From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Changes Give Travel Company Wider Appeal

By Stacey Dougherty
Sitting in a classroom learning how to take fingerprints, report the elements of a crime scene and follow the trajectory of a bullet that’s evidence in a homicide may sound unusual to some folks when you explain it’s what you did on your vacation. But according to Mary T. Small, she and her [...]

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You Can Help the People of Haiti With a Text Message

January 13, 2010 – According to MSNBC.com you can give aid to the people of Haiti by using your cell phone. Text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross and charged to your cellphone bill. Other organizations accepting donations are listed on this page.
Our thoughts and [...]

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Golf + Mother Nature = Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Story and photos by Lynn DeBruin
Night was falling and a full moon rising when we stumbled into a man in back of the hotel wielding a pair of scissors. Fortunately for us, he was only in search of fresh sprigs of rosemary from the hotel garden.
That’s when we fully realized why the Sanctuary at Kiawah [...]

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Camping Connection – Florida’s Flatwater

By Bill Steiden
The popular image of canoeing is eternally linked with 1972’s Deliverance – four men shooting deadly Class V rapids on a wild, remote river in wooden canoes. And that wasn’t the riskiest part of their adventure.

But nowadays, the backwoods folks are in the tourist trade, and they’ll tell you that kind of river-running [...]

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Tips for Finding Good Vacation Deals in 2010

By Stacey Dougherty
January 5, 2010 – Well, so far the New Year is not looking kindly on the airline industry. With the Christmas Day incident in Detroit and the fiasco on Sunday night at Newark, the TSA and the airlines aren’t getting any love from passengers. In fact, many are re-considering travel plans that involve [...]

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