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From: parimal@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Parimal)
Newsgroups: rec.travel,misc.forsale,ut.general,austin.general
Subject: Airticket for SALE-->Newark, NJ to Austin/Houston,25th or 31AUG
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: parimal@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Parimal)
Followup-To: rec.travel
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: parimal@dewey.cc.utexas.edu

I have two oneway  airtickets for sale from Newark, NJ to Austin, TX.

Tickets are on Continental Airlines for 25th & 31st of August, changeable at

$25. If you don't have luggage to check-in, these could be used for one

way travel to Houston also. Asking $75 each or best offer.

Call (512) 476-7134. E-mail : parimal@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu 

			      parimal@alpha.iat.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: NEPAL - Malaria Tablets ?
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 21:27:33 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Aug14.225423.28740@canada.ceo.dg.com> wing@canada.ceo.dg.com (Brian Wing) writes:
>msc9116@geovax.ed.ac.uk (B.J.Davies) writes:
[Malaria for Nepal question deleted]
>I took Paludrin every day and Chloroquine once a week for nine weeks in
>East Africa last year and did not experience even mild indigestion.
>Your stomach may, of course, vary.  Now Fasidar (spelling?) is pretty nasty,
                                         Fansidar
>I understand, but on the advice of the Health Dept, I carried some of that 
>stuff for emergency TREATMENT rather than prevention.

Only works for non-resistant strains.

>Have fun!  (My itchy feet are vaguely jealous.)

Tell me about it! Now does anyone on the net have an economical cure for 
this problem?  The only one I know of involves more expensive foreign 
travel.  This seems to alleviate the symptoms for a while but they come
back.  A bit like Malaria or Herpes really.  Once you get the travel bug
you can never really get rid of it.


-- 

Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 

Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.backcountry
From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: Day Trips in Northern California
Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 21:51:18 GMT

|> I am planning an 8 day trip in Northern California in the middle of
|> October.  I plan to visit Shasta NF, Lassen NP, Lake Tahoe and Reno,
|> Yosemites and Kings Canyon. I will be staying in motels, and make
|> backpacking day trips, up to 10 hours/day.
|> 
|> I have never been there before, and would appreciate information on
|> the highlights of the area (accessible by day trips). Am I trying to visit
|> too many places? What is your advice?

I suspect that you are trying to cover too much ground too quickly.  Each of
these places is worth spending a few days each in, especially if you're
planning on extensive hiking.  Does "backpacking day trip" mean "day
hiking"?  In the U.S., "backpacking" usually means multi-day hikes carrying
camping equipment.  Also, note that these places are not real close together
and the winter road closures start around October, so you'll be spending
quite a bit of time driving.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
From: simnet@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Aileen H)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: info about Cancun Mexico
Keywords: Mexico, Cancun
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:05:48 GMT
Organization: Boeing Defense and Space Group, Seattle WA


     We are planning a trip to Cancun, Mexico in the middle of Sept.  and
would appreciate any information about 
		1) what to do and see there,
		2) should we get a rental car,
		3) what kind of food should we try, what kind to
		   avoid,
                4) should we try to go sightseeing by ourselves or
		   join the tour the hotel might have,
                5) how careful should we be about our personal
		   belongings,
                6) what are the good buys,
		7) what's the weather like.
      Please email response to simnet@ssc-bee.boeing.com because I
don't have news feed on this group at my site.  If this is not the
appropriate group to post this please let me know.  Thanks in advance.

Aileen
Organization: Doctoral student, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:13:36 -0400 
From: Mark Knapp <mk69+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Pittsburgh PA to NYC

Kurt,

        The sales tax in Pittsburgh and all of Pennsylvania is only 6%
not 9 as you said in your post.  As far as places to shop, just north
from Philly is a city called Reading known far and wide for being an
"outlet" place for great deals on clothing.  Also, in October a lot of
towns in Pennsylvania have things called "Octtoberfests" wherein people
eat a lot of food, drink a lot of beer and have fun.  It comes from the
cultural heritage of a large portion of the immigrants from germany who
settled in Pennsylvania.  Speaking of German immigrants, don't miss the
Amish or Mennonite groups that have settled in Pennsyalvania.  They were
made popular by the hollywood movie "Witness".

        Pennsylvania is very Historic and Philly and Gettysburg are two
fine places to stop.  Also, near Harrisburg is a placed called Hershey
were you can tour the actrual plant that produces those chocolate bars
everyone loves.  Otherwise, call the 800 number for PA tourism and have
fun.



Mark T. Knapp
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

*************************************

"We are not what we think we are, but
 what we think, we are."

