When choosing a travel destination, it’s important to do your research. Most of us explore travel choices by reading stories, blog posts, and reviews by other travelers.

Then again, a picture is worth a thousand words, and so maybe it’s best to view an online photo album in order to get a sense of the place where you want to go.

But what if you could watch a video of your prospective destination? Wouldn’t that be the best way to get an accurate idea of what the destination actually has to offer?

Share Travel Videos

A while back we profiled 5 sites to watch free online travel videos. Now there’s a new kid on the block – Triporia.com, enabling travelers everywhere to watch video of destinations before they book their tickets.

Triporia is a new site, but already there are nearly 500 videos from nearly as many destinations. The offer an advantage over sites like Youtube that are often cluttered with poor quality clips that make it difficult to find the gems.

Triporia’s intuitive site navigation makes searching a breeze. You can enter a place-name in a handy search bar, or use the interactive map feature to explore the possibilities.

Or, even better, you can just browse through videos at random until you find a place that catches your eye. Who knows – you may just fall in love with a place that you had never even heard of before.

Thinking of a trip to Switzerland? Watch before you go!

How about a country lodge in Scotland? The Glenmore lodge has videos of all the outdoor sports on offer at their property. The kayaking looks awesome!

After signing-up, you’ll be able to upload your travel videos for other users to see.

Find a special Bed and Breakfast whose owners deserve a little publicity? Shoot a quick video with your digital camera, post it on Triporia and spread the word to a global community of travelers.

A Handy Tool

Those who anticipate their adventure often enjoy the best trips. Triporia is a fantastic tool for trip-planners everywhere, and it has the potential to grow into a truly dynamic community of travelers.

BNT contributing editor Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia and Traverse Magazine. Check out his Matador profile.

Imagine driving along a sweeping curve of ocean beach at sunset, watching surfers catch waves in the last light of day. Or venturing down a red-dirt road through tropical jungle in search of the perfect waterfall plunge pool.

Hawaii is a destination of tropical beauty and outdoor adventure, but to get the most out of your vacation, you’ll need wheels. Who wants to sit around the hotel all day?

Get out and explore, and feel the warm Hawaiian breeze in your hair. With a rental car, it’s easy to get the most out of your Hawaiian vacation.

That’s where the website Hawaiidrive-o.com comes in handy. It’s a great option for a hawaii car rental. The website is intuitive and easy to use. Best of all, you can be sure of getting a sweet deal on the car you prefer to drive!

Need a Maui car rental for that jungle trail? A few clicks and it will be waiting for you in the parking lot. Prefer a luxury sports-car to tool around the ocean highway? Hawaii car rental can make it happen.

The best thing about the website is its simplicity. With just a minute of your precious time you can get the car you need at the price you want. That’s more time for driving, and more money for Pina Coladas and surf lessons.

No matter which of the Hawaiian islands you’re lucky enough to visit, Hawaii car rental has the car for you. With a quick look at the website, you’ll soon find the best rates and the best service for rentals in Hawaii, Oahu, Kauai, Maui and Molokai.

Of course, Hawaii isn’t the only paradise of beach under the sun. Florida bound vacationers need cars too! For Miami car rentals, look no further than Hawaiidrive-o.com

One of the best parts about traveling is the opportunity to push your comfort zone.

You travel to discover new cultures and ideas, but, as you go, you’ll also unearth unknown aspects of yourself: things you didn’t know you were capable of (like stomaching that scorpion soup) or that you didn’t know you’d love (like the whip of brambles on your legs as you explore a verdant rainforest.)

The more you experience, the more you grow. One great way to expand your horizons is to travel with a timeshare.

Flexible Travel

Contrary to popular belief, timeshares won’t tie you down to one place for the rest of your life. With a little research, you’ll find that the opposite is true.

In fact, it’s thought that up to 80% of timeshare owners take advantage of the optimum flexibility that their vacation property offers by using it to travel all over the world.

Don’t be Intimidated

Timesharing is simple. Here’s how it works: when you buy timeshare what you’re essentially purchasing is…wait for it…time! As such, the nature of your vacation property dictates that it will be extremely flexible.

