Here are some links to cost-effective summer travel from Tips and Tricks: Summer Savings by Robert Brokamp (Motley Fool‘s Rule Your Retirement Newsletter 07/2012):

Summer travel season is here, and FareCompare.com, Kayak.com, HotWire.com, FamilyVacationCritic.com, AirFareWatchDog.com, SkyScanner.com, SkyAuction.com, and CheapTickets.com have great deals. For spur-of-the-moment trips, see Jetsetter.com, LastMinuteTravel.com, and Sniqueaway.com. Go uncoventional with time shares at CondoDirect.com, EVRentals.com, and ResortTime.com, or vacation rentals from owners at VRBO.com. Check out hostels, adventure travel, or temporary work overseas at BootsnAll.com. Go to SlowTrav.com for tips if you’re looking to settle in and explore a locale in Europe or North America. Use Hotelsweep.com to find places skipped by the bigger travel websites. Backbid.com shops your hotel reservation around for a better deal.

For more money-saving tips, go to Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement newsletter for July 2012.

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“Fallen Fruit is a long-term art collaboration that began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles. The collaboration has expanded to include serialized public projects and site-specific installations and happenings in various cities around the world.

“By always working with fruit as a material or media, the catalogue of projects and works reimagine public interactions with the margins of urban space, systems of community and narrative real-time experience. Public Fruit Jams invites a broad public to transform homegrown or public fruit and join in communal jam-making as experimentation in personal narrative and sublime collaboration; Nocturnal Fruit Forages, nighttime neighborhood fruit tours explores the boundaries of public and private space at the edge of darkness; Public Fruit Meditations renegotiates our relationship to ourselves through guided visualizations and dynamic group participation.

“Fallen Fruit’s visual work includes an ongoing series of narrative photographs, wallpapers, everyday objects and video works that explore the social and political implications of our relationship to fruit and world around us. Recent curatorial projects reindex the social and historical complexities of museums and archives by re-installing permanent collections through syntactical relationships of fruit as subject matter.

“Theoretically, David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young are the three artists of Fallen Fruit that imagine fruit as a lens through which to see the world.” — from the website.

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