February 5, 2007
Travel news for Superbowl Sunday
I have a few travel articles for you. First there's one on getting ready for vacation with reminders like planning your trip and pet sitters in advance, trying new stuff, etc.
One story that bothers me is that of the Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground and leaked oil in Antarctica. As far as I can tell, Norwegian Coastal Voyage is doing nothing to clean up their mess. They are tracking the situation. I hope this raises their insurance premiums enough to punish them.
Study abroad programs can be kind of like vacations depending on what classes are involved, but they are always travel experiences. Here's a domestic study travel experience. Do it in Colorado and do a lot of skiing, do it in Miami and watch basketball, do it in San Francisco and go to an S&M festival, do it in Malibu and go surfing.
I'm not sure why, but not all parents paying their kids way through college are convinced:
With college costs already steep, Carol Powers of Pembroke, Mass., wasn't thrilled when her son Tom passed over a business-management program in Australia for a pricier option in Los Angeles that required her to take out a $6,000 loan. "It seemed ridiculous. He needs a rental car so he can live with beautiful people?" says Ms. Powers, a 59-year-old social worker who fears he will be seduced by the money and "blonde, tan, perfect bodies" of L.A. "I think it's so superficial. In Australia he would have learned about a lot of different cultures."Who thinks that Tom's mother did the right thing by taking out a $6,000 loan for her son's LA learning experience? Who thinks that Tom's mother should not have paid for this LA "study away" experience? Posted by James Trotta at February 5, 2007 8:50 AM | TrackBackTom, a business-management major from Boston University, is taking classes in entertainment law and management, but has spent much of the past month cruising with his friends along Sunset Boulevard and looking for an internship. He says here, too, there are cultural differences: He doesn't have to wear a tie for interviews, and unlike Boston, where "you are what you do, in L.A., you are what you drive."
