If you look you can find some little treasures in your own backyard. Royal Tea and Treatery in Costa Mesa, California is one of those little treasures in more ways than one.
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Is your passport coming up for renewal next year? If so, I hope you find the following information helpful. Even if it isn’t up for renewal for a few years, please read on you may still find part of it helpful. Do you remember the rush to get a passport back in
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When you travel, do you buy travel insurance? I guess you can say I am overly cautious, but in checking with my health insurance company, we would have some gaps in coverage if something should happen overseas. So I do buy it. But should you?
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I love Vancouver, so any time I can spend even a day in the city, I will. Vancouver is an active cruise port, especially in the summer months when ships are in and out sailing to Alaska. We recently sailed into Vancouver and I had booked later flights so we
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I had the opportunity to check out the Travel and Adventure show in Long Beach this past weekend. Packed with travel vendors and tourism boards, the event was fantastic. Several stages were set up around the room with speakers giving travel tips, destination information and the tastes of travel. Rick Steves, Samantha Brown from the
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I recently had the chance to see Gringo Trails, a feature length documentary directed and produced by Pegi Vail. The film is so well done and such an eye-opening experience for any traveler. The documentary starts with the story of Yossi Ghinsberg who backpacked with 4 friends into the Bolivian jungle, when a torrential rain
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Are you the type of traveler who prefers to take a tour with a guide, or simply lay on the beach and by the pool never leaving the resort or explore on your own? I like them all, but really like exploring on my own. You just never know what little hidden treasures you may
When you leave home for vacation do you stop and think about your safety before you go? I want to finish out the week with travel security and ways to keep yourself from being a victim of identity theft or plain old fashioned theft. Credit Cards ~ Unpack before you pack. Take time to go
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Identity theft is unfortunately something we all have become very aware of in our daily lives. For some reason though when we leave home to go on vacation, a lot of us throw security to the wind because we are on vacation what can happen? Plenty can happen and it does. Make sure you don’t
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Are you the type of traveler that knows exactly what you are taking on vacation and it fits perfectly into your bag, or do you pack at the last minute? Do you try to cram it all in because you want choices while you are on vacation? I tend to want to take it all
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