...If you're going away for the holidays this year, you're probably unhappily anticipating a hike in gas prices, long lines at airport security and delays all-around. According to the Bureau of Transportation, Thanksgiving and the winter holiday season are the busiest long-distance travel times in a given year. While travelers cannot avoid hefty waits at check-in and traffic on the highway, there are plenty of measures to take in order to alleviate any holiday season travel stress.

Know when to travel: For local excursions, people tend to leave on Thursdays. If traveling over 100 miles away, Wednesday through Sunday are the most popular days.

About 90% of Thanksgiving travel is through one's vehicle.

The Sunday and Monday after Thanksgiving are the busiest days to travel back home. If you book a flight or drive on Tuesda...more

Which Shui is the Right Shui? Use Travel Feng Shui to Make Your Trip a Success

...When traveling, whether for business or for pleasure, you can still enjoy the benefits of feng shui. You might have even noticed that you enjoy your travel more (or less) when you travel to certain places that are in one direction. Maybe you find that you enjoy travel equally well, but more so to some places than others. For some, Asia might hold greater attraction, and for others, it might be Europe. Here are some ideas to enhance your travel feng shui -- including how to tell which is the right "shui" for you!

Determining Feng Shui Travel Directions
Unlike sitting and sleeping directions, determining travel feng shui directions that are auspicious or inauspicious is based on where you are traveling from, rather than where you are traveling to. Say for instance that you are an east group person living in Dallas and you are traveling to Los angeles. You would say that looking from Los angeles you will be coming from the east. This is a good direction for an east-group person, but not for a west group person.

Ideally, East group people want to travel from the EAST and West group people wa...more

Do You Need Your Travel Agents Anymore?

...Most of us fancy traveling into distant lands and see new places and the present age offers us ample means to fulfill these dreams as well. With the world being turned into a global village, the networking and transportation has gone through a big change and it has made traveling very easy. With the emergence of various travel packages in the market, traveling around the world is no more a distant dream. There are various agencies that are eager to transform your dreams into reality.

Here exactly, the i...more

The $7 Trillion Travel Industry

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Annually, there is more than $7 trillion dollars spent on travel around the world. There are many reasons why this industry is so huge. First, there is the fact that often people must travel, for business reasons. Second, people travel often to visit long-distance relatives. Third, people travel for pleasure. The travel and tourism industry includes many smaller sectors, such as air travel, car rentals, hotels and resorts, and numerous other smaller sectors. The fact that so many sma...more

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... skip some steps) it's critical to stay within the budget, sure the goal is to make great games, but you won't be able to do that for long if your run out of money. Included in the budget will be the forum for which you'll make your product available. It may be through traditional retail or an online game. In the latter case you'll dramatically reduce your costs by offering it online, generally pc games will take the download games route. What will you charge for the game, will you be offering free download games or will charge people to play. Free games create revenue through advertising so it's still possible to make a profit. After you've answered the business questions you can move onto the actual development.

When you've decided what type of game you want and have gotten approval to move forward, put together a team to create it. Programmers, artists, writers and producers are essential (it may sound daunting but for cheap costs multiple jobs may be held by single individuals). Map out the process, what the user interface will look like, a flowchart for how things will progress and a story arch. It's important to focus on ...more

Super smash Bros Brawl Gets a Familiar Writer

... everyone is pretty bummed about the holdup on Brawl, its affecting people all over the world. Japan has it, they play it, whats the hold up?

Well even if we knew the holdup, the fact still remains that if and when they get this game released, Mario Kart Wii's release date will probably be held back.

Productions for Super smash Brothers Brawl began in early 2007, leaving Mario kart Wii on hold until they were finished and ready to reveal the most anticipated game of the year. Nintendo, being as grea...more

Nintendo's Plumber Mario - A Short History of His Major Accomplishments

... story that the characters name was changed because of his similarity in appearance to nintendo of America acquaintance Mario Segale. Whatever route he took to his name, the Mario we see and love today is the same one from 1981, short overalled, Italian and mustachioed.

In 1983, Mario returned in his own adventure. After someone pointed out that he looked more like a plumber than a carpenter, his profession was accordingly changed and Mario as we know him today was born. Luigi also made his first appearance here as Marios brother and rival in jumping dumping and taking out koopas, goombas, and other bad guys for maximum points. The original arcade Mario Bros. showed up in arcades hot off the heels of Donkey Kongs success, but didnt have quite the same success itself. It was in fact a stage in which video gaming itself was dying. Ataris home consoles were overpriced and not producing and the idea of arcade gaming was being segwayed in favor of these at home gaming attempts. Companies bankrupted and nothing was seen for almost 2 years as a result.

It was nintendo itself that would successfully breach the barrier between the arcade and the living room again, single handedly reviving the dying industry and saving video gaming as we know it.

With the launch of the Famicom in Japan in 1983, nintendo executives decided that they needed a killer piece of software to sell consoles. They turned back to Miyamoto and his goofy plumber for a new start and he delivered. Released in 1985, Super Mario Bros. was a revolution in home gaming. It redefined the technology in home gaming at the time and created the mushroom Kingdom as we still know it. The goofy ideas that floated Donkey Kong and Mario Bros a few years before were released in earnest in Super Mario Bros and born was the mushroom chomping, pipe warping antics of Mario and his brother Luigi. The invention of the platforming genre as well as the lengthy at home, sit down gamin console made Super Mario Bros one of the top selling games of all time, sending Japan and the US into Mario madness, creating an atmosphere willing to accept and support Nintendo no matter what. The video gaming age was not dead, it was just born. And Mario led the way.

Super Mario Bros 2 was born as a direct sequel to the first game with an entire new batch of levels, poison mushrooms and wind gusts. The game never saw release in the US though as ...more

Luigi and Daisy? Who Is Princess Daisy?

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So this leads to believe that there will be more to come in future Nintendo titles. Including Mario Party, Mario Kart, Super smash Brothers, and possibly future Paper Mario games. Nintendo has made it very clear that there is something between Luigi and Princess Daisy. It might be a build up into a future Luigi title featuring Daisy as the the princess in distress.

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