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| Thursday, January 12, 2006
Greetings Traveler, The New Year is well under way and there's lots happening in the Southeast. Upcoming events include the Best of Atlanta Party, a Gumbo Cook-Off in Destin, the Florida Keys Seafood Festival, the Winter Parrothead Festival in Myrtle Beach and many more exciting festivals taking place in your favorite destinations!
Spring Break 2006 is just around the corner and if you're going to Panama City Beach for Spring Break, you'd better make your plans now! Visit our Spring Break section to find everything you need to plan your trip! Don't forget to visit the message boards and post your questions about Spring Break in PCB. This year will bring about many new things for TripSmarter.Com, including a new look, new features, new travel deals and new ways for travelers to interact and make the most of planning their trip online! We've also added three new columns to our newsletter! Randy's Ramblings, Wayne's Weather and Margit's Top Five are monthly editorials submitted by your favorite personalities from the Tourist Network TV Stations. Don't miss these great new additions and the chance to get a little inside info from locals who know the scoop! Enjoy! - The TripSmarter.Com Webteam P.S. Time is running out to enter our Myrtle Beach Giveaway! You can register once per day until Feb.28th, when we will select the winner of a Spectacular Golf Vacation on the Grand Strand!
In This Issue: • HOT Travel Deals - featured hotels from your favorite destinations! • Myrtle Beach Giveaway - Win a Spectacular Golf Vacation for 2! • TripSmarter.Com Travel Community: Latest Forum Posts • Margit's Top Five: Top Five Picks for Key West Character • Wayne's Weather: Wish I'd Been Wrong • Randy's Ramblings: A New Year for Club Hour and the Southeast • Crescent City Comeback: New Orleans Updates • Upcoming Special Events • Join our VIP Travel Deals email list! • Look Before You Leave: Tourist Network TV Stations LIVE Online! • Link to Us & WIN • User Survey: WIN FREE STUFF! • SmartTips Email Archive 
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Latest Forum Posts:Sushi Rocks (Destin) Where to Eat in Destin Where to Stay in Destin Where to Stay for Key West Spring Break College Spring Break Dates Spring Break March 11-19 Official Thread Comparing Panama City to Cancun Open Now! - New Orleans Businesses That Have Reopened Top Five Picks for Key West Character By Margit Bisztray, Food Critic It’s High Season in the beautiful Keys, and the weather is perfect. Up north, they’re shoveling snow, but down here, it’s all about bare feet in the sand and a warm breeze off the water. This is quite simply the best time of the year in these parts, and visitors are soaking it in. Key West is loved for so many different reasons ––– its natural beauty, its history, its fun loving spirit and its fascinating diversity. Now, defining what’s uniquely Key West or what’s the essence of Key West is kind of like defining art: hard to explain, but you know it when you see it. There’s a certain combination of sights, smells and sensations that captures what this place is all about, and I believe that’s what really keeps people coming back, and what people really love about being here. It’s those particular Key West Moments that couldn’t be anywhere else. This season’s pick for Top Five in Key Wests focuses on places where those Key West moments are most likely to happen. Some of these choices might surprise you, but try them: you might end up with a wonderful, Key West surprise, and that’s the best souvenir of all. Click for more! Wish I'd Been Wrong By Wayne Gentry, Meteorologist “Gee, I sure wish I had a job where I could be wrong half the time and still keep my job.” If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I’d be rich. We weathermen learn to live with jabs from our audiences… even though stockbrokers and sports writers only dream of approaching our accuracy rate. For many in the Meteorological community, the hurricane season of 2005 provided some degree of redemption for our scientific abilities… and we all wish we HAD been wrong. While the record breaking Tropical season in the Atlantic (Hurricane ZETA?) and resulting damage ruled the headlines, the Pacific basin was actually more tame than average. This belies the belief that all of this year’s Atlantic turmoil was driven by heat alone. And here in the good ‘ol USA, we had no shortage of significant weather stories. Snow pack issues in the Southwestern US, near record drought in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains, and record precipitation in the Northeast. But, perhaps most importantly, 2005 goes into the books as one of the warmest years since 1895. Click for more!
A New Year for Club Hour and the Southeast! By Randy Peterson, Host of Club Hour Okay.... the hangovers have passed, the blurred vision cleared and the resolution list has already been disposed of. It’s mid-January and Club Hour is gearing up for another incredible year... but before we head into ’06, let’s take a look back at my favorite spots from ‘05. Beer Man for a Day - Come along as I took over the beer route and "played" deliveryman for the day! Every city has one... and in the Florida Panhandle it’s the Band Sheds... a place for aspiring musicians to come together and practice, to meet, to mingle, to learn. This playground for the musically fit is owned by Mr. Clark... a strict, straight-forward man who has won the hearts of these future rockers! Ahhh… Key West...with the wild Tom Luna! No one is quite certain what may come from his knowledge bank and when I sat across the table from him one afternoon in Key West, I learned everything I never really wanted to know about the fascinating world of Bocce. Click for more!
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