A family from south east Cornwall have been travelling around the world for three years after they sold everything they used to own.

In 2014, Joanna and Sean Bailey, from Torpoint, made the decision to leave their old life behind and travel the world. They haven't looked back since.

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Joanna said the couple were a bit fed up with life at the time.

She said: "We had one child in school who was not loving the experience and were living hand-to-mouth financially, feeling like life was one big hamster wheel of working, paying and never having time to enjoy things.

"I'd been writing online in a freelance capacity for a couple of years and we figured that actually a lower cost of living elsewhere in the world would allow us to spend more time with the kids and enjoy our life, rather than just slogging it out to meet the high cost of living in the UK."

The couple decided to embrace a nomadic lifestyle. When their son Jack reached eight years old they told his school they would be home-educating him from then on. Their daughter Charlotte was four.

The Baileys also gave notice on their rented house and spent the next four weeks selling and donating everything they owned.

Joanna said: "It was pretty scary, but actually quite cathartic to shed all the 'stuff' we'd been carting around.

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"We moved in to my mother-in-law's once the contract was up on the house which was super cramped, but gave us the chance to sell the last few bits and prepare to leave the UK.

"We bought a motorhome and kitted it out with everything we thought we would need, and in September we set sail for Holland."

"We toured Europe for most of that year, although we did fly home for Christmas. Then we went back out in June having loved our experience and ready to go further afield.

"The weather in Europe was a little bit compromising, as it meant we spent a lot of time in Spain just to escape the cold and wet. We decided then to head east and flew out there after spending the summer with family."

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From September 2015 to Christmas 2016 the family toured South East Asia; Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

"It was amazing," Joanna said. "That was when we discovered house-sitting.

"We sat at a lovely house (probably worth about a million pounds, so way nicer than anywhere we'd ever be able to afford ourselves) and wondered why we hadn't done it before."

The family signed up with TrustedHousesitters.com - a site where people can apply to house-sit for free in exchange for looking after a resident pet.

Joanna said: "We love animals, so it was fantastic to be able to look after the dogs and cat as well as enjoying the amazing home.

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"Since we got back to the UK, we've decided to do more house-sitting as it gives us more space. It means we can cook for ourselves and lets us enjoy a different take on the countries we visit. We house-sat in Honiton for a month in January, looking after two dogs, two cats, two pigs, four goats and a flock of chickens!

"It was awesome and close enough to Plymouth that we could visit friends and family and invite them up for meals etc.

"We left the UK again at the start of Feb and are just wrapping up a house-sit in France."

From there the family plan to go to Italy and then Switzerland.

Joanna said: "We are travelling with a 4x4 which has a roof tent fitted so when we aren't house-sitting we can camp.

"So far so good, its been a truly outstanding experience for all of us."

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The family pay for travel with Joanna's writing work, house-sitting for free accommodation and always cooking their own meals.

"Life is quite cheap when you don't have council tax/utilities etc to pay for too," Joanna said.

The mum-of-two admitted it hasn't always been an easy journey, but she doesn't regret the decision to make the leap abroad and home school her children, Jack, now 10, and Charlotte, six.

"In Southeast Asia particularly we got sick occasionally and it's not fun being poorly when you're living in hostels etc.

"Money can be tight at times, but we tighten our belts when we need to. The kids really miss having children of their own age to play with and we miss our friends and family back home too.

"Home-schooling definitely has its up and downs. We only 'work' for about an hour to two hours a day, which is when we do workbooks or online learning appropriate to their ages. Mostly they're very good about this, but some days they can be a bit resistant.

"Our main focus though is on 'worldschooling' which is all about learning about other cultures, religions and societies and taking them to enriching places like museums, churches, animal sanctuaries etc.

"I think being accepting of other people is one of the most important lessons we can give them in our modern society. Showing them that things can be 'different' without being 'wrong'. I hope they are soaking it up like little sponges and will grow up to be kind adults as a result."

There are no plans to stop travelling any time soon - they still have America and Canada to experience. South America is also on the list and Sean has promised Joanna New Zealand for her 40th birthday.

Joanna had some words of advice for anyone considering the leap she and her family made.

She said: "Just do it. It's probably the scariest thing we've ever done, but it's also the best thing we've ever done. There's a really big supportive community of families from all over the world who are doing similar things, so it's not as terrifying or as lonely as you'd think.

"We've never looked back."

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Washington: Is it possible that Donald Trump has tweeted himself into irrelevance?

There are two ways to look at the crazed Twitter storm early on Saturday, in which the US President accused former president Barack Obama of criminally ordering wiretaps on Trump Tower.

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Were the tweets an after-the-fact distraction from Attorney-General Jeff Sessions complicating Trump's Russia nightmare, with his failure to disclose his meetings with the Russian ambassador and then his embarrassing recusal from any Justice Department deliberations on the various Russian-links inquiries; or was this a pre-emptive smokescreen for the shortcomings of Trump's revised executive order on migration,released on Monday morning?

