How Travelers Can Cope with Airlines' Woes
American Airlines is cutting service, US Airways has filed for bankruptcy protection and United Airlines is threatening to follow suit, leaving travelers in a quandary when it comes to booking flights. What should they do? Proceed as usual -- but ... [... more]
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How to Avoid Traveler's Diarrhea
When visiting areas with poor sanitation, avoid traveler's diarrhea by taking extra precautions with water and food. Check seals on water bottles carefully; if the seal has been tampered with, the bottle may have been refilled with tap ... [... more]
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How to Obtain Traveler's Checks
Traveler's checks have all the advantages of cash, but none of the risks. So leave your wad of cash in the bank where it belongs and travel safely. Go to your local bank or currency exchange office (for example, an American Express Travel office) ... [... more]
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The Misadventures of the Intrepid Travelers
 Follow the story of two Kansas teenagers and their growing family as they embark, in 1959, on a forty-five-year odyssey of travel and adventure. Weather, insects, and unscrupulous roadside merchants complicated things but did not deter the young [... more]
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From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace: The 1851 Travel ...
Because prior studies of American women's travel writing have focused exclusively on middle-class and wealthy travelers, it has been difficult to assess the genre and its participants in a holistic fashion. One of the very few surviving working-class [... more]
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Breaking the Limit; One Woman's Motorcycle Journey ...
Larsen has penned a moving, beautifully rendered chronicle of her life-changing, solo cross-country motorcycle trip across America, during which she discovered the land, its people, and herself. [... more]
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Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
In 35 years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, this is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those Lynch calls [... more]
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Traveler's Diarrhea Treatment
Diarrhea occurs in a significant number of people who travel to foreign countries. Travelers to developing countries of the world become ill from eating or drinking food or water contaminated ... Drink 2-3 quarts of fluid per day. In the first 24 ... [... more]
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Gone with the Wine: Retirement Adventures in France
In charming and whimsical detail, Rosanne Knorr shares the delights of life in France's Loire Valley where the climate is mild, the people are hospitable, and the wine is so plentiful it's pumped from vats like a service station for winos.She and her [... more]
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Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan
In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he was able to observe the war with [... more]
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Quiet Hotels Important to Business Travelers, Families
Some people travel for business and others for pleasure. Whatever the reason for hitting the road, travelers have increasingly sophisticated expectations when it comes to the quality of a hotel. Hotel guests look at many variables, from the ... [... more]
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Who gets travelers' diarrhea?
What preventative measures are effective for travelers' diarrhea? What treatment measures are effective for travelers' diarrhea? When should antimotility agents not be used to treat travelers' diarrhea? Travelers' diarrhea (TD) is the most common ... [... more]
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