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AIG insurance could be an important part of your life. If you’ve had the foresight to secure travel insurancebefore you travel it may save your financial health when “bad things happen to good people”.

Do yourself a favor and check it out before you travel. Once you experience a loss it’s too late to protect yourself. AIG insures over 6 million travelers every year against trip cancellation, travel interruptions & delays, lost baggage and the ever frighful emergency medical and health expenses.

AIG is one of the worlds largest and important insurance companies around. Even the government recognizes this! Check out their “10 Reasons to Purchase Travel Insurance” and decide for yourself!

Recently announced by American Airlines is a deal to the Walt Disney World Resort that includes hotel savings for up to 50% when you book a three day vacation including air, hotel and Disney tickets. Also part of the deal is the transportation package that includes airport transfers and luggage delivery. This add-on is fast becoming a wonderful treat for enjoying a kid friendly trip that relieves a common hassle for traveling parents.

The savings on the Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort from is about $215 from Chicago and $348 from Dallas. Additionally there are savings for the Disney’s All-Star Music Resort and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge stays.

You’ll also want to book this the AAVacations.com website in order to get an extra 1,000 AAdvantage bonus miles on this already nice deal.

You won’t find any fleabag hotels with the Sandals name on them. These resorts are top quality in every respect. Now is the time to start thinking again about that next vacation that you ‘do deserve’ and need to keep functioning in this stressful world.

If you are ready to book a trip now, there is even a special deal for you. You could get up to 2 nights free, fly free and save as much as 35% if you book by September 4th.

If that’s too soon for you, then you can check out their “Best Deal of the Month” to find a new and different destination. Variety ‘is the spice of life’ and treating yourself to a luxury retreat at a savings is a reward you actually need.

Macau is the gambling destination in Asia.  Start your exploration of Macau with this recap of the basic elements of the area including the History, Orientation, Information, Getting Around, Eating And Drinking, Best Of, Entertainment, Getting To Macau And Getting Away, Listings, Arrival, Explore Macau and Hotels in Macau.

As a major spot of entertainment the prices are relatively  reasonable too. For example, recent hotel prices included the Grand Emperor Hotel Macau starting at $125.52 USD, the Best Western Hotel Sun Macau from $56.95 USD and the popular Wynn Macau from $229.01 USD.

Cheapoair is a travel portal that specializes in airfares, but it also gives you hotels, cars, rail, vacations and their Top 25 Deals list. They also have activities and local tour information for top travel cites and areas like New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Orlando, Hawaii, Mexico,  Canada, Europe, Paris, London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Madrid, Dublin, Spain, Italy, France, Amsterdam, the Caribbean, Bahamas, Jamaica, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic as well as other destinations including Costa Rica, Rio de Janeiro, Egypt, Beijing, Sydney and Thailand. 

Some of their other travel information resources include Airline 800 Numbers and Websites, Airline Codes, Airplane In-Flight Amenities, Domestic Airline Baggage Policies, International Airline Baggage Policies, Domestic Airline Web Check-in and International Airline Web Check-in for some quick and useful information.

You’ll also find great travelers tips including important travel links, TSA permitted and prohibited items list, a travel glossary and added info on luggage for your trip. For the savings minded tourist, you’ll definitely want to review their Cheap Weekend Getaways, Seasonal Travel Deals, Student Airfares, Family Travel and Romantic Travel sections.

Want to get away to Singapore for only $548? If you’ve got 20,000 NW perk miles you can take advantage of their special offer. You could also choose travel to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka or Taipei.

The rules are that tickets must be purchased no later than October 12, 2008, you need an advance purchase of 14 days, outbound travel is allowed between September 3 and December 13, 2008, all travel must be completed by December 18, 2008, travel must begin and end in the US 48 states but its valid for up to four passengers per reservation.

If you’ve only got 10,000 miles your price would be $658. Not bad!

Going through airport security with a laptop should be a little easier with the Transportation Security Administration’s new ‘checkpoint friendly’ rules. The TSA x-ray screeners are supposed to know what the insides of a laptop look like and can see any ‘irregularities’. The new see through x-ray friendly bags will let you keep your laptop inside its protective covering.

When manufactures come out with the bags they will have a ‘laptop-only section’ that will allow the computer sections and to ‘lay flat’ on the belt as it goes through the x-ray. If the bag doesn’t give the screener a clear look at the inside of the machine, or if it looks ‘funny’ it will be screened manually.

To get through security without a hassle you’ll need to keep everything out of the ‘laptop-only section’. You’ll especially have to careful to keep any ‘metal snaps, zippers or buckles’ away from that area.

The TSA even gives a basic diagram of what is allowed.
Now let’s hope they change the rules to prevent ‘snooping’ inside the computer itself.

