Forum: USA & Canada
March 6th, 2009, 04:55 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 18
Views: 894
Route 66 and the Arctic circle
Here's a web site to start with:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-Mainpage.html
Another good one: http://www.rt66nm.org/
New Mexico shows it off in two contexts: a still-existent (here...
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Forum: USA & Canada
January 29th, 2009, 04:02 AM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 23
Views: 994
Catalina Island in Winter
You are a wuss! I've swam in 45F water in Lake Chelan, Washington. No
problem.
Tastes do vary! This gives you an idea of how fast you'll turn how
blue in different...
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Forum: USA & Canada
January 28th, 2009, 11:16 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 21
Views: 922
American Roadtrip April 09
Most of the scenery you will see is miles and miles of sand, for as far
as the eye can see. I drove from Las Vegas to San Francisco and back
once. I promised myself I would never do it again....
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Forum: USA & Canada
January 28th, 2009, 02:51 AM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 23
Views: 994
Catalina Island in Winter
during Winter I am expecting it might be too chilly
They usually do get their rain in the winter, but the five- and ten-
day outlooks from the date of this posting are more or less a
recruiting...
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Forum: USA & Canada
January 23rd, 2009, 11:25 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 2
Views: 452
Mississippi Cruises?
Dunno if anybody does the kind of trip you have in mind now that the
three Queens seems to have been trumped by one recession. As you've
learned, several of the major cities on the lower...
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Forum: USA & Canada
January 3rd, 2009, 08:13 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,022
A massacre in Los Angeles
This tragedy was pretty much irrelevant to travel/tourism, though. It
proved to have been an extremely personal matter, focused on the
estranged family and in-laws of the perpetrator.
Covina is a...
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Forum: Air travel
December 16th, 2008, 04:26 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,707
Giving up your seat for money
Does anyone have *the Canadian equivalent to the information reached at the
LINK down below?
Sorry about the implicit assumption that we're all playing by American
rules, which is, after all,...
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Forum: Air travel
December 15th, 2008, 05:22 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,707
Giving up your seat for money
Passed it up twice, both times because I *had* to be on the other end
for business reasons before the next available flight. One of those
times, Delta had overbooked by five passengers CVG-CDG and...
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Forum: USA & Canada
November 14th, 2008, 08:04 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,070
Non-traveler needing air travel advice
For a first time traveler or even an experienced traveler, your best bet
is a seasoned travel agent.
Sound advice -- especially as we come up on the traditionally very
busy Thanksgiving travel...
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Forum: USA & Canada
September 14th, 2008, 05:21 AM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 6
Views: 767
Things to do in Napa-Sonoma area
Like plants? Santa Rosa has the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens
(it's also possible to visit the farm up toward Sebastopol where he
did a lot of his...
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Forum: Europe
July 28th, 2008, 07:16 PM Posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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Replies: 122
Views: 3,537
Women try to open door mid-flight
Given the report it seems likely that a custodial sentence may
be judged appropriate. Dangerous drunks who are abusive and
flout safety regulations need slapping down hard.
Perhaps at least...
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Forum: Air travel
July 28th, 2008, 07:16 PM Posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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Replies: 65
Views: 2,132
Women try to open door mid-flight
Given the report it seems likely that a custodial sentence may
be judged appropriate. Dangerous drunks who are abusive and
flout safety regulations need slapping down hard.
Perhaps at least...
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Forum: Europe
July 24th, 2008, 12:30 AM Posted to rec.travel.europe,uk.politics.misc,rec.travel.air
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,217
Family is flown 2,000 miles the wrong way
it's not entirely unbelievable that they thought Bodrum
was just the airport 'on Lanzarote' that they were flying to.
I can see myself blundering into exactly the mistake you described.
Of...
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Forum: Air travel
July 24th, 2008, 12:30 AM Posted to rec.travel.europe,uk.politics.misc,rec.travel.air
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,635
Family is flown 2,000 miles the wrong way
it's not entirely unbelievable that they thought Bodrum
was just the airport 'on Lanzarote' that they were flying to.
I can see myself blundering into exactly the mistake you described.
Of...
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Forum: Air travel
July 22nd, 2008, 12:08 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 22
Views: 902
Sydney to LA on American Airlines question
a ticket on the UA nonstop from Toronto
which is an AC codeshare. No go, had to be an actual US-flag plane,
so I had to take a connection.
They might be harder-nosed in the bit of the...
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Forum: Air travel
July 21st, 2008, 07:14 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 22
Views: 902
Sydney to LA on American Airlines question
Those stupid
codeshare flights, causing about three times as many flights as necessary
listing on airport departure and arrivals boards.
Yes, but from an AA frequent flier's...
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Forum: Air travel
July 19th, 2008, 01:20 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,944
elderly mom on Southwest
This page (and this site generally) tell all:
http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/disability.html
and 1-800-IFLYSWA can answer any other questions you may have. The
following are anecdotal...
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Forum: Air travel
June 28th, 2008, 07:19 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,033
luggage
What airline, and what kind of flight?
Airline websites indicate that policies about carry-on weight vary:
a quick glance at some likely candidates shows limits of 40 pounds at
Delta and American;...
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Forum: Air travel
June 24th, 2008, 11:02 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,049
carry-on luggage
He wasn't referring to WN. Many of the airlines board in groups.
Southwest sorta boards in groups, just with more substructure than
they used to. You don't get a seat assignment, but you get...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 14th, 2008, 05:34 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 19
Views: 722
Too much water - or not enough!
With the almost perrenial flooding in the Mississipi basin, and the
ever present need for more water in the southwest
The latter is pretty generically true. The former is not at all true
--...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 14th, 2008, 05:20 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 4
Views: 530
I-70?
On Jun 13, 12:32*pm, Judy Heuman wrote:
We are leaving in a few days for a trip mostly across I-70. *Frankly,
I am concerned since I see storms, floods and tornadoes reported...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 9th, 2008, 10:24 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 21
Views: 973
Can anyone tell me where this location is?
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cill/where.jpg
What sure looks like the same picture was in National Geographic a
couple of years ago, in an article called "Lake Powell Revealed."
Said revelation came from...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 6th, 2008, 10:40 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,595
Road Trip - LA to San Fran to Vegas
Buy an inexpensive thermometer (that goes up to at least 120F)
and take a photo of it.
Yes; the odds are poor that it'll get hotter than that, at least if
you take the temperature in the...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 6th, 2008, 05:20 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,595
Road Trip - LA to San Fran to Vegas
But even if it's not the ideal time to visit, it
can still be fun & educational, especially if the original poster has
never been there before.
True enough. And he'll presumably be doing this...
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Forum: USA & Canada
June 5th, 2008, 10:56 PM Posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,595
Road Trip - LA to San Fran to Vegas
Just curious - why not DV? Is it because it's intensely hot in Aug?
A good website to visit (peel back the URL a little and you'll find a
lot more good stuff)
http://www.nps.gov/deva/faqs.htm
I...
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