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Adventures For Singles Newsletter
March 2010
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Dear Suzy,
Like most of you, I'm getting cabin fever and can't wait for spring.
Terry and I just returned Naperville, Il after taking a coarse on "Group
Leadership." Go figure....With a humble spirit, I learned a lot.
Returning home, we found O'Hare Airport installed a 150 new body
scanner. Perhaps we'll soon see side side rooms for colonoscopies. I
always try to include some informative stuff in these newsletters. Read
on to stay abreast on travel issues and helpful tips.
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What's On Your Bucket List?
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The pyramids, Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Victoria or Iguazu Falls, Ankor
Wat, Patagonia, Eiffel Tower, Petra, Pompei, The Duomo, Collesseum,
Hermitage or Amazon? The list is endless.
How about Machu Picchu? Here's an open air museum of cultural wonder
and a photographers dream. Imbued with magical silence high in the
Andes lies one of the worlds most extraordinary archeological sites.
It's remarkable in its solid construction and harmony of design within a
mountain setting. This May we present our 5th AFS trip to the
privileged country of Peru. Not long ago, mudslides damaged the rail
lines from Cuzco to MP. Repairs are ahead of schedule and by next month
this UNESCO site will be opened to all. In the future, the government
will be restricting the number of visitors trodding down this terrain.
Don't miss this once in a lifetime trip that oozes with adventure. We
may not be offering again for years to come. One space open.
2010 Trip Status
In 2 weeks! March 15 to 22 from JFK St Paddy's Irish Music
Fling 1 female due to cancellation. Group air from JFK
still available.
May 3-11 Deep in the Andes - Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
- 1 female
May 18-27 Argentina Adventure: City, Iguassu Falls and
Jungle - 4 spaces
A perfect balance of adventure and tranquility, which I'll
be leading. Ride horses with Gauchos, taste juicy steaks,
hike the famous falls 5 times larger than Niagara and enjoy
Yacutinga Lodge with jungle canoe excursions.
June 8-17 Thailand - 1 man
June 30-July 10 Med Cruise - 1 man
Sept 3-11 Exclusive AFS African Vet Immobilization Safari -
2 spaces closing soon
Sept 17-28 Nepal Everest & Tigers - space for 1 man to
share
Oct 10-19 Unseen Kenya - 1 space
Nov 14-24 X-treme New Zealand - 2 spaces
To access any of the above itineraries
click here
http://www.adventuresforsingles.com/afs_singles_travel_schedule.htm
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Get Psyched and Ditch the Deck Chair
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If your typical recipe for R & R on vacation calls for nothing more than
a margarita in a hammock, you may be selling yourself short. In a
recent study, vacationers texted daily ratings of their feelings to
researchers at the University of Canterbury NZ. Travelers with more
active schedules who packed their days with adventure claimed far higher
contentment than those who lazed hours on end. "With a choice between
spending money on a memorable excursion or being a beach bum, a wiser
investment is to opt for an active vacation," says Simon Kemp PHD who
ran the study.
At AFS, we provide active vacations to exotic destinations for your
greatest satisfaction. These draw the most passionate travelers.
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Suzy's Travel Babble
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New Passenger Rights - While
waiting to take off on a domestic flight on a US airline, passengers may
no longer be kept onboard the plane sitting on the tarmac for more than
3 hours. After a 2 hour wait, the carrier must provide water snacks and
bathroom use. This could mean more canceled flights on chronically late
flights (JFK) as airlines can't risk fines.
Photography Secrets - 46 clients
on our last Kenya trip took over 6000 photos. Every camera is digital
now. One problem can be storing photos. Buy the largest memory card
your camera can accept. Internet cafes or photo stores charge around $6
to burn a CD. Don't forget your charger or extra batteries.
The price of digital SLR cameras have dropped significantly. We've
noticed more and more clients are bringing these cameras on tour with
us. Rather than buying an expensive zoom lens (they can cost twice as
much as the camera), consider renting a lens just for the trip. Go to
www.lensrentals.com and rent a $600 telephoto lens for your camera
for around $50.
Back home our clients create amazing digital scrapbooks and albums.
Through
www.shutterfly.com, Terry puts our favorite photos into leatherbound
coffee table books. It's shockingly inexpensive and easy to to do.
Cell Phones Abroad -
Leading groups around the world, I notice some clients phones work
well, even in the African bush. While others, can't make a call
from Prague. Before bringing your phone ensure it is a quad band
phone. A tri-band phone may not work. Ask your provider before the
trip and have them enable the "roaming facility" and check on the
tariffs for use overseas. You can pre-buy bundles of int'l calls.
For calling within the country, buy a SIM card at kiosks or rent
local phone for your stay.
iPhone users have returned home to astronomical bills from
unintentional data roaming charges even without using their phone!
Always disable applications like Facebook and others which
continually pushes data to your phone. To get online use a public
wifi point.
The cheapest way to call home is VOIP. Two other services are
Google.com/talk or Skype.com. Computer to computer calls are free.
Protect Your Wallet Abroad -
In 3 decades of travel, I've had 3 wallets stolen. One was knicked
from my backpack purse (bad idea) at the bucolic Santa's Village in
Finland. Photocopy the front and back of all credit cards onto 1
page. Keep this folded with a copy of your passport in carry-on.
If you're hit, this page of accounts and int'l telephone numbers
enables you to instantly cancel all cards.
JFK News - A major runway
will be closed 4 months for repair. Airlines are cutting back 10%
of flights and increasing ticket cost to New York. Also, expect
delays in and out of JFK until July.
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Quick Links...
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Contact Information
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GA phone: 770-432-8225 Elsewhere: 877-813-9421
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