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Tips for Preparing Teens for Overseas Travel This Summer

Encourage culturally sensitive and appropriate dress. For example, short shorts and tank tops don’t travel well in most developing countries.

(MILL VALLEY, CA.) - An international travel company offers advice for teens offers tips for families sending their children internationally this summer.

“Health precautions, securing documents, packing and communications are at the top of every traveler’s list. There are so many things parents can do in advance of a trip to help things go smoothly,” says Scott von Eschen, President of Adventures Cross-Country.

Mexico Medical Tourism Thrives

A large percentage of dental customers are from the U.S.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Price. Quality. Technology. That was the triple message Dr. Octavio Gonzalez had for attendees of the Medical Matters 2014 conference held earlier this week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The veteran dentist was among dozens of exhibitors at an event catering to expatriates, snowbirds and tourists in the Mexican coastal city.

A New Year`s Eve Tale from Sunny Phuket

If we all really set our minds to it, we should be able to do something about changing things in 2014, shouldn’t we?

(PHUKET, Thailand) - Yesterday, I exchanged a few words, in English, with what my keen ear detected to be a Russian woman who was waiting in a KFC queue with a pretty little girl of about five.

A little later, the girl must have asked her mother to take her to the washroom, because they disappeared for a few minutes and returned just as I reached the front of the queue.

Baja Mega-Resorts Under International Scrutiny

The mega-resorts in question include Entre Mares, Paraiso del Mar, Playa Espiritu and Cabo Cortes, the latter of which was cancelled during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Mexican and international environmental organizations are praising the decision of the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to move forward in an investigation of large tourist developments on the Gulf of California.

In response to a citizen petition filed by 11 Mexican and international green groups, the CEC has requested that the Pena Nieto administration respond to complaints that Mexican and international environmental laws were not followed in the approval of four tourist developments by the Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources.

BURMA: Three Arrested for Attempt to Bomb Rangoon Religious Buildings

Several of the bomb blasts occurred in Rangoon. One explosion happened in the upscale Traders Hotel, where one American tourist was wounded.

(RANGOON) - Police said they arrested three men last week who were preparing to bomb religious buildings in Rangoon. Reportedly, the targets in Burma’s biggest city were mosques.

Min Aung, a police colonel at the Home Affairs Ministry, told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday that the suspects were Burmese nationals, adding that two suspects were ethnic Arakanese from western Burma.

Drag the Gut 2013 was a Hot Time in the City

Just like the good ole days, Mac's "Gut" was roaring with action all weekend. [SLIDESHOW BELOW]

(MCMINNVILLE, OR) - The old Mack Theatre sign and marquee were lit up once again and the sights and sounds of slow moving cars came alive on Third Street as the Dragging the Gut Festival took over the town of McMinnville for the fourth year in a row.

Hundreds of cars took to the streets and thousands of onlookers lined the sidewalks to watch the show, and what an incredible parade of eye candy on wheels it was.

Mexico`s Rich Flourish

The Mexican rich bucked a worldwide trend in which the number of wealthy individuals declined slightly by 0.3 percent from 2007 to 2012.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - A Great Recession? Not for Mexico’s rich.

In fact, the number of people in the Mexican Republic defined as wealthy by the corporate research outfit WealthInsight grew by almost a third between late 2007 and late 2012, a time when high unemployment and hard times had most people scrambling to make ends meet.

A Paean to the Hurricane Industry... A Story of Survival

The Republican platform promises to do better. I don’t think they have done so bad. Everybody’s broke but them. - Will Rogers

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and upwardly mobile private equity companies (a.k.a. brain capital) have tough sledding (no double entendre intended) in the Sunshine State.

It's too hot for heavy industry, too swampy for land plays, and because of the demographics just mentioned, old codgers tend to impede the “headwinds,” the “catalysts”...

Timeshares: Know What You Are Buying

Before buying a timeshare, calculate the total cost...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Mr. Smith received a mailer -- "3 Free Nights in Waikiki-Spend 3 nights in 4 star hotel-no purchase necessary."

The mailer directed him to call the listed telephone number "to schedule your short presentation from ABC Resort."

Special Assignment: Nevada Ghost Towns, Revisiting Our Father`s Favorite Haunts

A trip to Nevada to revive old family memories....

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - My brothers, Ken and Rick King, along with my nephew, Nory King and I, are heading to Nevada to uphold an important King family tradition, that is exploring old Nevada ghost towns.

This weekend we will visit a number of locations near Virginia City, and we will stay at a hotel reputed to be haunted by the ghosts of miners.