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Turn In Your Passport Application To Win a Free Trip to Chile
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Do you love wine and travel? If so, here's a travel contest that's tailor-made for you: The Wines of Chile Experience. (Via Gadling.) If you win, you'll get two free flights to Chile (one for you, one for a guest), as well as five nights of accommodations at a boutique hotel or winery, food and drink, activities and transportation within Chile. The total value of the prize package is "not to exceed $15,000," so there should be enough of a…

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Fly to Japan for Free With Your US Passport
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Japan has come to depend on its tourist industry, but after the earthquake/tsunami one-two punch that leveled parts of the coast and damaged the Fukushima nuclear reactor, the number of foreign visitors dropped by 50-60 percent (via NileGuidance). Since then, the Japanese travel industry has come up with several promotions aimed at combating the negative perception of the country that still lingers even today. For example, in July, a group of Japanese resorts held a contest to send one lucky…

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Halloween: Expedite Your Passport to Stay in a Haunted Hotel
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Want to do something really special for Halloween this year? Now that popular reality shows follow "paranormal investigators" around, ghost-hunting is all the rage, but do you really want to spend your Halloween shivering in an abandoned building in the hopes that something will materialize? Stay at one of these reputedly haunted hotels, and you can enjoy your creature comforts while you try to catch a glimpse of supernatural visitors. Just remember: you can check in, but you may never…

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Get a Passport to Be Inspired by Iceland This Winter
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Winter is traditionally low season in Iceland, but the "Inspired by Iceland"  campaign aims to fix that. To entice more tourists to visit Iceland during the cold winter months, the campaign encourages Icelanders to open up their homes to tourists eager to have locals show them around the country.  It has received support from no less a public figure than Iceland's prime minister,  Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who posted a video on the Inspired by Iceland website encouraging others to take part.…

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“Not That Good” Samaritan Returns Lost Passport, Keeps Camera
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At first, it seemed like an inspirational Hallmark story, the type of thing that restores your faith in humanity. A British couple, Jeremy and Sally Weaving, lost a bag at the airport containing valuables like money, a digital camera and Mr. Weaving's passport. They despaired of finding it again, only to wake up one morning to see a package on their doorstep containing the missing bag. In an interview with the Daily Echo, Mrs. Weaving described how delighted they were…

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Should You Be Required to Sign for a New Passport?
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After you apply for your new passport, all that's left is the waiting. If you requested regular service, that's about six weeks of checking the mail obsessively for an envelope from the State Department. Passports are sent back via regular mail with a tracking number, but you don't have to sign for it. So, if you're not home when it's delivered, there's usually not a problem...unless, of course, someone goes through your mailbox. That's what Snehlata Oberoi of San Francisco…

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Will You Need a Passport To Take a Domestic Flight?
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At the moment, you only need a passport if you're leaving the country.  But in this age of increased security, will you ever need a passport to board a domestic flight? Eventually, yes. There is a possibility that you could need a passport to board  a domestic flight if you live in some states. That's because in 2005, the government passed the REAL ID Act, which created new standards that states were required to apply to their driver's license and…

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Twitter Finds Lost Passport on Amazing Race
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Lost passports are a perennial hazard for the teams of contestants on "The Amazing Race," now in its tenth year of production. This time around, a passport mishap almost ended one team's race before it could even begin. Kaylani Paliotta and her teammate Lisa Tilley stopped at a gas station en route to Los Angeles International Airport. Unfortunately, Kaylani's passport didn't make it out of the gas station.  The film crew, who saw the dropped passport, were unable to intervene-…

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