Aug 5th, 2009 at 4:00PM: digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Vermont_Taxi_Driver_Offers_Pay_What_You_Want_Fares'; Websites like eBay and Priceline let consumers pay what they want for everything from designer gowns to airline tickets. Now, if you live in Essex, Vermont, you can exercise that same financial control when it comes to taxi fares. Eric Hagen, a part-time cab driver has been offering "pay what you ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Vermont posts
Vermont cab driver offers "pay what you want" fares
Aug 5th, 2009 at 4:00PM: digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Vermont_Taxi_Driver_Offers_Pay_What_You_Want_Fares'; Websites like eBay and Priceline let consumers pay what they want for everything from designer gowns to airline tickets. Now, if you live in Essex, Vermont, you can exercise that same financial control when it comes to taxi fares. Eric Hagen, a part-time cab driver has been offering "pay what you ...Good news and bad: Rabbit Hill Inn extends pink slip getaways
Jun 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM: I guess it's a bad sign that this deal has been extended. Popular demand, however, has prompted the management of the Rabbit Hill Inn to stretch out its "Pink Slip Getaway Giveaway" program. Originally planned to run through the end of the year, it's now going to last until April 2010. Every month – except September and October, the Rabbit Hill Inn will pony up at least one two-night getaway ...Budget summer travel from New York: Burlington, Vermont
May 26th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Check out that gorgeous sunset vista. With that kind of view and a beautiful body of water nearby, you'd probably guess this was somewhere tropical. The Bahamas? Wrong, try again. San Diego, perhaps? Not that either. This sweet view can only be found in Burlington, Vermont: a little gem of a town nestled in the northern half of the state along the shores of mighty Lake Champlain. Let's be honest ...Get out to New England this summer
May 6th, 2009 at 2:00PM: We all know that airlines and hotels are cutting prices like crazy, but the continued recession can still leave some deals unreachable. If you live anywhere from Boston to Washington, a weekend away won't require a trip to an airport, restoring some value to the low rates that hotels and local attractions are charging.
Need some ideas? New England Inns & Resorts suggests the ...AirTran cuts flights to VT, nobody cares
Mar 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM: When AirTran's first flight touched down in Burlington almost a year ago, the airline's director for strategic planning and scheduling, John Kirby, said, "This is going to be a home run." I guess that didn't work out. It didn't even last a year. AirTran's nonstop service between Burlington, VT and the Washington, D.C. area is now but a memory "seasonal." The route will now be serviced for around ...Maple syrup festivals: Hit one now through May
Mar 13th, 2009 at 3:30PM: Depending upon where you live, when the temperatures are just right, it's maple syrup time. In Ohio, maple syrup events are scattered across the state from the beginning of March until May. In Canada and elsewhere, there are maple events a plenty. Each offers something different, although syrup and syrup making is the main highlight. I've been to four of them. Each time I go to one of these ...Pink slip relief in Vermont
Mar 12th, 2009 at 12:00PM: The Rabbit Hill Inn in Lower Waterford, VT is willing to share your pain. If you or your spouse has been unemployed for more than six months, send your story to Leslie and Brian Mulcahy – the inn's proprietors – and you could win a two night getaway, with everything from candlelight dinner to a rabbit's foot and wishes for a return to gainful employment. Every month from April through ...Gadling goes camping (win free Coleman stuff!)
_thumbnail.jpg)
Aug 25th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Every once in awhile, when the writers over at Gadling get tired of the same old motorcycle rides across Asia and space flights, we just want to travel "simple." And that's when a camping trip can be great. Most of us, no matter how large or small the city we live in, are within a few hours' drive of some great unspoiled wilderness where we can pitch a tent, get a nice fire going and spend the ...3 men, 1 van and 48 states in less than 120 hours
May 7th, 2008 at 1:20PM: This morning, when there was one woman (me) in one car (a Toyota Corolla) going along 3 streets in 5 minutes on my way to teach a class, I heard about these 3 guys who are in a car traveling this week to all 48 states in the continental U.S. They're not traveling through each state, but are at least crossing borders to say they've been in each one.
One of the guys, Joshua Keeler, was being ...Is global warming dimming fall's leaf show?
Oct 31st, 2007 at 8:30AM: It appears as though the usual spectacular autumn show in the Northeast has gotten somewhat dull recently. Where some trees would explode in vibrant reds, orange, and yellows they now go from summer's green to winter's dull rust. Tom Vogelmann, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont, says that autumn has become too warm to elicit New England's richest colors. The bright fall colors that ...Springfield, Vermont Wins Simpsons Challenge
Jul 10th, 2007 at 4:30PM:
USA Today announced today that Springfield, Vermont (pop. 9,078 in 2000) has won the Simpsons movie Springfield Challenege. The small town received 15,367 votes out of 109,582, less than almost 1,000 more than the much larger Springfield, Il. If my math is correct (and it rarely is), that's 1.6 votes per person in Springfield, VT. Weird! The new Simpsons movie will premiere on July 21 at the ...The Simpsons Movie: Springfield Challenge
Jul 2nd, 2007 at 2:58PM: Since the exact location was never explicitly revealed in any episode of The Simpsons, fourteen Springfields across America are currently battling it out to decide which town should be the true home of Homer and family. Each of the fourteen Springfields in the running -- Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, ...Hitch50 Comes to a Finish
Dec 1st, 2006 at 1:33PM: Remember Scotty and Fiddy? They started off about two months ago on a mission to hitchhike their way to the state capitals of all 50 states in 50 consecutive days. (Yes, even Alaska and Hawai'i.) Erik gave them some link love early on in their adventure and now that they've completed their fantastic voyage from state-to-state it's time to recap. On October 10, 2006 the two young men headed off ...Fall Foliage Links
Oct 2nd, 2006 at 12:08PM: Well, it's that time again when deciduous leaves around North America explode with color and hordes of shutterbugs jump in their cars and gawk from their cars as nature's version of Laser Floyd slowly unfolds before them. Of course, those living in places like So. California are, once again, out of luck. Folks living in states without seasons do not get treated to the changing fall colors. You ...Vermont Travel
Jan 19th, 2006 at 8:31AM: I was contemplating taking a trip up North to Vermont
to do some skiing in the near future and so spent some time looking for a few good Vermont sites. I wanted to point out
this one that I found particularly useful. This is the state-specific site for Vermont from the larger and fairly
impressive Explore New England site. It looked like a rather
common sort of PR site at first, but once I got ...
