Travel 101
Getting a passport and packing your bag. Learning a language and controlling your cash. Places to stay and perils to skirt. Heres our annual manual for a trouble-free vacation.
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After a banner year for travel to traditional destinations, experts anticipate a yearning for more exotic locales.
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OK, we know not everyone is a compulsive list maker, but trip details have a way of spinning out of control.
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Learn a foreign tongue via CD or a group class and it’ll be smoother sailing when you arrive.
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Here is a selected list of events for 2006. (For an expanded list, go to latimes.com/worldevents.)
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This list of visitor offices was provided largely by the California Division of Tourism in Sacramento.
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Exchange services, banks, ATM cards have varying fees. Compare before you go.
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Knowing your strengths and weaknesses as well as those of your camera will make for sharper vacation photographs.
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Each week in Readers Recommend, the Travel section shares tips on hidden gems in the U.S. and abroad.
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Ace Rent A Car (800) 243-3443 www.acerentacar.com Advantage Rent-A-Car (800) 777-5500 www.arac.com Alamo (800) 462-5266 www.alamo.com Auto Europe (800) 223-5555 www.autoeurope.com Avis (800) 331-1212 (800) 331-1084 international www.avis.com Budget (800) 527-0700 www.budget.com Dollar Rent A Car (800) 800-4000 (800) 800-6000 international www.dollar.com Enterprise Rent-A-Car (800) 325-8007 www.enterprise.com Europcar (877) 940-6900 www.europcaramericas.com Europe by Car (800) 223-1516 www.europebycar.com Fox Rent A Car (800) 225-4369 foxrentacar.com Hertz (800) 654-3131 (800) 654-3001 international www.hertz.com Kemwel International (800) 678-0678 www.kemwel.com National (800) 328-4567 (800) 227-3876 international www.nationalcar.com Payless Car Rental (800) 729-5377 www.paylesscarrental.com Renault Eurodrive (888) 532-1221 www.renaultusa.com Rent-a-Wreck (800) 944-7501 www.rentawreck.com Sixt (888) 749-8227 www.sixtusa.com Thrifty (800) 847-4389 www.thrifty.com
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Here is a selected list of events for 2006.
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When gas prices soar, RV sales often tumble; 2005 was no exception.
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Whoever said there’s nothing new under the sun wasn’t hawking travel gear.
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WHETHER he’s strolling along a quay in Paris or mountain biking through rural China, Thomas Donahue likes seeing the world — and he wants to see more of it every year.
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IN the last 20 years, I’ve taken more road trips than Lewis and Clark. And stayed in worse places.
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Find out about historic and scenic sites as well as programs, fees and directions to California’s national parks, monuments and recreation areas: Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Ft.
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Welcome to the Travel section’s Sourcebook, a compendium of articles, tips and resources designed to take the angst out of travel.
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AS we head further down the road in 2006, our heads throbbing from $400-per-night room tabs, we can look forward to a little rate relief, more luxuries and some snazzy new lodgings.
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“My wife, Pamela, found this splendid B&B when she was planning our trip to New Zealand.
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Packing for winter travel with an L.A. wardrobe is easy. The solution is multilayered.
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For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below.
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Watching my well-used backpack tumble down the baggage-claim conveyor belt in Philadelphia last fall, it hit me: I hadn’t packed a single pair of socks.
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States and many U.S. territories have tourism offices to help visitors.
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GETTING images out of your camera and into your computer is the first step in organizing your vacation record.
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DO travelers need a passport? Ask a simple question, get a complex answer.
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She went abroad prepared for mishaps, but a pickpocket stole some of her confidence.
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THOUGH fiercely buffeted by political crosswinds in 2005, Amtrak apparently has survived the political pressure that culminated with the firing of the company’s president.
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Skip the hotels and swap your beach condo for an Italian villa to live the life of a native.
