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USATODAY.com - These offbeat travel guides will send you on yo... http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2006-06-08-offbeat-gui... | | | | Classifieds: Home Enter a keyword and/or DESTINATIONNews Travel Money Sports Life Posted 6/8/2006 10:00 PM Updated 6/9/2006 11:03 AMTech Weather These offbeat travel guides will send Search you on your way with a chortle By Jayne Clark, USA TODAYIn a busy tourism season that likely will be as harrowing for Travel travelers as it is profitable for purveyors, we're already seeking Travel home comic relief. Fortunately, it came in the mail in the form of several new guidebooks, some of which play strictly for laughs Travel briefs and others that offer offbeat advice. Columnists Among them: Special features Wi-Fi hotspots • Hotel Hobbies: 50 Things to Do in a Hotel Room That Won't Get You Arrested by Marcus Weeks (Thunder Bay Press, $9.95). After Site index you whip the rarely washed synthetic spread off the bed, scoff at the outrageous minibar prices and locate the TV remote, there's Destinations not a lot for the inveterate solo traveler to do in a hotel room.Destinations home Hotel Hobbies aims to fix that with 50 creative suggestions for City Guides self-amusement. In the arts and crafts department, there are directions for soap scrimshaw and dental floss pom-poms. For the 10 Great restless, there's instruction in toilet tennis and in-line tray skating. Today's Top Travel StoriesThe ...

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