Vacations are only just a click away, thanks to the internet. When I tell people that I’m a travel agent, some are in shock that we’re still around, and I get the impression that they think we became extinct around the time of the dinosaur. So why in the world do we still exist when just about anyone with a computer can book his own trip, right? Actually there’s a little more to it. Since money seems to be the driving force behind just about every decision, one of the top rea

What’s small and blue and opens the doors to the world? A passport. Of course, I’ve been traveling for so long that I can remember when all I needed to get into Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean was a driver’s license and a birth certificate. Those days are gone because now every single country outside of the United States requires us to have a valid passport as of January, 2007. I hear people moan and groan all the time about the paperwork they have to fill out (2 pages), the