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Save money: avoid vacation tolls and traffic

Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, The Sun's travel guru, has posted links to traffic columnist Mike Dresser's tested detours to assist any road-trippers out there headed north toward New Jersey, NYC or New England.

As she points out, any moment spent idling in traffic wastes gasoline that could be used to get you closer to your destination. Makes driving miles out of the way seem worth it --- especially when you consider saving your tolls instead of giving them to Delaware.

Posted by Liz Kay on May 22, 2008 7:04 PM | Permalink

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A native of Vietnam, Dan Thanh Dang has lived in Maryland most of her life and has been a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1990. She's written about everything from mayoral elections and murder to energy prices and online dating. These days, she writes about a topic she's all too familiar with, spending money -- how to save more of it, blow all of it, use it wisely and avoid getting ripped off in the process.
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