For a full list of today's Salon Travel stories, go to the Travel home page. Two new books offer tips and tales from the wild wide world. When you spend half your life in hotels, you learn a lot about your neighbors. The perils of the harem Beguiled by beauties in negligees, a Peace Corps volunteer stumbles into a romantic misadventure in Marrakech. Vagabonding In Vientiane, a lull before the storm Our correspondent enjoys a drowsy detour in the Lao capital before preparing to take over as second mate on the Mik Sip.
Myrtle Beach has dozens of courses, and many of the resorts in the area offer packages.
You can get descriptions of them in a golf vacations planner available from Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday , a nonprofit association representing many of the golf courses. The guide has good descriptions of the properties and clubs, as well as photographs and airline information. There's a golf section on the Myrtle Beach official tourism site. In an earlier column, a reader asked about clean, inexpensive hotels in San Francisco. The Edward II Inn is very nice.