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Shakeemah Smith, affectionately called "The Passport Abuser" has traveled to over 50 countries solo and enjoys empowering women and equipping them with the tools that she's learned over the last eight years (and 57 countries) so other women can start their travel journey around the world. Shakeemah has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, USA Today, The Washington Post, Pop Sugar, and Travel Noire.  Shakeemah created her course, "Travel Like A Bawse" in 2015, and had taught 2000 women in 11 countries how to master solo travel.

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Shakeemah Smith, affectionately called "The Passport Abuser" has traveled to over 50 countries solo... She enjoys empowering women and equipping them with the tools that she's learned over the last eight years (and 57 countries) so other women can start their travel journey around the world.

Shakeemah has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, USA Today, The Washington Post, Pop Sugar, and Travel Noire.  Shakeemah created her course, "Travel Like A Bawse" in 2015, and had taught 2000 women in 11 countries how to master solo travel.

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STR: U.S. hotel performance for October 2021

HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee—The U.S. hotel industry reported higher performance than the month prior, according to October 2021 data from STR .

October 2021 (percentage change from October 2019):

• Occupancy: 62.9% (-8.8%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$134.78 (+1.2%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$84.75 (-7.6%)

Among the Top 25 Markets, Nashville experienced the highest occupancy level (71.8%), which was still down 11.9% from the market’s 2019 benchmark.

None of the Top 25 Markets saw an occupancy increase over October 2019.

Markets with the lowest occupancy for the month included Oahu Island (48.9%) and Minneapolis (51.1%).

Oahu Island reported the steepest decline in occupancy when compared with 2019 (-41.0%).

Overall, the Top 25 Markets showed lower occupancy but higher ADR than all other markets.

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Reconnect with Smith through our travel program. Guest faculty or hosts accompany most of our trips. Together with highly skilled tour directors and local guides, they ensure an enlightening travel experience. Share adventures with Smith alums, their families, and friends while enjoying special behind-the-scenes visits that are impossible for individual travelers to arrange on their own. An added bonus is that you can relax while all your trip arrangements are made for you.

Phoebe Lewis ’51

As we relaunch the Smith College Travel Program, let’s take a moment to remember Phoebe Lewis ’51. Phoebe co-directed the Smith College Travel Program from 1979–1983 and 1986–1989. Phoebe also served on the Board of Alumnae Association serving as President from 1983-1986. She became a Member of the Board of Trustees from 1983–1989 and Chair of Trustees from 1989–1994. In 1996, Phoebe was honored with the John M. Greene award for her years of service to the college.

Phoebe died on January 26, 2024.

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While Smith Travel programs are designed for alums of Smith College and accompanying members of their immediate families, enrollment is open to all members and friends of the Smith community. Space permitting, a participating alum may bring a non-Smith friend or couple.

Trip size varies. Any exclusive Smith Only land tours are capped at 20-24 passengers. Cruises are shared with other like-minded organizations and institutions and accommodate between 100 and 200 people, depending on the ship. Smith Travel reserves 20-30 spots on each cruise.

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All participants must be in good health to enjoy a Smith Travel program. Any condition that may require assistance or special medical attention must be reported at the time a reservation is made. By forwarding the deposit for preregistration or registration in full, participants certify that they do not have any physical or other limitations that would create a hazard for themselves or other travelers.

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Please note that many countries now require individuals to possess passports with an expiration date of six months beyond the expected return to the United States. Please check that your passport meets the requirements of the country you will be visiting. If your passport needs to be renewed, please leave yourself ample time for processing.

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Smith College is the sponsor of the trips and has engaged independent tour operators to arrange the tours. Because Smith College does not own, operate, manage or control, and is not in a partnership or joint venture with either the tour operators or the various independent companies and persons with which or whom the tour operator has arranged to supply services, Smith College and its officers, directors, trustees, agents, servants, employees, affiliations and assigns are not liable for any negligent or willful acts or omissions of the tour operator or the various suppliers, including any acts or omissions on their part that cause, without limitations, injury, death, theft, damage to or loss of property, delay, inconvenience, or the cancellation, substitution, overbooking or downgrading of accommodations, transportation or other services. Additional terms and conditions may apply to your trip and will be sent with your registration acknowledgement, which you must sign and return to Smith Travel.

What’s Included

• A comprehensive educational program, including lectures and discussions with a Smith lecturer or host
• Accommodations based on double occupancy in first-class hotels or ships with private bathroom
• Services of tour directors and experienced local guides
• Bus transfers and baggage handling for participants traveling on group flights
• Port charges on cruises
• Excursions as listed in final itineraries
• Meals as indicated in final itineraries
• Pre-trip information
• Most gratuities

What’s Not Included

• Round-trip airfare (unless specified)
• Passport and visa fees
• Personal travel insurance (we strongly recommend that you take out insurance and will send you details)
• Transfers and baggage handling for those traveling independently
• Gratuities to ship’s crew (unless specified)

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Travel insurance may be purchased for an additional fee.

