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Just by way of letting you guys know, Ill be off Hatrack for the summer. Kids are out of school, so it's happy fun time! Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
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My boyfriend and I are going to try to get down to Florida sometime this summer for rock climbing (in a gym), amusement parks, museums, and the like. This will probably include Orlando.
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And one thing more for me too....I'm either going to that certain wedding in early August or to my 20 year high school reunion which happens to be the same weekend. I'm trying to decide if the deciding factor is if I happen to lose the 25lbs I need to lose for the reunion. Utah is much nicer than Anchorage. I suspect I'm going to the wedding and I'm very tempted to drive.
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I might be making a road trip sometime this summer down to Albuquerque to see one of my best friends but I have no firm plans yet. Posts: 37 | Registered: Oct 2005
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I've got a question for more seasoned travellers than I.
When you're travelling to highly westernized first-world countries like Germany and England, is there any benefit to traveller's checques over an ATM card? Last time I went to England I got traveller's checques, and they were such a pain to cash I wondered why I'd bothered.
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I always use my Visa ShareCheck Card. I hate carrying around traveller's checques.
I plan on buying a house and going to see my parents for a week. Then I am flying my youngest sister to Connecticut to stay at my place for a couple weeks so she can keep my fiance company while I am at work (I own the only vehicle and have license).
Almost forgot, going to the race on Father's Day. Taking dad with me.
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The general sentiments on a travel forum I frequent are that travelers' checks are outdated, huge pains in the neck, and to be avoided whenever possible, plus they're usually not worth the hassle because of the fees it costs to cash them.
I've never used travelers' checks in a foreign country (but my mom made me bring them on a high school trip to Virginia Beach). I mainly relied on my debit card and also had a credit card in case something happened to my debit card. For Europe, as long as your debit card has the VISA/Mastercard symbol on it and a 4-digit PIN (if yours isn't, make sure you get that changed before you leave), you shouldn't have any problem using it at ATMs.
Check with your bank and credit card companies to see what their policies and fees are on foreign currency conversions for purchases - a few years ago it was cheaper to just use the cards in stores for direct purchases, but I think now you might get better currency rates if you take out cash at an ATM just once a day or so. I think what's happened is the banks/CC companies have started charging higher per transaction fees for currency conversion, so if you take out cash in larger amounts (i.e. in fewer transactions), you'll end up paying fewer fees. Mind, I haven't done the number-crunching on this idea myself; this is just what I've heard from other travelers.
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I'm driving to Nashville on the weekend preceeding July 4. A bunch of my friends and I are going to party in the Country Music Capitol! Hahahaha, and none of us are particularly fond of 'country.' However, I imagine there's some sort of Bluegrass going on, and that will be awesome. Posts: 511 | Registered: Mar 2006
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Lebanon, eh? Yikes! I was scared just going to Turkey. You are my new hero. Be sure to take in a Rabih Abou-Khalil concert while you're there. And take a picture of the cedars for us.
I'm now about 18 hours from Frankfurt, assuming all goes well. Our first plane is delayed, leaving us about half an hour to catch our connecting flight to Manchester. Fortunately, I brought my laptop. According to American Airlines' website, in that half hour we have to go clear from gate H13 to gate H12. Good thing I'm in shape.
Anyway, just thought I'd give a holla, since I have my laptop out and am in an airport with free wi-fi. Catch you suckas later.
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I'm going to the Twin Cities for the (long) weekend of the Fourth, and to D.C. for August 20-21. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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My summer is looking incredibly busy, though there isn't much travel involved.
For the first three weeks, I'm going to be on a residential course organised by the Ismaili Community to train lay preachers. There are 70-odd people coming to London for the course, from a whole stack of different countries, so it should be cool. Not much travel for me, though - hotel is in West London about 25 minutes' drive from home!
Then I have a week off to spend with my mum, plan my wedding and organise moving myself from North London to South London. After that I'm going to Eskdale in the Lake District with Rob and his family for a week, then I'm home for another week before school starts again!
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Utah is much nicer than Anchorage. I suspect I'm going to the wedding and I'm very tempted to drive.
