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The Single Parent Travel Handbook is a "must read for anyone who wants to make family memories last a lifetime!..Practical tips that really work and suggestions you know had to come from personal experience. The stories and articles range from entertaining to downright hilarious. Read this book even if you can't afford to travel-it makes you feel as if you are there!"-Kay Brewer, Parents Without Partners

Why is single parent travel different than traditional family travel? "By definition, the single parent is a working parent," says Brenda Elwell, a travel industry veteran and author of the only travel book focused exclusively on the subject, The Single Parent Travel Handbook (ISBN: 0-9723627-0-3; Travel Essay/Parenting; $17.95 ($28.00 Canadian); trade paperback; 320 p.; Appendices; single parent survey; Index; Release date: March 21, 2003, Single Parents' Day). "Traditional double parent vacations are structured to get rid of the kids so the parents can have couple time, but the single parent always winds up as the 'odd man out' stuck somewhere in the space between 'family couple' and 'swinging single.'" Ms. Elwell has made it her mission to change that.

The Single Parent Travel Handbook focuses on planning a trip that will be enjoyed by both the children and their parent, whether that occurs in the U.S. or in Zimbabwe. Ms. Elwell helps sort out the troubling details of single parent travel, such as dealing with the dreaded "Single Supplement," assembling the documents necessary to travel with children in these security-conscious times, and finding travel agents who specialize in single parent travel. There are also dozens of destination ideas, ways of coping with most parental dilemmas, the results of a survey of single parents and heartwarming stories by single fathers. This is one book no single parent can afford to do without!

Some raves from Brenda Elwell's book, newsletter and Web site:

• "Finally, some information for those of us who refuse to let single parenthood mean nothing but trips to Disneyland (which I hate!)."-G.B.
• "I am a single female and love to travel with my nieces all the time. This book is a keeper. Brenda's reasoning is brilliant and the book will fascinate any single parent travel aficionado"-S.R.

Brenda Elwell: Author, Entrepreneur, Travel Advisor
A veteran of over thirty years experience in the travel industry and a worldwide adventurer, Brenda Elwell has lived abroad and traveled to over 60 countries and 45 states, half of them as a single parent with her two kids in tow. Ms. Elwell holds a B.A. in languages from Colby College. Her work has been praised by her readers and the New York Times, Rudy Maxa's Savvy Traveler radio show, Travel Weekly, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Frommers.com, Parents Magazine, MSNBC as well as other media. Addicted to adventurous travel to remote and exotic places, Ms. Elwell is at home anywhere on the planet.

The Single Parent Travel Handbook is available anywhere books are sold, at www.SingleParentTravel.net or from 800-431-1579.

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