30 - Sunday, March 13, (O88 - North Shore News TRAVEL Get organized...before travelling YOU DESERVE a holiday, especially after you've com- pleted all the preparations involved in organizing the thing. The amount of legwork and paperwork generated by a simple, three-week vacation can be ex- hausting. Planning and organization are essential. Imagine arriving at the airport to find that your tickets are at home, right where you hid them (third door, bottom shelf, behind the coffee pot). Or, can you imagine your disbelief when the customs inspec- tor informs you that your passport is expiring next week and “Sorry,---."” Perhaps this check list may re- mind you of some item, — better remembered right now rather than at 35,000 feet. Let's assume that you have chosen your destination and madc the necessary deposits. Naturally, you have consulted with your employers prior to this. Preliminaries: You'll need a_ loose-leaf notebook and a file. Start the notebook with a calendar — one of the ones distributed. by real estate companies that has plenty of note space. Instead of a proper file, I use the purse I intend to take. As 1 collect each vital piece of paper — tickets, insurance forms, travellers’ che- ques and the like — they go into the purse. Passports and Visas: If you have a passport, check the expiry. date. If you, don’t have one, ‘first find your birth certifi- cate. This may require your writing to Ontario so allow plenty of time. Next; go to the post office and get the proper form. Read it carefully. - Have your ‘picture taken’ by a to Friday, &:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and the cost is $25 cash or certified cheque. You can pick up your passport in three working day's. Some countries require advance warning of your intention to visit. They check you out and issue a permit to enter, also known as a visa. Your travel agent will provide this information, but allow lots of time. Visas are stamped into your passport so you must have a valid one to apply. Insurance: it is absolutely vital to buy a travel policy to cover any medical emergency while you’re away. Our B.C. medical is adequate for travel within Canada, but woefully inad- equate for other countries. These policies are generally teamed up with baggage insurance. Your travel agent can handle it or call your regular insurance agent. For frequent travellers 1 recom- mend a yearly policy ~- mine is automatically renewed every year and costs less than if | were to buy individual policies each time I left the country. 1 find that our normal house- hold insurance is adequate to cover 40%-50% OFF ROYAL PRINCESS ALASKA CRUISE May 31-10 NIGHTS "=" $1299 ro photographer” who advertises - “Passport Photos.”” : Fill in the form and have both | the form and pictures signed by-a proper, guarantor — the list of eligible persons is on the form. ‘Take the form, photos and birth certificate-.to #240-757 West Hastings, Vancouver, — ‘This must be hand delivered, not mailed. The office is open Monday CALL 926-4344 #106-100 PARE ROYAL SOUTH WEST VANCOUVER, BC. (Main Plaza Block Tower) HASTINGS TRAVEL YOUR TRAVEL CENTRE WITH “SWISS EFFICIENCY” TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS - WORLDWIDE FOR BUSIMIESS OR PLEASURE * 746 We HASTINGS | VANCOUVER, B.C. [VOC IAS cau: 689-0461 * Prompt — Personalized — Multilingual Service § VERENA FURRER ~ Owner -- Here's your chance to get rid of those _ boots that seem to have shrunk a half size or that pack which just ~ isn’t big enough anymore or : Maybe pick up some " experienced rain gear. ; The CO-OP's Spring 88 Out- * door Gear Swap is the answer. Call 872-7858 for more details. P.S. you don’t have to be a Co-op member to participate. Win a Pentax Binocular When you come to the Gear Swap be sure to enter to win a Pentax Mini Binocular to be given away at 2 PM the day of the Gear Swap. No purchase necessary to win. Binocular is courtesy of Pentax Canada Inc. = | MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT Gear Swap Sunday, March 20, 10 AM-2 PM 428 W. &t Vancouver $n the small amount of baggage | carry. Vaccinations and Preventatives: Very few countries have man- datory vaccination requirements. wise Barbara McCreadie oes a af 5 fa Check with Health and Welfare Canada if you are going toa some- where weird and they'll also tell you if there’s any shot you ought to have for your own protection. This includes malaria medication. {tis also wise ta consult: your doctor and have both your tetanus and polio immunizations brought up to date. ‘The very cautious traveller may also want to be immunized for typhoid fever, but | must admit I've let my shots lapse. Your Health: While you're bugging your doc- tor about tetanus and polio, how about giving in and having that physical you should have had two years ago? It’s a good deal better to catch any latent problems here than try- ing to explain your condition in Polish. Do you require any prescription medication? If so, purchase more than enough to see you through your vacation and file it with your passport. Have your doctor write out the prescription in generic terms in case you might have to fill it overseas. Staple the prescription, along with the one for your eye- glasses, on the back cover of your passport. Denture wearers tell Seo Choose Page 32 me that 6«My brother tells me he frequently gets f “compliments on his year-old Bomber, while ¥skiing near Vancouver. “The more | wear it, the better it fooks!” he says. ‘ GARDENERS Mark Cullen’. of Weall and Cullen Nurseries, has asked us to design and manufacture for them the world’s best gardening pants. If you, dear Gardener- Reader, have some ideas for these pants, = : please mail me a drawing. The three best GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE BOMBER idoas earn free Cullen Gardeners Pants. JACKET: we sii@ have some at lest year's prices (sbout $950.00, depend- ing on siza). THE SAD NEWS: the cost of the shear- ling and the feather meeps going up... Alex Tilley] f *Matk hosts CAC-TV's gardenmg show “Anything Grows”. 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