This time, generally one week annually or biennially, can be used again and again at a resort of your choice, or it can be traded within a larger network for a week anywhere in the world.

Find a Locale You Love

There are a couple of ways you can go about securing the perfect method for you. To do this, you’ll have to consider your vacation lifestyle, needs, desires and personality. Being an adventurous traveler doesn’t necessarily mean exploring the mountaintops and caves in every corner of the world.

Sometimes it takes just as much courage and morale to attempt to fully immerse yourself in the lifestyle of an oft-visited, yet distant culture from your own. So if you’ve found a destination that you’ve fallen in love with and want to get to know more intimately, a timeshare might be the perfect way to ensure that you’ll be able to return again and again.

Or Explore Every Corner of the World

You can still use this property to travel around the world by trading your week within an exchange company (make sure your timeshare is affiliated before you purchase), but it will be your home base: always ready for you when you’re ready to return. But what if your idea of adventure is a little more rebellious?

If you’re the kind of vacationer who likes to explore a new and exciting locale every year, you can still use timeshares to fulfill all of your enterprising vacation desires.

Go Anywhere With a Vacation Club

One of the most popular forms of timeshare for sale right now is the vacation club. These clubs offer membership that will afford owners an increment of time each year (if you choose annual usage).

But rather than being assigned to a specific destination, these memberships make available a broad range of resorts in destinations all over the world. With a vacation club, you can travel to the stunning limestone mountains of Yangshuo China, one year and the pristine coast of Fiji the next.

TimeshareHotDeal is more than just a family of timeshare sales companies, it’s a philosophy. We share a dedication to professional ethics and a commitment to making sure that all business is done with a “human touch”.

Let me make one thing clear from the start: I don’t like mobiles, or ‘cell phones’ as we call them in the States.

When I first checked out the website of Mobal, an international cell phone company that sells inexpensive GSM World Phones, I was deeply skeptical.

Sure, I’ll review the site, I thought. But I don’t need one of these contraptions. I was the classic tough sell.

Well, now I’m (almost) sold.

The Mobal website may be the online version of a late-night TV infomercial, but the service they offer is very attractive to a certain set of travelers.

If staying connected on the road is a priority and convenience is more important than cost, the Mobal GSM World Phone turns out to be a smart investment.

Here’s the deal:

Staying in touch from the road is not difficult or expensive if you’re willing to adjust your habits and rely on the Internet instead of a cell phone. Or, if you’re staying in one place for a while, it’s not a huge hassle to buy a SIM card or pick up a cheap phone locally.

But what if you really need to stay in touch with home and/or have a cell phone while traveling?

What if you’re going to many different countries in a relatively short time, and don’t want to get a new cell phone (and a new number) every place you go?

It would be very, very convenient to have one reliable cell phone, with one number and one simple calling plan that you can use no matter where you are in the world.

Especially if you’re a business traveler. Especially if the service is reasonably affordable.

Pick Your Model

Mobal offers 2 phones, a $49 model that works in most countries, excluding the United States, and a $99 model that works almost anywhere local coverage is available, including the U.S.

There is no fee for anything except for calls you make or receive. This means the phone is a good deal for travelers who don’t plan to use a cell phone much, but want one reliable phone on hand, just in case.

Calls from a Mobal phone aren’t cheap, but the prices aren’t ridiculous either. Incoming calls tend to cost a dollar or two per minute, and outgoing local and international calls are priced at around $2.50 per minute.

At that rate, you won’t want to chat all day, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing – more time to concentrate on traveling!

However it shakes out, using a Mobal phone is a much better and cheaper alternative to renting a phone locally.

Sold?

I seriously considered buying a Mobal GSM phone for my upcoming trip to Patagonia. Ultimately, though, I decided that since I’m traveling with my laptop, I don’t really need one.

Also, since I’ll be in Chile and Argentina for over 5 months and don’t plan to visit other countries, I can buy a cheaper phone locally and call friends and family in the U.S. and Japan over the Internet with Skype (which is free).

But if I was visiting many countries, or if my business travel were a little more, um, financially significant, I would not hesitate to snap up a Mobal GSM world phone.

BNT contributing editor Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia and Traverse Magazine. Check out his personal site Rucksack Wanderer.

