(ARA) - The summer travel season is here and you're wondering where to go and what to do. But visions of summer vacations may change this year due to sky-high airline fares and the weakened U.S. dollar. How can you still plan the perfect family getaway?

'The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World' (Avalon, 620 pp., $21.95) In its fourth edition, this extensive handbook is something of a bible for independent, on-their-own travelers seeking to circumnavigate the world.

Lonely Planet has teamed up with Pikeo.com, a photo sharing site, to run a competition which gives readers an opportunity to submit travel photos for the latest London, Paris, Barcelona and Istanbul guides, published next year.

Most travel journals are empty pages on which you can write. African Safari Journal by Mark W. Nolting (Global Travel Publishers, $20) is different. The 328-page book has pages for your thoughts, but it also offers a bounty of information.

Mainland-based Cross-Strait Tourism Association (CSTA) has published three regulatory documents on mainland tourists' travel to Taiwan. The three regulations, posted on the National Tourism Administration's website www.cnta.gov.cn, ...