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Oktoberfest, Iconic Foods, Beatle Beat

Here's some trivia for the month: travel to Singapore ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ style for cheap, last meals of 23 famous people, surprising things the TSA allows past airport checkpoints, the latest in flight meal reviews, burping and other global etiquette surprises and our latest Beatles trivia.

My dream was about to become a reality. Based in Los Angeles, I was used to taunts from my otherwise wonderful East Coast friends, who were never shy about battering me with people in Southern California don’t know what REAL pizza is. Though I had eaten my way through New York, Boston and Philly in the past and had sampled their delicious pies – I would ask them countless times why it was a REAL pizza and others were not.

Are we really what we eat? Not sure about that. But judging by the comments of our esteemed travel writers at Traveling Boy, we seem willing to try just about anything from reptiles, bugs and even some tasty surprises from the far corners of the globe. Please Note: Read at your own risk. Piranha I Caught in Peru’s Amazon. Eat …

In Bob Dylan's famed August 1965 interview with Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston were many silly questions like “Where did you get that shirt?” At one point, Ephron had the gumption to ask Dylan, “Who is Mr. Jones in 'Ballad of a Thin Man?'”

Here's some trivia for the month: the Latin Quarters in Paris, the world’s first floating space hotel launching in 2021, a whiskey lover's dream gift, a bridge linking Ireland and Scotland, cruise ships, dynamic ticket pricing, Anthony Bourdain, adventure personality, the Travel Guys.

bedroom at the writer's room, Inn at the Pier

If you spend enough time comparing hotels, flights, and tours, you’ll eventually realize that many words have very little meaning in the travel industry. You might think that there would be some sort of common agreement on travel terms across hotels that would define what makes a suite a suite or a deluxe room better than a standard room, but no such agreements exist.

Bill Mauldin's Willie on Time Magazine Cover and book cover of Bill Mauldin's Army

He meant so much to the millions of Americans who fought in World War II, and to those who had waited for them to come home. He was a kid cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper; Mauldin's drawings of his muddy, exhausted, whisker-stubbled infantrymen Willie and Joe were the voice of truth about what it was like on the front lines.

Here's the list of the best castles to visit in Ireland.

Turns out that Seattle is now the place to go for amazing Southern food at a restaurant run by Edourado Jordan who scored the most coveted loot at the 2018 James Beard Awards, taking home Best New Restaurant for Seattle’s buzzy JuneBaby and Best Chef; Take a look at 8 bucket-list-worthy sights that also happens to be some of the worst places for air pollution.