Travel Tips: Are You Taking Your Pet To The City Of Angels?
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If you’re thinking of taking your pet along with you during your Los Angeles Tour, keep in mind the following things –
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Travel Benefits: Why Travel To Canada From New York?
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How to Get a Duplicate U.S. Passport
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This post is relevant for readers with U.S. passports who travel frequently. If you don’t fit in that group, feel free to skip this one — or just read it for the entertainment value.
I’ve mentioned a few times that I have two U.S. passports, and each time at least one person asks me how that works. Well, I’ll tell you exactly how I got the second passport, and what you need to do if this would help you too.
First, the need for a second passport. Why bother?
Air Travel: DOT Releases Airline Delay List for September
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The percentage of airline flights in September that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, according to the U.S. Transportation Department.
In parenthesis is the carrier’s ranking the previous month.
1. Hawaiian Airlines, 94.1 percent (1)
2. Alaska Airlines, 90.0 percent (2)
3. Southwest Airlines, 89.1 percent (6)
4. Frontier Airlines, 89.1 percent (4)
5. JetBlue, 88.7 percent (15)
Air Travel: Google Offers Free Wi-Fi for the Holidays
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Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.
Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it would provide free Wi-Fi access in 47 airports across the U.S., including Boston, Houston and Seattle, through Jan. 15. The airports handle about 35 percent of U.S. air travelers, the company said.
Travelers who connect to a wireless "hot spot" at one of the airports will see a browser page that gives them the chance to donate to three charities and have the donation matched by Google.
Light Up Your Christmas Holidays With New York’s ‘Norway Spruce’
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No Rest for the Weary As Rest Stops Close
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That old adage "No rest for the weary" could have been coined with Mark and Barbara Van Art in mind.
Driving from their home in Glendora, N.J., to North Carolina, the Van Arts wanted to stop at a rest area on Interstate 85 in Virginia, but it was closed because of state budget cuts. Exiting the highway, they headed for a fast food restaurant — only to discover that it was the same one they had stopped at during an earlier trip and found dirty. It was back to the highway in search of a rest area.
Escape Your Family for the Holidays
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When Lulis Leal’s family gets together for Christmas, she is usually sunning herself on a beach surrounded by palm trees and turquoise waters, with not one extended relative in sight.
For more than 10 years, Leal has been spending the holiday season in exotic locales like the Bahamas or Hawaii — anywhere warm, the Cedar Grove, New Jersey, resident said.
She finds it the perfect time to get away with her husband and son.
"It’s like everybody’s home with their family so we’ve got the whole beach to ourselves. It’s like our own little private paradise,"
Are the Economics of Twitter Airfares Worth It?
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More and more budget-travel tipsters are pointing towards Twitter, Facebook and social media outlets as the source for wild cheap airfares these days. And it’s true, in a way. By subscribing to the pundit feeds online it’s possible to get the inside scoop on a few good routes, often saving a few shekels on a future itinerary.
Going to Yosemite? Don’t Take the Minivan!
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One of the great draws of visiting a National Park like Yosemite in California is that you can get very close to nature and see animals in their own habitat. But there is a limit to just how close you want to get to certain animals, especially black bears, which can be dangerous to both humans and cars as they look for food.
There are several ways to reduce your risk of having an unpleasant encounter with a black bear, and as it turns out, not driving a mini van may be one of them.