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EcoReport is written and edited by Evelyn Kanter, a professional journalist with a lifetime of experience a magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and reporter, and guidebook author and editor -- all focusing on travel, automotive, lifestyle, the environment, and your rights as a consumer.
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Travel Advisory: US Passport Fees Going Up
Remember, you’ll need a passport if you go on a cruise that sails beyond U.S. territorial waters — and most of them do. Even if you have no plans to disembark in Cancun, St. Thomas, or Vancouver, you’ll need a passport to board. I needed to show my passport to board the spectacular new Norwegian Epic mega-ship over July Fourth weekend, even though it was a preview inaugural cruise for journalists and travel agents, and there was no port stop whatsoever, except New York City.
And if you need your passport back faster than the three to six weeks it takes, that will cost you an additional $60 to expedite. A few months ago it cost me $60 and two trips to the U. S. Passport office in New York City to get extra pages — one to give them my passport, then to pick it up the next day.
It’s bad enough the airlines are raising the cost of flying by charging us $25 to $50 to check a bag, now the federal government is adding to the cost of a family reunion, summer vacation, college year abroad, or any other type of travel beyond US borders or taking a cruise, by increasing fees for a U.S. Passport.
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Where’s Evelyn? January 2012
Israel
December 2011
Courcheval, France
November 2011
New Zealand
Los Angeles Auto Show
October 2011
Stuttgart, Black Forest
September 2011
Saratoga, NY
June 2011
Pittsburgh
Washington, DC
Niagara Falls
Hershey, Penna
PRSA Travel & Tourism Conf.
San Antonio, Speaker
April 2011
Fiji Islands, Los Angeles
ASJA Conference, NYC
Panelist on Writing Apps
March 2011
Anchorage, Alaska
Skiing at Alyeska
February 2011
Vancouver Island,
Vancouver, Whistler
Where Evelyn Was in 2010
New Car Launches
Detroit, Nashville,
San Francisco, Miami
Los Angeles Auto Show
Porsche Test Track, Leipzig
Travel Destinations
Germany -- Munich,
Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin
Norwegian Epic
Inaugural Cruise
Cuba--Havana,
Cienfuegos, Trinidad,
Santa Clara
Dubai
Thailand --
Bangkok, Chang Mai
Beaver Creek, Colorado
Speaking Engagements
Newport, R. I.
Speaker, SATW Meeting
Las Vegas, Speaker
Alternative Fuel Conference
Book Expo America, NYC
Author Book Signing
Peaceful Places NYC
My new travel guidebook
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