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From: saarinen@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sirpa Saarinen)
Subject: Re: Use of Visa Cards in Germany and Denmark
Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:59:11 GMT

Gord_Pope@mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Pope) writes:

>We returned from Europ last week.  Problems I had with my VISA card (an
[stuff deleted]
>even closed on certain weekdays.  In Italy, they were willing to give me a cash
>advance but had to phone some kind of authorization number where nobody would
>answer the phone.  At other times, stores and resaraunts that would take VISA
>and use an electronic reader would bring my card back to me saying the reader
>wouldn't accept it.  They seemed reluctant to rely on the mechanical system .

It appears to me that in some countries in Europe (I know of France and
England) the cc-authorities (whatever they may be) have introduced a new card
(to prevent use of a stolen card). For this card a new type of machine has been 
introduced: the owner of the card has to type in his/her own pid number 
(signature is then not needed) at the time of purchase. If you look
at the new cards they have two or three magnetic stripes (instead of
one). 

One thing which I did notice was that if you used a (US-type, i.e.
with one strip) visa gold card, the salesperson would type in their own 
"code" into this machine. They did not do this for people like me, who only 
has a visa vanilla-card: many shops/restaurants in France only had the new 
machines. Some shops would call the Visa company to check that my card is ok 
and very few would not. No shop would do it mechanically anymore without prior 
check (of the status of the card - i.e. whether I used a stoled one or my own). 

I think that it is a good system and I hope that the US banks will also 
introduce the safer system (so that visa cards would be more usable in
Europe).

Sirpa Saarinen
saarinen@csrd.uiuc.edu
From: higgins@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter Gerard Higgins)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Brit Rail
Keywords: timetable price
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:42:26 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia

I want to travel from Leeds to York on Sunday the 13th September. My
plane arrives at the airport at 1.25pm. Could someone please tell me:
1.	What the service is like on Sundays
2.	The cost of the ticket (and the type I should get. I'll be
	making a return trip on the 20th)
3.	The time taken for the trip.

Thanks in advance
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Peter Higgins  : School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
                  Swinburne University of Technology
                  P. O. Box 218 Hawthorn 3122, AUSTRALIA
                  Telephone & fax +61 (3) 818-5364
                  e-mail higgins@sungear.mame.mu.oz.au
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Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: mjl8s@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU 
Subject: Renting motorcycle in UK
Reply-To: mjl8s@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU 
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:26:22 GMT


I'm going to have about 2 weeks to kill in England while
staying with a friend near Bath.  I'm interested in renting 
a motorcycle for about a week and just touring around if the
weather is half-way decent.

Anybody have any experience with such a thing?

What's a fair price?

Any laws I should know about?

Thanks.

-Mark


Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: parkerg@osshe.edu (Greg Parker)
Subject: Mexico/Xtapa
Organization: Oregon State System of Higher Education
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:03:31 GMT

I am leaving Sept. 26 for two weeks in Xtapa.  Any suggestions
about it or Zhuatenajo would be appreciated.  Two specific questions:
1. Has anyone rented a car in Mexico? Best company, etc.
Also, my insurance company says it it not recongized in Mexico,
so I'll need to pick up insurance, when I'm down there.  Any
suggestions.  AAA an option?

2. Mexico City-We will be spending a couple of nights there.
What not to miss?
Any unique nightclubs?
We will be staying in the Zona Rosa. 
Thanks.  Greg Parker
parkerg@osshe.edu




Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: ekeeler@menudo.uh.edu (Elissa Keeler)
Subject: Re: restaurants in New Orleans?
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:06:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.130659.16769@pbs.org> kellsworth@pbs.org (Col. Dennis Bloodnok, O.B.E.) writes:
>In article <1992Aug8.233535.12124@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, mas6d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (M. Anne Shackelford) writes:
>> My parents are taking a trip to New Orleans in about a month. 
>> 
>> They would like restaurant recommendations for delicious food, and

The absolute best restaurant in the city, and the only one that brings
native New Orleans residents into the French Quarter, is Galatoire's. It's
kind of pricey, men always have to wear jackets (ties are optional only
at lunch), and the menu expects you to know what the dishes are--no
translations here--but it's an incredible meal and New Orleans tradition.
There is also almost always a line. It's on Bourbon just as you
get to the Quarter, across the street from Felix's oyster bar. (A fine
oyster bar, I might add.)

Tujaque's, on Decatur Street near the French Market, runs a very close
second. Their meals are prix fixe, and include their incredible salad,
a shrimp cocktail in remoulade sauce; a hunk of the most tender
brisket imaginable; one of three or four entrees of the day; coffee
and dessert. We had two complete meals and bottle of red wine for
around $70, tip included. (Prix fixe was around $25.)

The sandwich mentioned in the previous post is a muffaletta, and you can
get them anywhere, but original is from the Central Grocery on Decatur
Street. They're several kind of cold cuts on French bread with a ton of
green olives, and they're not nearly as gross as they sound; in fact,
they converted me from an olive-hater to a tentative eater of olives. 
They cost about $3-4, and a large one is easily enough for two people.

