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Travel books
Summer is almost here. I think they're saying it's going to start on Friday. With that in mind I know many folks are busy planning travel vacations so we are busy updating our travel book section. Every time we do this I am reminded of traveling in Costa Rica with an outdated guide book. I wanted to go rafting on the Pacuare River with a specific rafting company I had picked out from past experience. I got in a cab armed with an address from my book and gave it to the cab driver. Keep in mind here my Spanish isn't that great; I like to say I know just enough to get myself in trouble. So I'm pretty sure the cab driver tells me he knows the address, he knows the company, and he knows the company is not located at that address. We go to the address anyway since neither of us know what else to do, but we do stop along the way about a million times to ask a million other cab drivers where this company really is located. No one knows and we get to the address to discover it's not there. After resisting the urge to throw the useless book out the window, we persevere and give it a second try with another rafting company. The story ends well. We find a place and get on the river the next day, but needless to say the experience left me with a deep mistrust of even slightly old travel books. Heidi has been going through our travel books and seeing which ones are most out of date and finding replacements. We've already received new travel books for the United States and Canada and will place an order for European travel this week. The next list is World travel. Unfortunately we can't do a complete overhaul of our travel section. Not only would it be a big chunk out of this year's adult book budget, some books haven't been updated. We are updating books before 2003 trying to have something on most every area. Please let us know if we don't have what you need to help plan your vacation and we'll try and get it!
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