I was able to… Read full article
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The Motorcycle Diaries
The Motorcycle Diaries A Photo Essay & Movie Review I’ve taken only three trips to South America: once to Peru, once to Chile, and once to Argentina and Chile to do our ExpeditionPlus! bicycle tour across the continent. As I… Read full article
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A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica/Naturalists Guide to Costa Rica
A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica/Naturalists Guide to Costa Rica A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by F. Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Skutch, illustrated by Dana Gardner (Comstock Publishing Associates, a Divison of Cornell University… Read full article
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The Delights of Delicate Eating by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
The Delights of Delicate Eating by Elizabeth Robins Pennell It’s not likely that you’ve heard of Elizabeth Robins Pennell or that you associate her with Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher or Elizabeth David. But just as these three women – two… Read full article