29th June 2008

The City of Detroit Offers Visitors Two-Nation Advantage

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Detroit’s sister city of Windsor, Canada, is part of the region’s two-nation advantage. Just south of Detroit, Windsor is situated on an international border and is an important travel route for North American by rail, highway, air or waterway. Windsor is just a short trip from downtown Detroit by way of the Ambassador Bridge, the longest international suspension bridge in the world, or the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, which leads into the heart of downtown Windsor.

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29th June 2008

Enjoy relaxing train ride to Santa Barbara

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It’s hard to give up your car — especially in Southern California - but Santa Barbara will make it well worth your while to do so.

In fact, just put aside the benefits to the environment and look at the benefits to our own family: We saved on gas, vehicle wear and tear and on the frustration that always comes with a never-know-what-you’re-gonna-get drive through the L.A. freeway system. We got to try a new adventure, introduce our 8-year-old to rail travel and we packed a lot of sightseeing into a short two-day period.

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29th June 2008

Mendocino: California’s New England fishing village

by Cary Ordway

When the producers of TV’s Murder She Wrote were looking for the perfect stand-in for the fictional New England coastal village of Cabot Cove, they found it about 3,000 miles this side of the East Coast in the Northern California community of Mendocino. So it’s no mystery that, with all of the TV exposure, Mendocino has become one of the most popular getaways on the California coast.

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29th June 2008

Climbing the Great Wall of China

Author: Lola
So much has been written and published about the Great Wall of China but one thing is certain, if you travel to China without visiting this world renowned landmark, then your trip is incomplete.

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