Hope this helped...

Elissa K.  

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Asst. Manager for Information Services	|		Ibid.
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From: zhoud@dwalin.ECE.ORST.EDU (Dongsheng Zhou)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Suggetions for a trip to Yellow Stone, Tetone and Glacier!
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:51:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: none


     I am going to visit Yellow Stone, Tetone and Glacier National Parks 
next week. Please tell me what to visit and where I can find to camp. What is
the coldest temperature (in midnight)? Any advices on taking photos, ect.
Thanks. e-mail to me.
From: cjs01@cd.amdahl.com (Chris Somers)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: SF accommodations < $100
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:26:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


   Friends of my girlfriend are coming out to visit for the Labor Day 
weekend, but are arriving mid-week (Sep 02).  They already made reservations 
somewhere in SF (don't know where) but it's costing them $100/nite.

   Can anyone recommend places in San Francisco that are a bit less (but 
not sleazy =) ).  I've only been in the Bay Area a couple months, so I 
don't know too much more than they do.

   Any help is appreciated.
   Email or post here is fine.

Thanks,
Chris
-- 
Once, I thought I'd died and gone to hell	|cjs01@cd.amdahl.com
But it turned out I was just in Nebraska	|
						|From the movie "Unforgiven"
--
.sig disclaimer:	My ex's new beau is from Nebraska, so I found this
			particularly gratifying.  Noone but those two need
			take it personally.
Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: California fires??
Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 16:46:53 GMT

|> Could anyone give tell me something about the location and extent of the
|> fires which I've heard are burning "in the foothills of the Sierra
|> Nevada" mountains.  I'm heading for Yosemite and Kings Canyon next week
|> and would like to know how camping in the vicinity of these two parks
|> may be affected.  

Last month, there was a fire about 30 miles from Yosemite, but that has been
put out and has no current effect on the park.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
From: rik.brown%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Rik Brown) 
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Travel Scam?? "FREE vacat
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:42:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: rik.brown%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Rik Brown) 

-> I need some info / experiences on a company called EXCEL travel,
-> which called to tell me that I won a vacation package to the Bahamas
-> (5days/4nights) and Orlando (4dys,3nghts). Transportation to Florida
-> is NOT included, and neither is food during the stays.  A boat-trip
-> to the Bahamas from Florida (with food) is included as is a
-> membership with Excel travel ( a company based in Deerfield Beach,
-> Fla).
-> 
-> The cost, for two would be $398 Canadian.  They wanted a credit card
-> number over the phone and I initially refused. Has anyone had any
-> similar "free" trip offers?

Whenever I get one of these, I just tell them send me the "free"
whatever it is but, of course, nothing ever reaches me <grin>.

 * DeLuxe2 1.25 #31s *
From: hemal@perseus.Eng.Sun.Com (Hemal C. Mehtalia)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Round the world tickets.
Date: 17 Aug 1992 18:40:54 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: hemal@perseus.Eng.Sun.Com (Hemal C. Mehtalia)
NNTP-Posting-Host: perseus
Keywords: travel agencies, fares.

	
	Hi! I am seeking recommendations for travel agencies that
	specialise in Round the world tickets. I have scanned the
	SF Chronicle, but would prefer to do business with known
	travel agencies.

	I have already called Air Brokers Intl. and have trouble getting
	through to Global Access (it always seems to be busy).

	So if you have recommendations (travel-agents-to-avoid reccs.
	also welcome) that you can provide, I will appreciate rcving.
	them.

	I plan to leave around end of September.

	/hemal.


--

		/hemal.
Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: Glenn Stauffer <stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: fearful of taking undeveloped film thru X-ray
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6B99D9F1C014333@mac1.beardsley.swarthmore.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 20 Aug 92 00:06:07 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d8
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:06:37 GMT

In article <BtAutB.KA9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> James R. MacCrimmon,
csb58666@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>In ten days time I am going to fulfill my lifelong dream of going to the
>UK.  I will be traveling, by plane, from O'Hare Airport in Chicago
>to Glascow Airport in Scotland.  I am taking with me twelve rolls of
>unexposed Kodak 400 film.  My question is, will taking the film through
>the metal detector, or theough the airport X-ray, damage or destroy my
>film?
>

When I went to Paris, most of the X-Ray machines stated that they
wouldn't harm film
less than 1000ASA.  I wasn't about to trust the machines with my holiday
snaps, so I
carried all my film in a plastic bag (clear zip-lock bag would be best)
and passed it
around the metal detector.  Nobody gave me a hard time at any transfer
point - Phila,
NY, Paris.  Only in NY did anyone bother to open one of the black plastic
film cannisters.
In the US, the security personnel looked in the bag (I had a translucent
bag) and were
satisfied that it was film.  In Paris, security paid no attention
whatsoever.

