Author: Heather Cassell
How to Survive Traveling this Thanksgiving
It’s the time of the year where we all gather around the hearth and the dining room table to get together with friends and family, which often involves packing your bags and yourself into a car, plane or train.
This coming Wednesday, when the Thanksgiving holiday weekend kicks off, 46.3 million people will travel home (more than 50 miles from their own home) to sit around the family table for turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and other holiday favorites. This is the largest migration home for the holidays since 2007 and a 4.6% increase from 2013, according to AAA.
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Women’s Wanderlust: Women’s Travel Fest 2015
A whole new generation of women is carrying a different kind of baggage than their mothers and it doesn’t always involve kids and a husband.
The women attending the second annual Women’s Travel Fest being hosted in San Francisco in 2015 will be carrying backpacks and wheeling well-worn suitcases battered from crossing boarders and continents around the world.
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Girls That Roam Sponsors the Women’s Travel Festival 2015
Girls That Roam is proud to sponsor the second-annual Women’s Travel Fest 2015.
Women travelers will flock to San Francisco to attend the Women’s Travel Fest February 27 – March 1 to listen to other women travelers, such as Felicity Aston, Laura Ling, and Patricia Schultz, tell their stories of adventure and pushing their personal boundaries.
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Thanksgiving Opening for New ‘BART to OAK’ International Airport Connection
San Francisco Bay Area travelers will have a reason to rejoice and give thanks as the Bay Area Rapid Transit is set to open its latest airport connection to Oakland International Airport.
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It’s Game On with Tennis Pro Lindsay Davenport at the Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp
Three-time grand slam singles champion and former World #1 ranked Lindsay Davenport celebrates five years teaching fans how to hit the tennis ball like a pro at the eight annual Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp.
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Bringing Down the Berlin Wall 25 Years Later
Berlin is going to be filled with festivities throughout this weekend as the Grey City celebrates 25 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War.
Berliners will celebrate the historic anniversary by releasing illuminated balloons outlining where the Berlin Wall once stood while the on Sunday, November 9.
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Katrina Leung to Lead Expansion of ITB Asia
Taking the helm of ITB Asia as the travel shows newly appointed executive director Katrina Leung will be responsible for continuing the organization’s growth within Asia and strengthen the travel show’s position as a key platform for the Asian travel market as the organization’s new leader.
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A Taste of Terror: Surviving Zombies, Roller Coasters, and Really Long Lines at Universal Orlando Halloween Horror Nights
New Yorkers are famous for never actually visiting the statue of Liberty. San Franciscans would rather die, or worse, move to the Midwest than be seen at Alcatraz. But Orlandoans? They know they’ve got it good, and it’s not at all unusual to find them at the theme parks.
One time and place you’re sure to see a lot of in-the-know locals is at the wildly popular Universal Orlando Halloween Horror Nights (HalloweenHorrorNights.com/Orlando/Index.Html), which takes place every year between mid-September and early November.
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Motel 6 Goes Mobile En Espanol
Spanish speaking budget travelers rejoice! Motel 6 will “Dejaremos la luz encendida para ti (We’ll leave the light on for you),” as of October 30.
Motel 6 broadened its horizons with the launch of its first Spanish language mobile web experience. A desktop-friendly website is anticipated to be launched by the end of 2014, says Lance Miceli, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Motel 6.
Grape Expectations at the Big Gay Grape Stomp in Napa
Remember that episode of I Love Lucy where our favorite redhead tries her hand—well, feet—at grape stomping? Lucy is at first perplexed and disgusted, then she begins to enjoy herself, and then hilarity ensues.
It’s a classic bit from what seems like a completely bygone black-and-white era, but here I am reliving much of it, including the barefoot stomping and hijinks, in fabulous living color at the annual Great Gay Grape Stomp, hosted this year at Peju Vineyard (8466 St. Helena Highway; 800-446-7358; Peju.com) in Rutherford, California.
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Girls That Roam Celebrates with The Dinah 25 as a Preferred Media Sponsor
The Dinah celebrates 25 years as the preeminent women’s party, April 1 – 5, 2015. The Dinah is a five-day international world-class event packed with non-stop activities, a series of phenomenal pool parties, spectacular night entertainment, live concerts by Top Ten Billboard recording artists, comedy shows, sport-games and social networking opportunities.
For 25 years it has been the premier all-girl event hosted in Palm Springs, Calif. coinciding with the Ladies Professional Gold Association’s Kraft Nabisco Championship Golf Tournament (formerly the Dinah Shore Golf Championship). The lesbian spring break, as it is known, was created and is produced by Mariah Hanson under the Club Skirts marquee. http://thedinah.com.
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Kinky Boots Is Fabulous!
A man kept walking past me and staring at me while I was eating dinner at a restaurant recently. Super G had left the table for a moment. In my head, I was asking myself, “Is there something wrong with me? Is he looking at me because I’m with a girl who looks somewhat masculine? Is he looking at me because I’m with a woman of color? Why is he looking at me?”
On the third pass-by the man finally stopped and asked me, “What is on your shirt?”
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