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  • New Steamboat Cruise Line Adopts New Name

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    (1:20 p.m. EDT) –A mere three months into its first cruise season, The Great American Steamboat Co., which in April launched the newly refurbished American Queen, announces today it will change its name. Effective July 1, the one-ship cruise line will be called American Queen Steamboat Co. Though the company spent a great deal of…

  • Riverboat cruising returns to the Mississippi with American Queen

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    By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY As the American Queen paddle wheeler steams toward the city early one morning last week, all eyes turn toward Richard and Suzanne Martinez, who are strolling onto the boat’s forward deck resplendent in antebellum finery. She’s a sweet Southern belle in hoop skirt hoisting a floral parasol. He’s a riverboat…

  • Travel Tidbits – Mississippi, Disney dining, Portland and more

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    ‘The Help’ puts tourist spotlight on Mississippi Fans of The Help, the bestselling 2009 novel and new movie about the fictional lives of black housekeepers and the white women who employ them in 1960s Mississippi, are getting some help of their own in exploring the story’s real-life settings… USA Today   Disney dining gets a…

  • American Cruise Lines’ Queen of the Mississippi debut in New Orleans

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    On Wednesday, March 7th, American Cruise Lines announced its brand new 150-passenger paddlewheeler, the Queen of the Mississippi, as it nears completion 10-weeks ahead of schedule. Last week, at Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Maryland the 23-ton, 28 foot-wide paddlewheel that was built special for the new riverboat was lifted and installed. “This marks an important step…

  • Things to do in: Nashville, TN

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      Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum        Ryman Auditorium        Opryland Hotel Gardens        Grand Ole Opry       Top 5 Travel Attractions, Nashville (Tennessee) – Travel Guide       To plan your trip today: All About Travel 6104 Northwest 63 Oklahoma City, OK 73132 415.384.3880

  • 10 Tips for All Travelers

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    1.   Make sure you have a signed, valid passport (and visas, if required).  Also, before you go, fill in the emergency information page of your passport! 2.   Read the Consular Information Sheets (and Public Announcements or Travel Warnings, if applicable) for the countries you plan to visit. (See “Consular Information Program” section for more details.)…