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To ensure a reservation on one of our trips or to find out more information, contact Sarah Doody, travel program coordinator, at 904-432-3141, or send an email to [email protected] . Reservations may also be faxed to 866-427-4335. We will contact you and send you the final brochure as soon as it becomes available. You can then send in your trip deposit to confirm your place.

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Welcome to Smith Travel Inc

 Smith Travel Inc is a company specializing in ground transportation services for tourism and business. We are an organization that over time has achieved a position in the Orlando Florida special transport market by providing our service to travelers, which has allowed us to meet their expectations through an efficient, comfortable and safe service with extensive experience and logistics in the organization of special transport. 

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Bud S. Smith , an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.

Smith’s death was confirmed by his wife, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith.

During his five decades as an editor, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee , scoring bids in 1975 for William Friedkin’s horror classic, The Exorcist , which Smith shared with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay, and in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance

His credits also included Putney Swope, Cruising , Sam Raimi’s Darkman, Robert Towne’s Personal Best and Poltergeist II: The Other Side.

In the 1990s, Smith was a film doctor and consultant, most often on the slate at Universal Pictures under exec Casey Silver.

Born on Dec. 6, 1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Smith’s first credit came in 1965 for the TV film “The Bold Men.” He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2012.

He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Lucy.

Variety first reported his death.

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Hundreds descend on Smiths Grove to celebrate grand opening of KY's second Buc-ee's

SMITHS GROVE — Towering over Interstate 65, a baseball cap-wearing beaver sign welcomed motorists to its one-of-a-kind travel center in south central Kentucky for the first time Monday.

Drivers entered the beaver's residence to find an array of gas pumps and a sprawling storefront unlike any roadside stop in the region. There were inflatables, swimwear and pillows bearing the cartoon logo. Even a beaver mascot was in attendance, taking photos with joyful fans.

Buc-ee's, the popular gas station and convenience store chain rapidly expanding in the United States, settled in its smallest town yet — Smiths Grove. About 800 people live in what is usually a quiet community just outside Bowling Green, the city home to the National Corvette Museum and Western Kentucky University.

Monday's grand opening of the new travel center was anything but as hundreds of fans descended on the site on Smiths Grove-Scottsville Road. Among the line of eager customers waiting to enter the store at 6 a.m. was Karina Benitez, a first-timer at Buc-ee's. The pit stop in Smiths Grove was a pleasant surprise for her and her family, as they had no idea they were walking in to a brand new Buc-ee's location.

"We pulled up and I was like, 'Why is there a line? Why are there so many cars?' I wanted to know what the hype was all about and now I've seen it this morning, with all the other people in line," said Benitez, who was traveling from Houston to Columbus, Ohio with her son, mother and step-father.

Benitez said her parents had been to a Buc-ee's near Houston previously, so she pulled up to the Smiths Grove store with some knowledge about the chain's homemade brisket, beef jerky and friendly beaver mascot. She left Kentucky with a carload full of Buc-ee's merchandise, including a blanket, foldable lawn chairs, a stuffed animal and free t-shirts.

The most popular scene inside the new Buc-ee's may have been the "Texas Round Up," where chefs sporting cowboy hats chopped and sliced warm brisket, which they announced proudly by chanting "Fresh brisket on the board!"

Leading the barbecue stand Monday was Buc-ee's head pitmaster Randy Pauly. Pauly, who is based in the Houston area, came to Smiths Grove for two days to ensure the new staff could meet the company's standard for slow-cooked, Texas-style barbecue. New employees were also aided by experienced staffers who had worked at other locations across the country.

"We are constantly looking at the quality because it is the details that matter," Pauly said. "The details that are going to make that chopped brisket taco or brisket sandwich the absolute best, and that's what we are chasing because our guests deserve it."

Pauly, who pitched the "Texas Round Up" concept to Buc-ee's when he joined the company in 2017, said the chant is a central part of the barbecue pit because it shows how Buc-ee's is cooking brisket, pulled pork, turkey and other meats all day, no matter the time of day.

Deborah Yarberry and her daughter, Anna Hall, who are both from Bowling Green, grew to enjoy Buc-ee's brisket and the atmosphere inside the store when they stopped at travel centers in Leeds, Alabama and Richmond, Kentucky. For the grand opening in Smiths Grove, they both wore t-shirts featuring the beaver logo.

"We knew we were going to be here on opening day. We were so excited," Yarberry said, adding she and her daughter had caught up with the news of the store's opening through a Facebook fan page. They planned to buy Buc-ee's coffee mugs and try the fresh tortillas made in house.

Founded in Texas in the early 1980s, Buc-ee's has since grown into a 50-store chain, with at least four more locations set to pop up through 2026. The store in Smiths Grove is Kentucky's second after the Richmond location opened in 2022.

Buc-ee's seems to meet the "everything is bigger in Texas" standard of its home state. At just over 53,000 square feet, the new travel center in Smiths Grove has a wide footprint. Even the spacious bathrooms have earned high marks from road trippers.

The Buc-ee's store in Smiths Grove is staffed with over 200 employees, a company spokesperson said. The company still had some open positions as of Monday, according to its website.

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Flying On The Busiest July Fourth Travel Day? Here’s How To Sail Through Unscathed.

The TSA expects Friday to break the record for air passenger screening in a single day. Here’s how to keep your cool and get through the airport quickly.

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T he Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects Friday to break the record for the number of passengers screened at airports in a single day. The agency expects to screen more than 3 million people on June 28, which it says will be the peak travel day for this summer’s Fourth of July travel period.

In terms of air traveler volume, this summer is already shaping up to be a doozy. Since mid-May, the TSA has seen multiple days break into the top 10 busiest days in the agency’s 22-year history.

On a typical day, TSA officers screen roughly 2.5 million people nationwide. But over the past month, airport security has seen that number exceeded by several hundred thousand travelers per day. On the most recent two Fridays, for example, the agency screened nearly 2.8 million passengers on each of those days.

Among major U.S. airports, Philadelphia ranks as the 21st busiest in the country. There, the TSA screens about 33,400 people per day, but since Memorial Day Weekend, closer to 40,000 people are coming through the security checkpoints. “We expect to screen 8.3% more individuals at our checkpoints this summer compared to last summer,” said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s Federal Security Director at Philadelphia International Airport. “Travel volume expected out of Philadelphia is expected to be high. We ready to handle this summer’s increased travel volumes as we approach the July 4th holiday.”

Do get to the airport two hours ahead of departure.

Airports are going to be crowded, obviously, which means longer lines at check-in and airport security. “The best advice that I can offer is to get to the airport well before your ticketed departure time,” Spero said.

Do prepare for airport security.

Nobody wants to be the person holding up the airport security line. “Travelers can save time by removing items from their pockets and placing them in a carry-on bag, instead of putting items directly into bins at the conveyor belt,” Spero said.

Don’t pack prohibited items in carry-on bags.

Packing prohibited items slow the line because TSA officers will need to open and inspect your bag to determine what triggered the alarm. Before you get to the airport security checkpoint, check TSA’s “What Can I Bring?” tool to know what is prohibited. Move prohibited items to checked baggage or risk getting them confiscated.

For example, are you heading to the beach? Consider how you pack the sunscreen. Large bottles and tubes (over 3.4 ounces) of liquids, aerosols, gels, creams and pastes must be packed in a checked bag. Carry-on bags are limited to one quart-size bag containing small containers 3.4 ounces or less.

Last year, TSA officers at At Philadelphia airport, officers stopped 45 guns from being carried onto planes by passengers, breaking the previous year’s record of 44 guns caught. Firearms are never prohibited to pass through security checkpoints, even if a passenger has a concealed carry permit or is in a constitutional carry jurisdiction. Passengers are only allowed to travel with an unloaded firearm if it is packed in a locked, hard-sided case in their checked baggage and declared to the airline at check-in.

When TSA officers find a firearm in a carry-on bag, they will contact local law enforcement to unload and take possession the gun. TSA may impose a civil penalty up to $15,000 when weapons are intercepted, and passengers will lose TSA PreCheck eligibility. Local enforcement may also arrest or cite the passenger, depending on local law.

Do prepare for delays.

As of Friday at 11 am, more than 1,600 flights are delayed. That number will rise throughout the day, according to FlightAware , a free app that provides real-time, historical, and predictive flight tracking data. (More than 8,300 flights were delayed in each of the past three days.)

Flight delays escalate throughout the day because of how airlines reuse planes and crews for multiple trips during the day, creating a domino effect. A late-morning flight delay in Charlotte, for example, can prevent a plane from getting to Chicago for an early-afternoon departure, which can in turn bump back the same plane’s late-afternoon flight out of Houston.

FlightAware can tell you if your plane is on schedule or give you an early heads-up that a problem is afoot. Enter your flight information , and then click the “Where is my plane now?” link just under the flight number. If your plane is behind schedule, you can take action accordingly. FlightAware also lets you sign up for alerts to be sent via email or text if there are changes associated with your flight. You can search by flight number or city pairing.

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