How do you stay in touch on the road? Leave a comment below!

Nick needs a ticket to Argentina. Five of my college buddies and I are going to have a mini-reunion in Patagonia over Christmas and New Year’s.

We’ve all managed to find inexpensive plane tickets, except for Nick.

Nick is perhaps the most intelligent of my friends, but he is also far and away the most…easily distracted. (Think John Belushi with perfect SAT’s.)

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Nick revealing he has yet to purchase his plane ticket.

Two things are clear: Nick needs to come to Patagonia, and he probably won’t find a cheap ticket on his own.

My sponsored review of the cheap flight finder SideStep.com has become a personal mission: I will use it to find Nick a cheap ticket, and I will get him to Argentina.

Powerful Potential

The SideStep homepage is big on potential and low on gloss. There are no flashy ads or distracting banners, just a simple, understated interface with a basic flight-search tool front and center and small print that says:

We search over 200 travel websites to bring you the very best travel values on the web.

There’s a slim, almost google-ish confidence to SideStep.com. Both use a deceptively basic, bare-bones and user-friendly exterior to conceal massively powerful and ambitious search machinery.

SideStep is one of the least flashy cheap flight-finders I’ve encountered, but it also claims to be the most powerful and efficient.

Yet – I still don’t know how well the site will actually work, or if I can find Nick a cheap ticket to Argentina.

Let The Challenge Begin

Nick lives in Chicago but his family is in New York. My goal is to find him a round-trip ticket from either departure airport to Buenos Aires, Argentina or Santiago, Chile for under $1,200, $200 less than the cheapest fare I found using other flight-finders.

I tried New York first, typing JFK and EZE into the SideStep.com flight-finder and picking 2 dates in late December and early January. It only took a few seconds to enter the information, and a few more seconds for the search machinery to turn.

The first price I saw pop up was in the neighborhood of $3,000. Agh! I jumped away from the computer as if it had given me an electric shock.

In a couple moments though, a cheaper flight had appeared – $1,500, with a lay-over in Miami. Not awful, but not great either, seeing as last week I used another online flight-finder to get a $1,200 fare from Hawaii, to Argentina, to New York.

There was a handy little sidebar asking me to compare SideStep.com’s results with other popular flight-finders. Before I gave that a try though, I decided to register as an official SideStep member.

After I filled in the sign-up form, SideStep told me my e-mail address was already registered. Huh? This was my first time on the site, and a quick search of my Gmail archives didn’t turn up anything from SideStep.

Try, Try Again

I abandoned sign-up for the time being and tried to check flights from Chicago to Buenos Aires, using different dates. But I couldn’t get the search machinery to spin this time – it just gave me a blank screen.

I kept trying for about an hour, then gave up. (Other search programs were working and my Internet connection was reliable at the time).

Hmm. Maybe I caught SideStep.com at a bad moment.

The next day I went back to SideStep.com and tried again. This time, the site worked very smoothly, as the search machinery churned through hundreds of fares in only a few seconds.

Unfortunately, I still couldn’t find a cheap enough ticket for winter break.

I did find several very cheap fares for dates in February and March, including a $700 fare direct from JFK to Buenos Aires.

The lesson? SideStep.com can help you find cheap plane tickets swiftly and efficiently – but you still need to plan your travel more than a month in advance to find the best fare.

BNT contributing editor Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia and Traverse Magazine. Check out his personal site Rucksack Wanderer.

What’s your favorite place to find cheap flights online? Leave a comment below!

For me, luxury travel usually means little more than clean sheets, hot water and black coffee in the morning. Camping on a beach or staying with local villagers makes me just as happy as sipping a cocktail next to an elegantly landscaped plunge pool.

But even though vagabonding travelers like me have been known to sneer at expensive luxury resorts and dismiss their pampered guests as out of touch with reality, I recognize that the luxury travel experience, done well, can be a beautiful thing.

There is a time and a place for everything, and when I plan my Honeymoon, or my parent’s 40th anniversary celebration, I’ll want a truly memorable and luxurious holiday.

This is where the website Kiwi Collection is remarkably useful. Kiwi’s team of hospitality experts search out truly outstanding travel experiences around the world and present them in a well organized and attractive online database.