Try somethig different, why not ”Learn to fly a plane”. It is easy to find a place to learn to fly. There are flying schools all over the country. Here’s just a few of some of the aviation summer camps:

Air Zoo Summer Camps
6151 Portage Road
Portage, MI 49002
Ph: 269/382-6555 or 866/524-7966

Castle Challenger Learning Center Foundation
3460 Challenger Way
Atwater, CA 95301
Ph: 209/726-0296
The Culver Educational Foundation
1300 Academy Road, Culver IN 46511-1291
Ph: 574/842-7000

St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School
4401 West Braddock Road
Alexandria, Virginia 22304
703/212-2741 Middle School Office or 703/212-2706 Admissions

Space Experience Camp
UW-Green Bay Outreach & Adult Access
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311
Ph: 920/465-2111

Space Flight Adventure Camp
7290 Enterprise Street
Wallops Island, Va. 23337
Ph: 757/824-3800 or 866/75-SPACE • Fax: 757/824-6207

Pine Tree Camps
Lynn University
3601 North Military Trail
Boca Raton, Fla. 33431
Ph: 561/237-7310

Embry-Riddle’s Summer Academy
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach, FL Residential Campus
600 S. Clyde Morris Boulevard
Daytona Beach, Fla. 32114-3900

Outreach Programs Office CII
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Suite 4011
110 8th Street
Troy, N.Y. 12180-3590
Ph: 518/276-8351

Camp Redwood
576 Rock Cut Rd
Walden, N.Y. 12586
Ph: 845/564-1180 • Fax: 845/564-1128

Astro Camp
26800 Saunders Meadow Road
P. O. Box 3399
Idyllwild, Calif. 92549
Ph: 951/659-6062 • Fax: 951/659-9843

KLC School Partnerships
Science Adventures
Ph: 800/472-4362

Experience the West Camp
Westminster College
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Office: Gore 216A
Ph: 801/832-2562 • Fax: 801/832-3106

Flight Camp
Randolph-Macon Academy
200 Academy Drive Front Royal, Va. 22630
Ph: 800/272-1172

EAA Young Eagles
P.O. Box 2683
Oshkosh, Wis. 54903-2683
Ph: 920/426-6114 or 877/806-8902

Florida Community College at Jacksonville Aviation Summer Camp
Cecil Center South (ACE)
13450 Lake Fretwell St.
Jacksonville, Fla. 32221
Contact: Maria Mojica
Ph: 904/317-3818

Camp Wings
9375 SE 110th St Rd
Belleview, FL 34420
Contact: Nick Hoefly
Ph: 352/875-5642

Prescott Summer Career Exploration Program
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Prescott, AZ Residential Campus
3700 Willow Creek Road
Prescott, Ariz. 86301-3720
Contact: Program Supervisor, Barbara Martens
Ph: 928/777-4200

US Space & Rocket Center
U.S. Space Camp / Aviation Challenge
One Tranquility Base
Huntsville, Ala. 35805
Ph: 800/637-7223

Sun ’n Fun Summer Day Camps
Florida Air Museum
Tom Davis Education Center
Ph: 863/644-0741

OU Sooner Flight Academy
College of Continuing Education
The University of Oklahoma
1928 Goddard Avenue
Norman, Okla. 73069
Ph: 405/325-1635 • Fax: 405/325-7089

Sporty’s Academy Summer Camp
Sporty’s/Clermont County Airport
Batavia, Ohio 45103
Eric Radtke
Ph: 513/735-9100 Ext. 352.

Cradle of Aviation Camp
Cradle of Aviation
One Davis Avenue
Garden City, N.Y. 11530
Ph: 516/572-4111 • Fax: 516/572-4065

The League of Extraordinary Aviators
Aviation Summer Camp
4151 W. Lindbergh Way
Chandler, Ariz. 85226
Ph: 480/785-5835 or 866/498-8276

Annual Summer Camp
Spirit Aviation, Inc.
Hawkins Field (HKS), 596 West Ramp, Jackson, Miss. 39209
Ph: 601/944-0333

MN Center for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence (MNCEME)
Aerospace Engineering Summer Camp 2008
Minnesota State University, Mankato, AH 328A
Armstrong Hall, Mankato, Minn. 56001,
Contact: Dr. Vojin R. Nikolic & Dr. Nihad E. Daidz
Ph: 507/389-6375 or 507/389-5430 • Fax: 507/389-1303

The Aviation Museum of Kentucky Aviation Camp
The Aviation Museum of Kentucky
333 Pepperhill Road
Lexington, Ky. 40502-3808

Carolinas Aviation Museum Discovery
4108 Minuteman Way
Charlotte, N.C. 28208
Contact: Marsha Hanna
Ph:704/359-8442 or 704/577-1334

You will want to check Delta’s weekly web fare specials for a deal like San Diego to Salt Lake City for only $59 each way. Go check out the religion or rock music. There’s more to Salt Lake than just the Mormons. It did host the 2002 Winter Olympics you know.

And don’t forget to preview the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) website for carry on restrictions. Keep the lines moving, OK?

If you’ve got someone meeting you there, the airport has 30 minute free parking in the short-term parking structure plus a ‘park & wait’ lot. Save on a hotel and stay with friends. Just reciprocate the favor later.

Anyway, Delta has one way fares from $59 to $1,149 that can save you lots of money. This current fare must be bought by tomorrow so go now.