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TRAVEL MAILBAG CATCH-UP ;
Drive or fly to Regina reunion? |

"VE BEEN neglecting the mailbag for the past
few weeks so here 1s a sample of the latest

travel questions.

DEAR BARBARA:
QUESTION:

My family is having a big
reunion this spring in Regina
to celebrate our yrand
parents’ fiftieth wedding an
niversary. We've planned to
attend and take our two
children, both under two |
know it won't be an easy trip
whatever way we travel
either by car or by air but
we'd hke to get some advice
to help us make up our minds
which way to go

We'd need a car once we
arrived in Regina but renting
one shouldn't be a problem
Do car rental firms provide
infant seats?

If we decided to drive. we
have considered) driving
straight through so that the
kids would spend a good part
of the trip sleeping

Could you please give us
some of your thoughts on the
subject?

ANSWER:

For openers, I'd leave the
kids at home What jov will
two infants get out of a big
reunion? What tun will vou
have trying to care for the
kids in the midst of all the
festivities?

If you've made up your
minds to take the kids let's
look at car travel tirst
There’s no way vou should
take children in a car unless
they are restrained in proper
infant seats Have vou tallied
the driving time to Regina’
Better re-think your idea of

driving straight) through
none of you could handle
that |oocertainly hope vou

weren't intending to det the
kids rattle around loose in the

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were vou

| wouldn't even consider
domy that trip wath onfangs
unless | stretched i out over
four or five davs

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yourselves, sour kids,
family und vour. fellow
travellers a big tavor and
leave the kids at home
DEAR BARBARA:

Just a note to tell you that
we read your column avidly
and | have chipped so many

travel-
wise

your

by Barbara
McCreadie

of them that if vou ever need
a copy let me know Shame
on vou for not keeping them
yourself! Why vou could just
have them bound and. sell
them as a book

Anyway, what | wanted to
tell vou about was our recent
trip to Hawan 1 had
remembered that vou had
quoted a tire chef saving that
he would mever take @ room
higher than the tifth
and | could see the bopas

When we atiived in Maui.

floor

we found that our conde was
on the erphrety theo Hos
below the fifth as we tad re
quested We balked and
refused to aeceph it and: the
management eventualts
found WS cre on the Neco
Hoorn

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eatuh tire BUT atter the bip
storm the power was out fo.
more than a day. We vould
manage the stairs to the se
cond floor but if we'd been
on the eighth we'd have had
to sleep in the lobby!

Now, isn’t that a good
reason to read your column?
And it you ever write that
book, put me down tor the
first copy!

ANSWER:

I've made a tew halt-
hearted stabs at a book but |
get easily sidetracked Nfavbe
someday when | vet tired of
travelling Fil sit down and
write a book

We had a similar ex-
perience a few vears ago on
Maur but that storm wiped
out the power tor three days.
Our condo was on the ninth
floor, Of course. that was
betore | did the interview
with the fire chiet'
QUESTION:

My ex-husband 1s British
and wants to take our [wo
children to Britain this sum.
mer ta xistt his parents [om
quite wormed - he’s never had
alot of patience with the kids
and at 10 and & 1 think thes
are 100 young to be that tar
trom home with someone
who is apt to pet cross and
impatient with them

Also, I've got a hunch that
he’s not working now and
might be planning to remain
in England

ANSWER: (This was nota
letter but a phone call from a
distressed mother )

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TRAVEL |
TRAINING CENTRE

1 explained that the only
one who could help with a
problem

cases Of child snatching by
estranged parents her
cern was

facts

that

her husband's

home and parents were in

of this kind ts a Britain and that he appeared
- and the sooner the to be out of work. Many
parents have lost their

children in just this way and

the well-publicized

con-
valid. I was par-
concerned by the

Spite ol

custody
legal manoeuvres
A very similar thing hap-

Holida
Office

it looks to me to be the devil's
own yob to get them back in
orders and

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pened to my cousin when she
allowed her ex-husband to
take the children on a visil to
the USA. She got her kids
back but after a few months
with a father who “‘lacked
patience’ the kids were ner-
vous wrecks. It took a long
time to undo some ol the
damage - | doubt it any ot
them will ever forget

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