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Tripit.com helps travelers stay organized and informed
Tripit.com is more than just a travel website. The site is focused around organizing travel plans, providing information about destinations, and sharing information with other fellow travelers. Geared more toward the business traveler the site allows the user to forward travel itineraries that have been booked via corporate travel offices. The site is user friendly [...]
Best Buy & Circiut City (The City) OK with haggling
Is the art of haggling back again? Many retailers are trying to help address ease the economic concerns by unofficial allowing their sales personnel to allow haggling. The New York Times reported that many of the old used car tricks may work with these mega-stores in hopes of you trying to secure a better deal.
Using [...]
Latest Apple ads provide some interesting informative entertainment
For those of us who have enjoyed the Apple - PC commercials, well guess what? Another new Apple commercial is on the airwaves, or is that webwaves? Anyway, Apple just helps to promote more about Vista. OK, well it is not the best promotion for Microsoft, but they do enough of that themselves. After all they got [...]
The perfect car for Brad
So my son Brad has started to talk about driving. His mom actually lost a Super Bowl bet that will require Brad’s mom to take him out and teach him how to drive. OK, one lesson we are starting to approach this slowly. As we begin to think our 6′ 6″ giant driving soon, I have been [...]
Cluj nightlife.. Continued 2
It is amazing to see the wildlife that you find in these caves. I mean these creatures just come out of the woods at night and go crazy. Like this malicious creature we found hiding behind the bar. He would only come out when thirsty. We tried to offer this creature food, but it would [...]
Cluj nightlife.. Continued
In my last post I showed you an alley that was actually lit more than many of the other alleys we have walked down. It is interesting where McClain finds these spots. I also find it amazing that McClain is remembered from his last trip here. Is that a good thing.
So Steve, Manish [...]
Cluj nightlife.. Day 1
Steve, Manish and I decided to hit the town and see what was out there.. It is amazing to see what you can find. The one point that surprises me is that you look at some of the buildings and alleyways and really do not see anything that could be even considered inhabitable. Then you move [...]
Houston, we have landed in Cluj, Romania
Well we are finally here. After going through about 4 or 5 time zones we have made it. We are all very tired but we did make it.
In fact, we got to fly in this great Turbo prop airplne. Poor Pat, Caroline, and Annette had to take a later flight that was delayed a few [...]
Rod’s heading to Romania
Well, it is the day before I will be heading out to Romania. My schedule is crazy. Here it is:
San Francisco, CA. (8:00 AM) to JFK, NY. (4:20 PM)
JFK, NY (6:15PM to London Heathrow, U.K. (6:25 AM)
London Heathrow, U.K. (8:30 AM) to Budapest, Hungry (11:55 AM)
Budapest, Hungry (1:40 PM) to Cluj, Romania (3:40 PM)
It will be [...]