Or did Trump's bout of tweeted rage serve to shine a light on a little-noticed body of evidence on the Trump campaign's Russian connections that warrants further investigation, because any request by the security agencies for court approval for the kind of surveillance alleged by Trump required it to produce a body of believable evidence?

The fallout needs to be unpacked in parts. But first, that new executive order.

Monday's unveiling was very different to that of its predecessor. For starters, the TV cameras were not wheeled in to record Trump fixing his signature to the new document and, despite Trump's protests about unnamed sources, the administration officials who explained the document in media briefings insisted that their names not be published.

And despite claims by the administration, the new document has its problems.

Iraq has been removed from the original list of seven countries from which travellers have been banned, which is interesting, given that it is a global hotbed of terrorism. But none of the other hotbed countries in the Middle East or elsewhere in the world has been added.

In an attempt to counter a key criticism of the original order that citizens of the banned countries had not been involved in terror strikes in the US the administration sought to firm up the national security justification for the order by claiming that 300 people who had entered the US as refugees were the subject of counter-terrorism investigations, but it refused to disclose their nationalities.

In any event, The Washington Post reports that a Homeland Security report on the terrorist threat posed by people from the seven countries has concluded that citizenship was an "unreliable" threat indicator and that people from the affected countries have rarely been implicated in US-based terrorism.

Also, the new order does nothing to quash the claim by former New York mayor and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani that Trump had asked him to take the "Muslim ban" that candidate Trump had called for and to "show me the right way to do it legally".

But back to the Trump tweets.

In tweeting as he did on Saturday, Trump has created an unprecedented circumstance FBI director James Comey is effectively calling him a liar; Trump's Republican colleagues in Congress are not rushing to support him; and even his loyal staffers are choosing their words carefully.

"I think he firmly believes that this is a story," spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in one interview, and in another: "Look, I think he's going off information that he's seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential."

Another problem is that, if or when Trump is proved wrong, he'll look like a bit of a dill. In the event that it's provedthat a wiretapping court order was issued, in all probability without Obama's knowledge, it would mean that a federal court had been convinced there were genuine reasons of national security for such an order on which, more later.

The torrent of leaks driving Trump nuts continues.

In assembling a remarkable portrait of Trump as "mad steaming, raging mad" on the weekend, The Washington Post had co-operation from no less than 17 White House officials and others in Trump's circle. One went on the record: "He was pissed. I haven't seen him this angry," his friend and Newsmax chief executive Christopher Ruddy said of two weekend encounters with the President.

Gnawing at Trump, apparently, is the then-and-now comparison at this stage of the Obama presidency, Obama seemingly was getting things done.

Even Trump thought as much at the time, saying of Obama's first press conference in February 2009: "First of all, I thought he did a great job tonight. I thought he was strong and smart, and it looks like we have somebody that knows what he is doing finally in office, and he did inherit a tremendous problem. He really stepped into a mess."

Each week is supposed to be a reboot for Trump. Last week his well-received address to the joint houses of Congress was supposed to be a fresh start, but it was bombed out of the water by reports on the Sessions meeting with ambassador Sergey Kislyak. This week too was to be a reboot, with the new migration executive order and a promised definitive plan to "repeal and replace" Obamacare but Trump's weekend tweets are keeping Russia on the boil.

All is not well in Trumpworld.

Apparently Trump's newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been deemed incapable of selling the death of Obamacare and the birth of whatever is to replace it so Trump has given the task to Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget.

And Sessions is in hot water too for revealing his meetings with the ambassador in answer to a question during his confirmation hearing that didn't ask if he had any such meetings.

The whole White House gang reportedly is furious with the Attorney-General's stumbles and Trump, in particular, is fuming that Sessions caved to demands that he recuse himself without consulting the White House, as various aspects of Trump's Russian links which are being investigated by several of the intelligence agencies that Trump so loathes and by five congressional committees.

ThePost's portrait of Trump's tantrums: "[He] simmered with rage... He upbraided [his advisers] over Sessions' decision to recuse himself, believing that Sessions had succumbed to pressure "

The New York Times had more: "[He] railed at aides about the recusal, singling out the White House counsel's office and the communications staff in a tirade visible through the window to a nearby television camera."

The leaks are not to be underestimated as a cause of presidential anger. Republican congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes told the Post: "It's not paranoia at all when it's actually happening. It's leak after leak after leak from the bureaucrats in the [intelligence community] and former Obama administration officials - and it's very real.

"The White House is absolutely concerned and is trying to figure out a systemic way to address what's happening."

The FBI's Comey is being circumspect his dismissal of Trump's charge against Obama is being sourced to unnamed officials. But James Clapper, a former director of national intelligence, didn't beat around the bush.

