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 January is Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month. Resorts in 34 states are participating with discounted lessons. It will cost you less to play in the snow in January. Nearly 100 top ski and snowboard resorts in 34 states are offering free or discounted ski and snowboard lessons during the annual Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month.
The theme of the 2011 program is “Humans Were Never Meant to Hibernate’. The overall theme theme for this national effort is to get children and adults outside this winter for fun and exercise on snow. The program ambassadors are Olympic Gold medal winner Bode Miller and ski icon Glenn Plake.
The National Ski Areas Association reports there were between ten and 12 million skiers and riders in the U.S. last year, and just under 60 million visits to ski resorts for skiing and snowboarding. And this season could be even better, considering the bounty of champagne powder that resorts received early in the season.
Virtually every resort in the United States is offering some kind of package for Learn to Ski or Snowboard month. See the next page for state-by-state highlights, from New England to the Rockies and Sierras:
NYC's Times Square is the world's biggest New Year's Eve celebration
Everybody agrees that the two top places to ring in a new year are Times Square in New York City and anywhere in Las Vegas. But there are some other interesting, free, even quirky New Year’s Eve celebrations in the USA, from [...]
The AAA estimates more than 92 million Americans will be on the road during the holiday period between December 23rd and January 2nd, 3.1% more than last year. There is a mind-boggling selection of iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry apps to download that will help make your driving and travel less stressful and perhaps [...]
Sometimes, green travel means saving the green in your wallet. Here are some deals, discounts and other special offers will help stretch your travel budget –
$20.11 hotel room at Red Roof Hotels — Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, Red Roof is offering all guests its nicest price ever with a $20.11 rate [...]
Airlines, hotels and tourism boards are giving away free vacations. Some current travel contests, sweepstakes and promotions often involve little more than signing up to the company’s Facebook page. Now that I have your attention –
Contests and sweepstakes for free vacations
Grand Velas Riviera Maya — the prize is a two night [...]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday budget travel deals
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are not limited to department stores such as Target, Walmart and Toys R Us. Hotels and airlines are offering spectacular budget travel deals, too. Travel bargain hunters must make your reservation on Friday, November 26th or Monday November 29th [...]
 If you think the steepest streets in the USA are in San Fransisco, you would be wrong. A list of the ten steepest streets by an outfit called Infographics rates the Waipio Road in Hawaii, in the historic Waipio Valley, as the steepest, at an astounding 45% angle. And according to this list, Los Angeles has more steep streets than San Francisco.
Be sure to drive, bicycle or walk carefully on any of them, and if you park, be absolutely, positively sure to engage the emergency parking brake before you get out of the car.
The entire list of the top 10 steepest streets in the USA is on the next page…..
A video of riding a Segway up Baldwin St. is on the page after that ……
There is a mind-boggling number of iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry applications on the market to download to help make your driving and travel experience more user friendly. So which ones are best?
These are my picks for the five best travel apps for holiday road trips, to help keep you save and get [...]
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