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    16 Travel Blunders to Avoid!

    1. Not calling your bank or credit card company before you leave Before our trip to China, we did very little preparation other than just pack our bags and water our plants. On our first night in Beijing, we thought, “No problem, we’ll just walk to the mall near our hotel, hit up an ATM and grab some dinner”.  We visited an ATM with my debit card’s logo and, worst thing ever; it sucked up my debit card and kept it!  We tried buying some small items at a grocery store and got rejected with every card we tried there as well.  That night, we had to go back to…

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    China

    We booked out trip with a Diamond Bar, CA (local for us) company called Intertrips. We got such a great deal, I sometimes wonder if the Chinese government subsidizes tourism. We started our China vacation on the Metrolink train from Rancho Cucamonga in to Union Station in Los Angeles. From Union Station to LAX, we had to get on a BUS.  The “Fly Away bus isn’t too bad, but there really should be trains that go to all of the airports.  I’ve heard that the reason trains like Metrolink don’t go to the airports is that the taxi unions opposed them for obvious reasons.  Well, their business is becoming history…