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		<title>Travel iPhone app review: Guides to Los Angeles, San Francisco and more</title>
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Whether you call yourself a tourist or a traveler, everyone wants to know where the locals go when they step into a city for the first time. Travel guidebook publishers Not For Tourists have made that their specialty and crossed over to the iPhone app world this summer. They have Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalina Island: Avalon and Aurora hotels offer midweek getaway deals</title>
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Could you use a midweek time-out from all of the holiday madness? On Catalina Island — closer to us Southlanders than we sometimes realize — two island hotels are making it really easy, on you and your bank account, to indulge in a relaxing mini-vacation.
Deal: The &#8220;Holiday Getaway&#8221; package features a round-trip ride for two aboard the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fare war! Southwest, JetBlue, Virgin America starting $29 OW</title>
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Be thankful there is no shortage of cheap airfares this week. Southwest announced a 7-day Thanksgiving sale today with the snarky promo &#8220;Only turkeys charge for bags.&#8221; Fares out of Burbank (BUR) and Los Angeles (LAX) start at $59 each way. But wait, that&#8217;s not the only low-cost carrier offering a travel deal. JetBlue has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/fare-war-southwest-j-5889/</link>
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		<title>Free inflight Wi-Fi tip: Try before you buy on United, Delta</title>
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In-flight Wi-Fi is not so widespread yet that I expect it on every flight. I might want it on every flight from every carrier, but it is still a nice surprise to me when it&#8217;s available. So you can imagine how excited I was last week when not only did I find Gogo Inflight Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy: Flights plus 5 nights in Venice and Florence for $989</title>
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Enjoy art and architecture in Florence, and, when in Rome, explore everything from Mussolini-era landmarks to a good martini. La Jolla-based Adventure Vacations, which has been in business for around 30 years, is offering a fantastico travel package to these two intriguing, romantic Italian cities.
Deal: The &#8220;Treasures of Italy&#8221; package starts at $989 per person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/italy-flights-plus-5-5882/</link>
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		<title>Yalapa, Mexico: Stand-up paddle surf workshop in paradise</title>
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Stand-up paddle surfing. The first time you saw it at the beach you probably exclaimed, &#8220;What is THAT?&#8221; Or you rushed right out, rented a board and tried it yourself. Stand-up paddle surfers (or boarders) have been in the Los Angeles Times&#8217; Outposts blog in recent years for coming close to humpback whales in Australia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/yalapa-mexico-stand--5884/</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving travel: Black Friday hotel deals in Los Angeles &#038; Orange County</title>
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It&#8217;s not too late to book Thanksgiving travel for this weekend. Lucky for us Southern Californians, there are some Black Friday deals to be had right in our own backyard. Priceline&#8217;s travel &#8220;Ekspert,&#8221; Brian Ek, named his best shopping cities based on &#8220;the best &#8216;Name Your Own Price&#8217; hotel deals for Thanksgiving weekend.&#8221; In order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/thanksgiving-travel--5883/</link>
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		<title>San Diego: Whale-watching charters for the whole gang</title>
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Just in time for the holidays, the migration of the California gray whales will soon be viewable to us Southern Californians. Whale-watching season, which typically begins in mid-December and continues through February (though sometimes the season stretches to March or April), presents the perfect incentive to get out into the water and see  these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/san-diego-whale-watc-5879/</link>
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		<title>Water parks vie to open first U.S. looping water slide</title>
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The race is on to see which water park debuts America&#8217;s first looping water slide — a gravity-defying attraction that has awed Europe and Asia.
Noah&#8217;s Ark water park in Wisconsin and Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont both plan to unveil the combination water slide-thrill ride on Memorial Day Weekend 2010.
Canadian-based manufacturer WhiteWater confirmed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/aqualoop-water-slide-5875/</link>
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		<title>San Luis Obispo: $30 meals at 30 restaurants for Restaurant Month</title>
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Mushroom and sage gnocchi, followed by chipotle shrimp linguini, and, for good measure, a chunk of Meyer lemon buttermilk cheesecake. That&#8217;s what $30 (plus tax and tip) would have gotten you at Black Cat Bistro in Cambria in January.
And now San Luis Obispo County&#8217;s Restaurant Month &#8212; Jan. 2 to 31, 2010 &#8212; is getting [...]]]></description>
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