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Accomodations on regularly scheduled planes and ships may be scarce for this summer, but there's never much trouble in getting to Europe on a special tour. Certain travel agencies, in addition to organizations like Students' International Travel Association and the Youth Histels, sponsor guided, co-educational tours concentrating on anything from music to bicycling. Prices for the study tours vary from $540 to $1190, while the bicycle trips, including ocean passage and all expenses, can be had for as little...
...item that cannot be overlooked or even postponed in planning summer travel abroad is a passport. Since ten days is the minimum period for having one unprocessed, immediate application is necessary. Passports can be obtained in Boston--with the aid of a certified birth certificate, two photographs, and a 21-year old witness who's known the applicant for three years--in the Main Post Office Building at Post Office Square...
Opportunities for summer travel are not limited to excursions across the Atlantic, however. For those who like steamboat accomodations that are nearly as expensive, but much easier to get, there are trips to various South American ports. An average fare here is $173, one-way, from Boston to Caracas, Venezuela, for students who prefer to do their traveling on land, and still cover considerable distances, bus companies offer continental tours ranging in price up to $899.92 for a 60-day trip to California and the Canadian Rockies...
Inexpensive travel within the country is possible as well, by such arrangements as driving new automobiles from Detroit to the western United States. Some Pacific Coast dealers pay drivers a small salary as well as expenses...
Even the student staying at Summer School need not give up all hopes of summer travel. Short local bicycle trips, ranging in price from $28 to $35, visit places like Cape Cod and Nova Scotia, and in addition the Summer School itself conducts weekend excursions to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood...