Eight Great Travel Twitter Tweets for August
What makes a good travel tweet? Here are eight favorites from the past month.
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- Mr. Suitcase
- Tom Swick: On the trauma of luggage gone astray (and how an inconvenience turned into an obsession)
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- World Travel Watch: Plague in Bolivia and Peru, Warnings in Northern Ireland and More
- World Travel Watch: Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
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- Googling Romeo
- Travel Stories: Claire Bushey couldn't stop thinking about the handsome actor she met on a trip to England. Then she did something she'll always regret.
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- Nine Great Stories About New Orleans
- Lists: To mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we've collected stories from our archives that explore the city's heartbreak, passion and rebirth
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- Missing Paris
- Travel Stories: Nancy Kline grieves for a city that no longer belongs to her
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- World Hum Travel Movie Club: ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
- Speaker's Corner: A big-screen incarnation of author Elizabeth Gilbert heads to Italy, India and Indonesia. Eva Holland and Eli Ellison go along for the ride.
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- One Man’s Odyssey into ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
- Travel Books: Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling trans-global travel book is a fun read -- but don't expect Rolf Potts to embrace the fantasy
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- The Shrink-Wrapped Traveler
- Eric Weiner: Welcome to the Buddha Zen hotel, where the options are few and the travelers are happy
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- Victory at the Louvre
- Travel Stories: Erin Byrne never let her mask slip, until a headless, armless Greek statue taught her a lesson she couldn't ignore
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- Ode to the Summer Vacation
- Travel Stories: The sun. The sand. The improvised Taco Bell sing-alongs. Terry Ward revels in the power of her family's long ago trips to the Outer Banks.
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- Square Grouper on the Cocaine Coast
- Travel Stories: When Jill K. Robinson found her perfect beachfront property off Honduras, she didn't realize she'd just bought into a slice of the drug trade
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- Paradise, Backstage
- Travel Stories: What happens when a guy who buys luggage at Target finds himself in a $16,000-a-night villa in the Maldives? Andrew Evans reports from the lap of luxury.
From the Archives: Four Confessions
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Confessions of an Introverted Traveler
Speaker's Corner: Sophia Dembling has a different style of traveling, and she's tired of hiding it
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Confessions of a Chicken Man
Travel Stories: Doug Mack knows what you think of him when he orders the blandest thing on a foreign menu. He's okay with that.
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Confessions of a Born-Again Cowboy in France
Speaker's Corner: At home in the United States, Peter Wortsman is more Woody Allen than John Wayne. But not in France.
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Confessions of a Cross-Border Shopper
Speaker's Corner: Eva Holland took advantage of the strong Canadian dollar to cross the border and shop in New York.
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