LETTERS

Passport advice and Rankin Ranch warning

From the Los Angeles Times
12:39 PM PDT, October 05, 2007

Get a passport; you won't regret it

In a Sept. 30 article, "Beat the Crowd: File for a Passport Now," writer Jane Engle concludes with this travel tip on figuring out current passport rules: "Just hire an attorney." Perhaps I could offer more useful advice to your readers: Just get a passport.

Rules on what's needed to cross land borders may change in the coming months, the numbers of passport applicants may change with the season, but one thing will remain constant: An American citizen with a passport will always have the right document for travel in and out of the United States.

For more information, see our website at www.travel.state.gov.

--Maura Harty, Assistant secretary for consular affairs, , State Department, Washington, D.C.

A ranch for a certain season

Several years ago, we went to Rankin Ranch in the off-season. We were the only ones there. We had reserved five nights. We stayed for one night.

Barbecue? Nope! Hayride? Nope! Great ranch-type meals? Nope! We were essentially on our own.

Our advice: If you do decide to go to Rankin Ranch, don't go in the off-season.

-- Donna and Ernest Salomon, Santa Barbara

Color him sad over foliage

"Hunt for Red October" [Sept. 30] with black-and-white photos? I feel let down.

--Vern Vanderpol, Pasadena

Where am I?

Should we take offense, order a drink, or what? That depends, of course, on where you think these words turned up.


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