After all, if you’re going to splurge, you might as well search out the best of the best.

Centerfold Hotels

I have to admit, the Kiwi Collection website makes my mouth water. The whole site feels like it was lifted straight from the glossy pages of Travel + Leisure or GQ magazine.

The featured destination photos are of very high quality and give a good sense of what each property offers. It’s easy to click through the descriptions of stately dining rooms and drift into a Gatsby-esque fantasy of elegance.

Horseback riding in Argentine wine-country? Or perhaps you would prefer a memorable mountain hotel in Armenia?

The Kiwi Collection really does span the globe.

Browsing through the site, it’s easy to daydream. Candlelit ballrooms and scattered tropical flowers on high thread-count sheets. Of course I want a rare and succulent holiday experience. Yes, this gorgeous suite overlooking the Mediterranean would be quite lovely, thank you.

Of course, then I check my bank account and remember that I don’t even know how to spell ‘Mediterranean.’

But if I was looking for the best room in Monaco, or wanted to treat my hedge-fund pals to a memorable week of fly-fishing at a lodge in British Columbia, Kiwi Collection would be the first place I’d look.

Why the name Kiwi?

To answer the question posed in the title: what does a kiwi have in common with luxury travel? Here’s the connection according to the website:

“Kiwi is a relatively new word. It is pronounced the same in almost every major language. As luxury accommodations appeal to a global audience, Kiwi Collection was designed to be universally accessible. And like the kiwifruit, the company tries to be fresh and full of flavor in everything it does. After all, every journey in life should be a rich, rare and succulent experience, so enjoy your travels.”

If you’re curious what succulent accommodation looks like, head over to Kiwi Collection.

BNT contributing editor Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia and Traverse Magazine. Check out his personal site Rucksack Wanderer.

What’s the poshest luxury accommodation you’ve ever stayed in? Leave a comment below!

Say you’ve decided to visit India, China, England, or a thousand other places unknown to you. These days, a quick internet search will reveal a mountain of written data on where to go, what to see, and what to eat.

Over the last few years, this data has grown to include video clips (a topic I previously covered here).

GeoBeats.com is one site that stands out from the crowd for featuring quality travel videos. A quick tour of the website reveals a surprisingly array of destinations, covered with the unique style and perspective of a local guide.

Here’s what they have to say about their work:

The facts presented in the videos are thoroughly researched. The narration in each video focuses on what’s most relevant and interesting for the particular topic. Additionally, in working with passionate filmmakers and hosts, we are able to reflect local flavor and personality across all destinations.

In an interesting twist, GeoBeats has now launched their own travel blog: Travel Beats. The blog is written by the same hosts and filmmakers of their destinations, in a friendly and informative tone that’s insightful and easy to read.

Much like their travel videos, the Travel Beats blog posts are heavily focused on a topic specific to a destination, with coverage extending world-wide. Articles are more in-depth than you would typically read in the average guidebook.

For example, a search in the India archive lists topics like:

• A Unique Drink From Kerala
• 5 Biggest Myths About India
• Janmashtami Festival
• Birla Temple

What I enjoy most of the Travel Beats blog is that while the posts make sure never to stray into the bland territory of fluffy content – a disease that seems to permeate many destination specific travel blogs (and films).

I believe this can be attributed to the fact that the guides and filmmakers actually live in the cities they cover. They are passionate about their culture and country, and are happy to invite the reader (or viewer) in to share their experience.

While Travel Beats is still new, it’s growing rapidly with great new content. Check it out today and help them out with some feedback!

Ian MacKenzie is editor of Brave New Traveler, and co-founder of the blogging community TravelBlogger. Recently, he also began offering website marketing consulting services specifically for travel websites and service providers. Visit his other project One Week Job.

One thing I’ve learned since quitting my day job and becoming a full-time travel writer: the future of travel writing, travel guides and travel communities is online.

It’s nice to get published in traditional print media, if only because it gives me something to show my technologically oblivious Grandmother, but there’s no doubt that we’re at the tail-end of dead-tree press.

World travelers are a tech-savvy and adaptable bunch.