Asked if a secret intelligence warrant had been issued, Clapper bluntly told NBC's Meet the Press: "Not to my knowledge, no. There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign."

Had there been such an order or an application for one, Clapper insisted that he would "absolutely" have been informed of it. "I can deny it," he said.

Asked to substantiate the Trump tweets, the White House cited a selection of news reports from the BBC and Heatstreetin Britain and The New York Times and Fox News in the US, all of which touch on an aspect of the Russia investigations.

An analysis by the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez says: "The allegation made by various news sources is that, in connection with a multi-agency intelligence investigation of Russian interference with the presidential election, the FBI sought an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorising them to monitor transactions between two Russian banks and four persons connected with the Trump campaign

"[But] there's nothing here to suggest either the direct involvement of President Obama nor any clear indication of a violation of the law."

The Cato analysis then summarises a Breitbart News report that reportedly was critical in winding up the Trump Twitter storm "the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorisation to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media".

It then concludes: "None of this is really supported by the public record In short, both Breitbart and Trump have advanced claims far more dramatic than anything the public evidence can support".

Awarding Trump four Pinocchios, the Post's fact-checker Glenn Kessler writes: "Only two articles, both with British roots, have reported that a FISA court order was granted in October to examine possible activity between two Russian banks and a computer server in the Trump Tower. This claim has not been confirmed by any US news organisations.

"Moreover, neither article says President Obama requested the order or that it resulted in the tapping of Trump's phone lines. We're still waiting for the evidence "

So, executive orders will come and go, but the Russia mess remains and Trump's soundness of mind continues to be questioned even in Republican circles.

"We have as president a man who is erratic, vindictive, volatile, obsessive, a chronic liar, and prone to believe in conspiracy theories," conservative commentator and former George W. Bush policy chief Peter Wehner told the Post. "And you can count on the fact that there will be more to come, since when people like Donald Trump gain power they become less, not more, restrained".

On the weekend White House spokesman Sean Spicer pushed back on reporters' demands for more detail on Trump's attack on Obama: "If we start down the rabbit hole of discussing this stuff, we end up in a very difficult place."

As my old colleague Tommy Taylor would say: "Too right, Sean. You sprayed a bib-full."

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As President Donald Trump was signing his latest travel ban, restricting people from six predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S., oil and natural gas executives from around the world were gathering in Houston for one of the industrys biggest events of the year.

The ban, which restricts entry by people from countries including oil-rich Iran and Libya, hasnt affected attendance at the CERAWeek conference that draws leaders of major energy companies to Texas annually, saidJerre Stead, chairman and chief executive officer ofIHS Markit Ltd, which organizes the gathering. Trumps latest directive removed Iraq from an initial list of seven countries whose citizens cant travel to the U.S. for the next 90 days.

The impact would be zero with the travel ban for oil and gas companies, Stead said in an interview at CERAWeek on Monday, the first day of the conference. Weve got everyone here including the minister of Iraq. We got them all in and everything worked fine.

IHS estimated that 3,000 delegates from more than 60 countries were attending CERAWeek.

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While Trump is limiting travel from some countries key to oil and gas markets, hes also promised to roll back energy regulations. That would be positive for the industry, provided the pledge doesnt go too far, Stead said. Trump is expected to target the Clean Power Plan, a set of Obama-era rules that aim to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from electricity generation. Last week, he signed an order to rescind and rewrite federal water regulations.

The number of regulations that were added in the last eight years is staggering, Stead said. Im hopeful that Congress cleans up the regulations that were put in place that are not helpful, while leaving in place rules that serve a purpose.

Stead also sees the potential introduction of a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions as positive for the industry.

For the first time theres a very serious discussion about carbon tax, said Stead, who will retire at the end of the year after joining IHS as executive chairman in 2000.

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NEW DELHI After three high-profile attacks on Indians in the United States in 10 days two of them being investigated as possible hate crimes concerns about travel to the country are rising in India.

A Sikh man was shot in the arm Friday outside his home in the Seattle area by a man who reportedly shouted, Go back to your own country! the Seattle Times reported. The man, Deep Rai, is expected to recover; authorities are investigating the incident as a suspected hate crime.

The Seattle-area shooting follows the Feb. 22 attack on two Indian computer engineers Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani in a Kansas bar that left one dead and was condemned by President Donald Trump as an act of hate about a week later. On Thursday, a convenience store owner was fatally shot in South Carolina. An investigation is ongoing, but authorities said they have not seen evidence of a hate crime.

The attacks have prompted some in India seeking to visit, study or work in the United States to cancel or change their plans.

Erdogan accuses Germany

COLOGNE, Germany A series of canceled campaign rallies planned by Turkish politicians in Germany has incurred the wrath of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who Sunday accused Germany of Nazi practices.

