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Remember the strange great white sharks phenomenon? Well, the tide has turned, and this time it's considerably less surprising. As we've explained in the past, we track and analyze which travel stories, categories, pages and advertisements are being accessed at e-Margaux.com and e-Marginalia.com so that we can observe the trends and fluctuations in the global travel marketplace and continually improve our websites to meet our visitors needs and preferences. In recent weeks a soaring percentage of you are arriving at e-Margaux.com after searching for one of these terms (in order of popularity): airline airlines cheap ticket tickets cheap tickets air ticket airplane tickets air tickets flight ticket air travel airticket cheap flights What does this mean? Well, several things. The obvious answer is that the big search engines are helping travelers discover that our e-Margaux Flights booking engine is a great way to research and purchase airline tickets at great prices. Less obvious answers include:

Have you visited the current e-Marginalia Photo Contest (ends July 1) featuring exceptional travel photographs by nine finalists. The e-Marginalia Travel Gallery showcases spellbinding destinations that invite you to wander, even if it's only briefly while sitting at your desk between tasks. Escape into the exotic, the faraway, the beckoning world just waiting for you to venture abroad and discover it.

A very busy summer air travel season is forecast, as rising gas prices send many families to their destinations by plane this year. Full flights are anticipated, making planning ahead essential. Packing expert Susan Foster, author of Smart Packing for Today's Traveler, offers these ten tips for smart family travel.

Can't find our blog? True to her name, Meandering Margaux has been spotted all over the place lately. Well, not literally. Due to some server juggling, the e-Margaux.com Blog has recently been hosted at several URLs, but the current one is here to stay. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Here's a little travelogue for where our blog's been lately:

Meandering Margaux's current and permanent URL as of May 30, 2005:

http://e-marginalia.com/blog/ AND http://www.e-marginalia.com/blog/

Being from New England, where we enjoy some of the ‘best’ worst weather anywhere, I wanted to express how much I enjoyed John Regan’s article, The Best Worst Weather. Seeing that the Pacific Northwest is one of the few regions in this country that I have not experienced first-hand I found myself more and more curious about Astoria and the surrounding area, its offerings and its people, while reading this refreshingly descriptive article. John, like my wife and I (both adventurous car travelers) seems to appreciate beauty where it is not always obvious. Anyone can spend a bundle of money to stay at an all-inclusive resort and live in an imaginary world for a week. But to venture out and discover real people and real places can sometimes take little more than a working vehicle and an eagerness to see the value in simple every day life, which can quite often be extraordinary.