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Travel D-10 Sunday, February 6, 2005 Green Bay Press-Gazette www.greenbaypressgazette.com Here and There Tip of the week The Best of A A A Spectacular Scenery Our vear as OwnerOperator AK guides. VIP motorcoach, airfare, lodging more incl. July 5-20 OR July 22 August 6 1-800-287-5387 or 1-715-258-7909 Springer Tours LLC (Located near Waupaca) Book hotel: The words "book" and "hotel" have taken on new meaning at Rosewood resorts. The company's resorts are offering guests advance copies of works by best-selling writers like Sidney Sheldon, Stephen King, Dan Brown and Annie Proulx. The program, called "Hot Type," is the result of an arrangement between Rosewood and five major publishers Random House, Harper, Hyperion, Knopf and Simon Schuster to provide bound galleys of the books anywhere from six weeks to six months before they are released to the public.

New titles will arrive monthly at Rosewood properties, which include Caneel Bay in the U.S. Virgin Islands; Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands; Jumby Bay in Antigua; and Las Ven-tanas in Cabos San Lucas. Guests can choose their reading material from a menu available by the pool or on the beach at all the resorts and have the latest best seller finished before it's even reviewed. For more information, visit www.rosewoodhotels.com or (888) 767-8663. TV LOCAL AIRFARES All fares reported by Fox World Travel of Green Bay.

129 BAY ST, SAULT STL MARIE, ON, CANADA P6A 6Y2 1-8002429207 I Favorite places Silver screen travels: The greatest travel-inspiring movies, from Budget Travel magazine: 1. "The Sound of Music," 1965 (Salzburg, Austria) 2. "A Room With a View," 1985 (FlorenceEngland) 3. "Lost in Translation," 2003 (Tokyo) 4. "Amelie," 2001 (Paris) 5.

"Before Sunrise," 1995 (Vienna) 6. "Out of Africa," 1985 (Kenya) 7. "The Lord of the Rings," 2001-03 (New Zealand) 8. "When Harry Met Sally," 1989 (New York City) 9. "Moonraker," 1979 (France, Venice, Brazil, Guatemala, space) 10.

Tu Mama Tambien," 2001 (Mexico) Chicago Tribune Cruising the Net Plan a trip around North Carolina country music festival: Start planning now for a vacation this coming spring in the northwest corner of North Carolina, when the Appalachian wildflowers will be blooming and one of the region's top music festivals will be drawing top mountain music artists. Some of the best bluegrass music around will be on stage at Merlefest www.merlefest.org named for the late Eddy Merle Watson, the guitar-playing son of bluegrass legend Doc Watson. The event is set for April 28 to May 1 at Wilkesboro, N.C. Artists on the schedule include Loretta Lynn, Rodney Crowell, the Chieftains and Ricky Skaggs. Learn more about the festival's surroundings in Wilkes County www.wilkesnc.org by clicking on "Guide to the Area" and exploring their virtual tours.

A short drive west of Wilkesboro, get on the Blue Ridge Parkway www.nps.govblri which threads travelers through some of the most scenic country in the East, connecting the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain national parks in Virginia and North Carolina. Pick up more information from the Blue Ridge Parkway Association www.blue ridgeparkway.org including detailed maps, information on trails and a calendar that will tell you what wildflowers might be blooming when you visit. Due west of Wilkesboro and the parkway, the city of Boone www.visitboonenc.com is a convenient central point for your travels after you take in Merlefest. There's a section of "Things to Do," such as a visit to Grandfather Mountain, and a calendar of events including the opening of trout season on April 2. The Associated Press AN HOUR NORTH or MACKINAW www.agawacanyontourtrain.com (Heart of Europe A 1 5-day tour of Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, i.A Italu Cuiit7erhnH A Franrp hv Imaae Tours x- Save jumc nutntiuit y-v-iw perCOUplC Sept 06 departure Austin Straubel Milwaukee Outagamie Full Advance Full Advance Full Advance Destination coach purchase coach purchase coach purchase Atlanta $998 $236 $498 $208 $998 $241 Boston $778 $258 $778 $249 $778 $250 Dallas $1,162 $309 $974 $228 $796 $268 Denver $1,162 $309 $718 $248 $1,546 $284 Las Vegas $1,098 $344 $648 $264 $1,098 $356 Los Angeles $1,098 $370 $726 $264 $1,098 $348 New York $648 $228 $787 $228 $638 $199 Orlando $630 $248 $564 $198 $878 $288 Phoenix $992 $366 $798 $354 $992 $348 San Francisco $1,094 $334 $708 $258 $1,094 $348 Seattle $1,098 $341 $708 $348 $1,098 $478 Tampa $634 $244 $584 $198 $878 $238 Washington D.C.

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Tauxe teases his sister, Lisa Tauxe, a geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, who got hepatitis from a trip to Africa. She doesn't know what did it: the miniature zoo in the water she swallowed while windsurfing in a polluted bay or the raw sea urchin she had afterward. "It walked across my plate as I was trying to eat it. It's sushi. It's stupid.

I don't do that anymore," she said. Flirting with danger The boom in extreme travel and adventure tourism. has some health experts worried. "Many people feel that their lives are overly routine, overly bureaucratized, that they're constrained by institutions," said Lori Holyfield, a University of Arkansas sociologist who has studied people who seek ultimate experiences like rock-climbing in remote places. "They don't want real danger, just the feel of flirting with it." But they often get more than they bargained for.

A Whitewater rafting expedition in Costa Rica in 1996 gave five rafters leptospirosis, a serious disease that can lead to organ failure. It's caused by rodent urine contaminating water. A bigger outbreak of it occurred in 2000, when more than 100 people from around the world competed in an endurance event called EcoChal-lenge in Malaysia. Health officials at first had trouble figuring out what sickened them because of the endless possibilities: competitors had swum in rivers, crawled through bat-dung-encrusted caves and hiked through jungles where everything from malaria to tsetse flies were present. Adventurous hunters and fishers have to worry too.

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