Just to finish off a trifecta of posts this week about my dubious travel past, I was enlisted to share 3 travel secrets by Joya Anthony (www.beatravelbee.com) and Jeannie Mark (www.nomadicchick.com) as part of the chain letter started by TripBase. Evidently, TripBase is taking marketing lessons from Herbalife. But hey, whatever works.

For some time,  I struggled with the question. Oh sure, I could have carried on about the sedate beauty of Pau France, Lucca Italy or Al Ain UAE. But others have covered that territory far more eloquently than I could (meaning they’re not very well kept secrets in the first place).

Hey, you're doing it wrong!

Then, there are the offbeat California attractions like Winchester Mystery House, Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine and Watts Towers. All cool stuff. But still, they didn’t feel quite right.

And then it hit me. Like the Masked Magician revealing Magic’s Greatest Secrets, I’m going to reveal … wait for it … the travel secrets they don’t want you to know. Like grass stains on a prom dress, we’ve all been soiled with dirty little lies and it’s about time that someone did the laundry. » Read more: 3 Travel Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know