While there will always be room for a beat-up copy of On The Road in the bottom of our packs, the ease of publishing and accessing information on the Internet is quickly making old fashioned travel publications obsolete.

At the forefront of this revolution is MatadorTravel.com.

Matador combines the community oriented features of a social networking site with quality travel writing, insider destination guides and a growing index of grassroots organizations looking for travelers to lend a helping hand.

The New Golden Age

I’m a genuine fan of Matador – signing up last spring from an Internet cafe in Cambodia was a key step in making it this far as a travel writer. But I don’t want this post to sound too much like an infomercial, so (full disclosure) here’s why I’m taking the time to write this article.

Both Brave New Traveler and Matador share a similar audience – thoughtful, independent and open-minded travelers with a social and environmental conscience.

It makes sense for Brave New Traveler readers to tap into the resources Matador offers, and, likewise, Matador users are a natural audience for this up-and-coming online magazine.

Another thing I’ve learned in the past year is that building a successful media outlet takes two things: great content and a lot of publicity.

Brave New Traveler and Matador already have solid content. I’m writing for free, because I want both websites to succeed and (ahem) reach the point where they can pay their writers (like me) enough to cover travel expenses AND health insurance.

Supporting Travel Writers

Ever dreamed of getting published? Matador recently launched a new feature called the Bounty Board, which is a list of paid travel writing assignments in need of writers.

Thinking of backpacking in Africa? Matador will pay you $200 to explore the coast of Mozambique. Know a few underrated ski resorts in Canada? Share the secret powder stash, and Matador will cover the cost of your lift tickets.

Amicable Authors

There are some excellent articles and guides on Matador already, but this hardly makes the site unique; you can find lots of travel stories and destination reviews online.

The biggest problem with this sort of online information is anonymity – you don’t know who the author is and whether or not you can trust their advice.

Matador transcends this issue because it is first and foremost a community of travelers. Every user fills out a profile, with photos and blurbs about their favorite places and individual travel style.

When you read an article or guide on Matador, you know who wrote it and where they’re coming from.

Find Your Long Lost Friend

You know how sometimes you meet a fellow traveler in a guesthouse or on a long bus ride and stay up all night swapping travel tales and recommendations? Matador brings thousands of those passionate travelers together.

If, like me, you’re planning a trip to Argentina, just search for people who are traveling there now, introduce yourself and ask for advice. You’ll get the kind of up-to-date, honest information that even the best guidebooks can’t provide, and if you’re lucky, you might even make a new friend and travel partner as well.

Passionate Founders

Over the past few months I’ve become friends with the people working behind the scenes at Matador.

Ross, Ben and David are travelers like you and me. They’re good guys, dedicated to building a community that will bring people together and make a positive impact in the real world. Matador partners with small NGOs and outreach groups, helping travelers find organizations in need of energetic volunteers.

Last year in Thailand I was very lucky to have a friend who knew about a remarkable sustainable community by a National Park near Chiang Mai.

Now, information about that secret spot is available on Matador for all curious travelers who want to get off the tourist trail.

Matador is a member of the One Percent for the Planet network too; the founders are consciously modeling the philosophy of ecologically sound business owners like Yves Chouinard, the founder of the Patagonia clothing company.

All the content on Matador is free, and will stay that way. It’s a real community, full of great people, and I honestly feel lucky to have discovered it early. Now is a perfect time to stop by, check out the scene and join in.

Thanks for reading, and please drop me a comment if you feel inclined.

Tim Patterson travels with a sleeping bag and pup tent strapped to the back of his folding bicycle. His articles and travel guides have appeared in Get Lost Magazine, Tales Of Asia, Matador Travel and Common Language Project. Check out his personal site Rucksack Wanderer and his very own Matador Travel profile.

One of the travel realities that’s rarely revealed is the amount of waiting that accompanies every type of journey.

I remember in Thailand, I had taken a bus from Bangkok to the southern coast, arriving in the terminal sometime around 4am. It was unbearable hot, pitch black, and nothing was open. It was too muggy to sleep and I was too hungry to read a book.

In short, it was a mildly hellish 5 hour wait until morning when the ferry arrived. If only I’d had something more effective than a book for distraction, it might have made the time more bearable.