Glenn
stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.travel.air
From: mmarolda@NeoSoft.com (Mike Marolda)
Subject: Re: DOMINICON REPBUBLIC
Organization: Neosoft Communications
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:05:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.200901.8314@convex.com> pulcher@convex.com (Harold Pulcher) writes:
>Hey man,
>
>DR is a great place to go.  A bunch of us went down to the Jack Tar there in
>Puerto Plata.  We have nothing but good things to say about the place/people/
>beach/food/etc...
>
>later,
>harold
>

Ditto.  We went to Jack Tar and had a GREAT time!  

Mike Marolda   mmarolda@neosoft.com


--
From: 21329KAD@MSU (Kim Dyer)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Wanted: Seattle Hotel Recommendations
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:15:58 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University


>I will be traveling to Seattle Aug 23, staying the night of the 23 and 24.
>There will be myself, the wife and the 2 year old daughter. We intend to do
>things such as take a ferry ride, see Pike Place Market, the Seattle Center,
>etc. Touristy stuff.
>Does anyone have a recommendation for a Hotel? We will have a car available
>also.

I stayed at the Downtown Travelodge about a month ago.  I found it an easy
walk to Pike's Place Market, the ferries, and the Space Needle.  I had a
car available ... but only really used it to get to the zoo.  The rest of
the tourist stuff was within what *I* term walking distance.  (Probably a
little rough on a 2 year old, but not TOO bad)

The hotel was clean and the room quiet.  It was a non-smoking room, so
it didn't reek.  (Please ... no flames from smokers out there.  I've
been in some hotel rooms that smelled like the inside of an old humador.
Lack of circulation does BAD things to even a LITTLE smoke.)

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: Day Trips in Northern California
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:18:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.travel
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug18.202958.23571@linus.mitre.org> mbmg@beethoven.mitre.org (Michael B. Michnikov) writes:
|I am planning an 8 day trip in Northern California in the middle of
|October.  I plan to visit Shasta NF, Lassen NP, Lake Tahoe and Reno,
|Yosemites and Kings Canyon. I will be staying in motels, and make
|backpacking day trips, up to 10 hours/day.
|
|I have never been there before, and would appreciate information on
|the highlights of the area (accessible by day trips). Am I trying to visit
|too many places? What is your advice?

Skip Reno.

I'll respond via email.
-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: bish@druhi.ATT.COM (Biswadip Ghosh)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Information on Greece and Egypt
Keywords: Greece, Egypt, December
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:27:55 GMT
Distribution: rec

We are planning a trip to Greece and Egypt in December.  We would like
to find some information on the following:

- The climate in Athens/Delphi/Santorini/Crete around Christmas time.

- Are ferry services still operational to the islands during last two weeks 
  of December and first week of January?

- What is the approximate cost of a ferry-ride to Crete from Athens?

- Are ferries available to EGYPT during those three weeks? and what would
  a round-trip cost?  Any specific ferry lines that you would recommend?

Thanks,
Bish
From: reno@darlo.Eng.Sun.COM (Reno Marioni)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Indonesia
Date: 13 Aug 1992 18:08:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: darlo

In article <1992Aug13.152633.14530@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> masonp@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Peter Mason) writes:
>
>After I tramp through Indonesia for awhile, I'm planning and spending
>some time wandering in New Zealand as well.  The major obstacle to
>this is transportation.  Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions
>about how to get from Indonesia to New Zealand.  I seriously doubt
>I can afford airfare.  I talked with a woman who mentioned working
>on boats going from New Guinea.  I am more than willing to be a cook
>or deckhand on a boat or ship.  Anyone know details about such things?

Well, if you don't find a boat to hitch on, then you will have to fly.
Here's my suggestion : cruise up to Singapore (that's cheap through Indo)
and check out about flights from Singapore to NZ.  Even better, go even
further to Pinang/George Town in Malaysia to buy your ticket from
Singapore to NZ.  Malaysia/Pinang has the cheapest flights in All SE Asia
as their unwriting laws for airline ticket purchases are different than
Thailand or Sinagapore.  You will most likely get an excursion fare on
a flight originating in Europe flying to NZ via Sinagapore. 

I bought a ticket in Pinang leaving Bangkok to Sydney and picked up
my ticket in Bangkok as I only had a couple of hours in Malaysia-
in a rush to Thailand via train at the time.

Another option, depending on where you are in Indo is to cruise
down to Kupang on Timor (West) in Nusa Tennagurra(sic) and fly to
Darwin--it's the cheapest way into Oz--take buses to Syndey or hitch.
You can arrange a boat, if possible, or fly.  You might be able to
get a $350 AUD return flight from Sydney.  Flights in Australia are
are very expensive (in or out) generally--even with their de-regulation.

Cheers,
reno


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