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Wheeling Around Princeton
By Linda Tancs
Albert Einstein biked his way around Princeton, so why shouldn’t other brilliant minds (yours included) do just the same? Princeton is a biker’s dream. If you’d like a little help learning your way around, there’s a tour company in Princeton that’d be happy to help. Tours include Albert Einstein’s house, Princeton University Nassau Hall, and the D&R Canal. You can rent a bike along with a universal fit helmet or bring your own gear for a discounted rate! Time to start wheeling and dealing.
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Single Supplements Waived
By Linda Tancs
Single travelers, take note: some tour operators, like Overseas Adventure Travel, are waiving or reducing certain single supplements. Good through 2009, perhaps you can thank the economy for this turn of events. The company also offers a travel companion search service and a free roommate matching service to help avert applicable solo surcharges. How do other operators compare? Write in with your experiences!
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Are You a Wanderer?
By Linda Tancs
“Why do people so love to wander?” mused American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. Why, indeed! U.S. government statistics show that in 2005 approximately 28,787,000 U.S. residents visited overseas destinations. Similarly, overseas visitors to the U.S. that year totalled nearly 22 million. That translates into lots of tour directors leading tours. Do you want to be one of them? ITMI in California has been training tour leaders for 30 years. Maybe it’s time to broaden your horizons. In the immortal words of Robert Louis Stevenson, “The great affair is to move.”
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Getting Into the Travel Spirit
By Linda Tancs
Travel spirit takes on new meaning with spiritually-oriented vacations. No longer the exclusive domain of missionaries and other religious groups, faith-based travel is a multi-billion dollar industry offering pilgramages and packaged tours to sacred sites. Major tour operators like Globus have a division devoted exclusively to tours of holy sites in Israel and Italy. Other operators, like Christian World Tours, offer tours in Vatican City, France, Portugal and Spain. Are you ready for some divine inspiration?
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What a Croc
By Linda Tancs
To hear the folks in Denver tell it, the city is full of crocs. Not the scaly kind, but the walkable kind. Great for walking a Mile High. Or take the Crocs ™ city tour, stopping at locations such as the zoo, botanical gardens, the aquarium, Cherry Creek, or the Pepsi Center. This kid-friendly tour includes collectible Jibbitz ™ charms at each stop. Fashion never looked so fun.
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Lincoln’s Little Cottage
By Linda Tancs
“Cottage” isn’t exactly the right word for a sprawling 34-room estate occupied by Abraham Lincoln as a getaway from the pressures of political life. Situated on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. and declared a National Monument by President Clinton, the Gothic Revival retreat has been refurbished and reopened to the public. Although elitists clamor for a night in Lincoln’s bedroom at the White House, they may have missed the boat in truly experiencing the man and his times. Lincoln spent the better part of his presidency holed up in his Civil war-era equivalent of Camp David. You can’t sleep there, but then again, the price of admission isn’t nearly as steep.
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You Can Be a Select Traveler
By Linda Tancs
Imagine yourself sipping champagne in an ornate wood-paneled dining car, watching the Italian Dolomites soar as the steward offers you yet another canape. Or perhaps you prefer the French country elegance of a château. Or the craggy, mystical highlands of Scotland. Or the samba beat of South America. Whatever your guilty pleasure, Continental Airlines now gives you a menu of options to choose from with their new Select Escapes luxury packages. They’ve put together an impressive array of high-end rail tours, palatial digs, resorts and spas. Someone once said, “Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity.” Does that mean that a luxury vacation is an imperative? You decide.
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National Ballooning Company Organizes Adventure Travel
By Linda Tancs
In search of a better view of fall foliage than your auto can provide? Consider hot air ballooning. Not just for summer thrill seekers, hot air ballooning in autumn provides amazing views of nature’s panoply of color from the Green Mountains of Vermont to the East Mountains of Albuquerque. If you can’t locate a hot air balloon company near you, then try the United States Hot Air Balloon Team (www.ushotairballoon.com). They’ll organize a flight for you nationally or internationally. So up, up and away.
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Test Your Vacation IQ
By Linda Tancs
Is there a difference between a tour and a vacation package? Some might say it depends on the destination. Put your knowledge to the test on the USTOA’s little quiz found on their Web site, www.ustoa.com.
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How to Find a Good Tour Company
By Linda Tancs
Granted, there hasn’t been much news lately of a tour company going belly up, stranding hundreds of passengers and stripping them of their tour and deposit monies–not to mention peace of mind. The majority of tour operators are stable and reputable, but do your homework nonetheless. Check with the Better Business Bureau in the city in which a tour company you plan on using is doing business. You can also download a list of members of the U.S. Tour Operators Association at www.ustoa.com. Each tour company member is required to carry $1 million in security in the form of a bond or letter of credit held in trust by the USTOA to reimburse travelers against the operator’s financial instability or other failures. With over $9 billion in sales volume, that’s a lot of money to look after so be sure to finish your homework.
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