Archive for February, 2007

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Update on the Server Transfer

Well it took a little longer than expected to transfer over the domain names to my new hosting service so I have not yet made the big move. I will, however, be doing that this weekend so if the site disappears for a bit or is a bit of a mess, that’s why.

Please bear with me as I make the transition.

The most immediate thing you will notice is the address bar will now say www.atravelogue.com/… instead of comcast or .mac.

If you have those pages bookmarked, I will ask you to redirect them to there new addresses. I will try and put up a forwarding page where the old pages used to be.

Thank you for your patience.

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An Important Announcment

I’m fed up with Yahoo and their constant email outages so this weekend I will be transferring all my websites to a new server. If you check in here and things are wonky our just not there please be patient as it will take a little time to get everything back up and running and all the links pointed in the right place.

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The Strange Economics Of Rental Cars

There comes a time when you find yourself at the whims of the strange and convoluted rules of the travel industry, in which logic not only doesn’t apply, but has in fact been taken round the back and beaten into the shape of white is black, up is down and frogs are allergic to the color green. And so the round shape of your trip must conform to fit the star shaped hole provided.

Our original itinerary had us renting a car for four days, but as it turns out, it’s the same price, or cheaper, to rent a car for a week. And so things are set in motion, plans are altered and new schemes are worked out to accommodate this new information.

On the whole, this isn’t entirely a bad thing. Now instead of spending two nights in Avignon and one night in Arles, I think we will be either spending all three nights in Avignon (because there is a definite advantage to camping out in one place and day tripping from there) or one night in Avignon and two nights in Arles (because I’ve read that Arles is more friendly for cars). Right now I’m leaning towards staying put in one place. But that could change.

The other change will be driving from the Luberon to Nice instead of taking a train, which will allow us to stop along the way if we desire and frees up all kinds of time schedule wise.

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Site Maintenance

I’ve taken the map off the blog and moved it to it’s own page where I’ve also added a map that traces the route we will be taking on our trip.

I will also soon be adding a general travel resource page to go along with the place specific ones.

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Further Love For Audio Tours

I don’t know why I love audio tours so much, but I do. I’ve written about them extensively in the past and will continue to hunt them down for whatever upcoming trips we might have.

Today, while browsing around on Audible I came across various audio tours of sites on the Yucatan Peninsula put together by a company called TekTrek. I’m glad I found them through Audible first and not just by stumbling across their web site, because if that had been the case I never would have been able to figure out where to get them as there is nothing on their site even indicating that they are for sale. Now I don’t want to tell them how to run their business, but it’s an oversight they may want to correct.

Anyway, when I start to research our Mexico trip, I will have a better idea which tours are for us, but I’m sure we’ll try out a couple of them if they fit into our itinerary.

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