USDA OKs musical instruments for travel under Lacey Act

The Capital Bikeshare program in Washington, D.C., has been hugely popular. Launched in 2010, it clocked 1 million trips in the first year of operation; in only eight months, it recorded the next million.Adam Sledd uses the system as often as three times a week, but he may ramp that up and eventually use a bike on his 2.5-mile commute to work. "I'm not sure how comfortable I am yet riding through downtown D.C. in rush hour," he admits.About the value of travel there was little dispute. Nightrider wrote, "Travel? china tour operators That's the breath of our retired life." Meanwhile, jstern47 joked (or at least I hope it was a joke), "It'll be dog food before giving up travel!"But posters varied in how they had budgeted for their globe-trotting. Some respondents said that their annual budget earmarks specific dollar amounts for travel, while others said that they've set aside a separate kitty (or bucket) for travel expenses. Still others let market conditions and portfolio performance dictate how much they can travel in a given year. Posters also weighed in on how they had factored life stage into their travel plans during retirement. While some had set aside more funds for travel early in their retirement years, others said that their travel was still going strong well beyond the years typically characterized as "go-go."In some of the most entertaining posts in the thread, kashgar border transfer respondents also shared tips for saving money on travel during retirement, touting everything from dog-sitting while on the road to racking up airline miles and hotel points.To read the complete thread or share your own tips on traveling during retirement without breaking the bank, click here.Cherie, for one, treats travel expenses just like the electric bill: as a yearly budget line item: "I plan to budget for travel in retirement just as I have been while working--as a line item in my annual spending plan.