Enter: the Nintendo DS. I’ll be honest with you – like all adolescent boys, I used to be addicted to video games.

Luckily, I outgrew that practice in my early 20’s. Sure, I’d play video games now and then at a friend’s place, but for the most part, I left the pixelated world cold turkey.

The Revival

So recently, when I tried the latest Nintendo DS, I was skeptical. (Full disclosure: I was sent a free review copy). Had video games really changed that much in the past 6 years? Would I really want to pack one of these in my backpack for guaranteed distraction on the road?

When the box arrived, I unpacked it with suspense. First impression: it’s sexy. Nintendo has definitely been taking design lessons from Apple, borrowing their white graphite aesthetic.

Second, it’s a marvel of technology. I remember when the original Gameboy weighed 8 pounds and sported one dismal black-and-white screen. This newer version is a fraction of the weight, and the dual screens are a beautiful site to behold.

Third, it comes with a stylus. Yep, it’s utilizes touchscreen. I couldn’t believe it myself. It’s like having a Blackberry — only one that you can’t get business calls from and forces you to play games.

Get Smarter

Speaking of games, the Nintendo DS came with a copy of Brain Age. You may have heard of it already, as it was apparently one of the top-selling games in Japan.

It’s basically a combination of brain-sharpening activities that test your mental prowess, such as high-speed multiplication, reading exercises, brain teasers, puzzles, and even a version of Sudoku.

If it sounds mildly interesting, it’s not. It’s actually a blast.

Or at least, that was my wife tells me. Ever since we got it, she’s been playing it more than I have.

Maybe it’s the curious combination of competition and the promise of a better brain that makes Brain Age so addicting. Or maybe it’s the fact that the game is narrated by a jovial Japanese professor who cracks jokes and urges you to develop your “pre-frontal cortex.”

Either way, I’ve decided to do what I never thought possible. On my next trip, in anticipation of the agonizingly inevitable waits I’ll be forced to endure, I’m going to pack along the Nintendo DS.

Because you never know when you’ll need an escape.

Ian MacKenzie is editor of Brave New Traveler, and co-founder of the blogging community TravelBlogger. Recently, he also began offering website marketing consulting services specifically for travel websites and service providers.

The mantra of today’s air traveler seems to be “just get me there.” No frills, extra pillows, peanuts, or other perks must get in the way of the cheapest airfare possible. The industry is at each other’s throats weekly, each airline trying to undercut the other.

And the pricing war has been hastened by the arrival of internet airfare comparision tools, Firefox add-ons, RSS feeds, and other ways of tracking the rise and fall of best airfares.

But there’s one segment of the airline industry that has been overlooked by the bigger portals like Kayak and Expedia – a bevy of discount airlines have so far eluded much of the mainstream.

These airlines, over 100 throughout the world, are usually small, no frills, and ultimately inexpensive.

This was the unknown undercurrent that John Hostetler discovered when traveling through Europe in 2004, and decided to start the airline comparison website AirNinja.com.

The site is refreshingly simple, with little distractions from the task at hand – mainly, allowing you to search discount airline routes. If you don’t know exactly where to start, you can browse by city or by airline.

The beauty (or downfall) of AirNinja.com is they don’t actually show any prices, but they do reveal harder to find airline routes that give you the full story when you’re trying to find the best carrier.

From there, you can book your flight directly with the airline, paying none of the middle-agent fees charged by the bigger portals along the way.

Along with the search engine tool, AirNinja.com also offers a few handy articles, including How To Find Cheap Flights in 3 Easy Steps and Discount Airline Tips.

Basically, AirNinja.com aims to be the first stop for travelers looking for the whole story on routes from both discount and non-discount airlines. The more you know, the better informed (and less you’ll pay) when booking your flight.

Have you tried AirNinja.com? Share your experience in the comments!

For example, I’ve had a few friends show me their favourite photos from Greece — leading me to believe the country consists of little more than gleaming white houses set on cliff tops, looking out over the unbroken seas.

Perhaps I’ll get there eventually and see for myself. If you’ve got similar desires for cheap holidays in Greece, or the Carribbean, Tenerife, Egypt, Turkey (even more places I want to go), then check out OTBeach.

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