Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / December 2004

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"If you need to travel between Nashville, Tenn., and Dallas, the
lowest unrestricted, nonstop fare is $1,291 on American Airlines. But
if you want to fly between Nashville and Houston nonstop, you'd pay no
more than $356 for a round-trip ticket on Southwest."

I have about a 4 hour  stop over in Newark on my from Europe to San
Francisco.
What are my chances of getting into New York, specifically to the B&H
camera store, buying a lens and getting back in time for my next

You can do a realtime search for cruises at
http://orlandotouristinformationbureau.com/seacruise/staterooms.htm

Size is 45 inches x 90 inches. It is BRAND NEW. Sells for $120 plus
tax. Will let go for $75.00
e-mail commadoreNOSPAM@sympatico.ca

Waiting for the barbarians
A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic
decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America
When I wrote my recent book, The Twilight of American Culture, my

We just recently had the occasion to visit Santa Barbara, California for a
couple of nights.
It's a really pretty small city by the beach in central (almost southern)
California.   The main street in town for shopping and restaurants is State

Some guy in Arizona is making a mint from selling Canadian kits to
Americans travelling to Europe...comes with a flag, a patch and lapel pin
and a list of handy Canadian phrases. Too funny...apparently many are being
purchased by Republicans as gag gifts for their Democratic friends ...

I will be in Las Vegas after 6pm Dec 19, 2004. I will only stay there
for a few hours. Is there any good activity at that time?
Is there any website provide any information? Thank you!
Peng

We're coming over to New York from the UK in a few days time to do some
Christmas shopping (4th trip here)
With the new regulations you need to know the full address of where
you're staying including the zip code when you fill in the visa waver form.

Considering either the Treasure Island Resort or the new Westin Casuarina
Hotel in Las Vegas for a 3 night stay in February.  Room prices are about
the same.  Will spend a little time in the casinos, but it's not a major
deciding factor.

Am planning to spend a week this winter in Dominican Republic.
Any and all tips will be much appreciated, since package tour is being
quoted at very low cost, but a lot of unknowns.
Warnings and bad experiences welcome, so they can be avoided.

A week or so ago, someone posted a message about the Comfort Inn and
some other hotel in NY for $140.00 a night. I can't for the life of me
find the posting. Can someone help please.
Thanks

I am going to be in Orlando on business for a few weeks and my company
has booked me into a hotel on International Blvd. Are there any good
restaurants that are not chains nearby? Really prefer something with
fresh fish and seafood but will go anywhere that is rocommended.

I'd like to take a vacation in the US.... but I read so much about the
attitudes and ignorance of the people there I wonder if I could have
an enjoyable vacation with my family. Is it true that people are all
loud, pushy and carry guns everywhere? Can you get decent food in the