Officials in various German localities called off planned events this week at which Turkish ministers were scheduled to rally support for an upcoming referendum that would greatly empower Mr. Erdogan and weaken Parliament.

About 1.4 million Turks living in Germany are eligible to vote in the referendum, which is set for April 16.

The Netherlands has banned a planned rally of Turks in Rotterdam later this week, and Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern Sunday called for a European Union-side wide ban on all such campaigning.

Ties between Turkey and Germany have been strained over Mr. Erdogans crackdown on opponents following the failed attempt to topple him in July.

Crisis on border

KABUL, Afghanistan Pakistan has kept its border crossings with Afghanistan sealed for more than two weeks, with thousands of Afghan visitors stranded in Pakistan and traders unable to move their vegetables and fruit across.

After a suicide bombing in Pakistans Sindh province on Feb. 16, which killed more than 80 people, the Pakistani military shut its borders with Afghanistan, saying the terrorists behind the attack had sanctuaries in the country. It also carried out cross-border shelling into Afghanistan.

Omar Zakhilwal, Afghanistans ambassador to Pakistan, said Sunday that if the border did not open soon, his government would be forced to airlift its stranded citizens.

Hunger in Venezuela

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Employees will be paid 9,800 for the role, as well as having all of their travel expenses paid for

Do you consider yourself a learned lager drinker, or maybe an ale aficionado? Then this job is probably for you.

A craft beer chain is advertising for three people to travel around the world and drink beer for them.

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The internship runs for three months over the summer and the employees will be paid $12,000 (9,800) for the role, as well as having all of their travel expenses paid for.

The post at Florida-based craft beer bar chain World of Beer involves visiting pub, bars and breweries across the globe and sampling their wares.

They also have document their experience through blog posts, videos and photos on the companys social media pages.

So basically, drink beer and write about it on Facebook, which is what a millions of peoplealready do on their weekends for free.

Terry Haley, the companys CEO said: World of Beer was established with the belief that great beer and beer stories have an inordinate ability to connect people and create lasting memories.

Our Drink It interns embody this belief as they document their journey through craft beer culture, to offer a fresh and highly personal perspective to the craft beer community.

Anyone who fancies the job can apply online until March 26, so long as they are over 21 and authorised to work in the US.

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This job will pay you to travel around the world and drink beer - The Sun

Over the last 20 years, Ive traveled across six continents, 42 states, 84 countries and more than 500 cities -- mostly for free. Here are my top five tips for you to travel for free (or almost) while building your business or career:

Before you quit to start your business, apply for jobs that pay you to travel and rack up points. One of my first criteria for applying for a job is whether I am working with clients or team members in another region.

My first job out of college entailed meeting with key influencers to launch products in every major city in the U.S. Thats 30 states conquered in one year, along with 200,000 frequent flyer miles, which paid for my first trip to Italy and France. Now, I have more than 500,000 miles at my disposal for business trips to pitch my startups.

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My next job required regular meetings with strategic partner companies in Germany and Denmark. Rather than randomly picking airlines when I traveled, I chose the Star Alliance network with a hub at Newark Airport. This enabled me to fly direct from my home base in New York for meetings in Frankfurt and Copenhagen, or any other destination. I was able to keep accumulating points using my Star Alliance membership across member airlines.

To choose between Star Alliance, OneWorld, SkyTeam or AsiaMiles, find the ones that flies most to the region you are focused on conquering. By choosing Star Alliance partners, I was able to keep accumulating points in one account and "level up" to platinum elite levels for free upgrades, executive lounge access and bonus points (100 to 200 percent more).

This applied at my next four global jobs, when I was flying more to Asia or the Middle East. I was still able to choose flights from the top two most extensive airline networks, OneWorld and Star Alliance, and earn upgrades on almost every flight. Loyalty certainly has its privileges.

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Every business and reimbursable travel expense should be charged on the credit card with the most valuable and versatile membership points. For example, American Express Gold allows you to transfer points to airlines or hotels clubs or to buy tickets directly using your membership points. Some credit cards, like British Airways or Chase Sapphire Reserve, offered a launch bonus of100,000 points and no/reduced fee for the first year; these points are worth a few trips to Europe or Asia. More than eight years later, I still havent used up all my points from these bonuses yet.

Chase Sapphire Reserve has the added bonus of a $300 travel credit per year, $100 off the Global Entry application fee and complimentary access to more than 900 airport executive lounges with Priority Pass Select,all of which offsetits higher annual fee. Along with the 100,000 points bonus, that's worth over $2,100! Always jump on those launch incentives.

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Most of the time, flights are more expensive coming home on Friday because everyone else wants to go home as well. Take the following Monday off and fly home off-peak or on a red-eye on Sunday. This way, you can visit a neighboring country or city over the weekend or fly a low-cost regional airline to some place you havent been yet. Using points for regional flights is much cheaper than from your home base.

For example, flights on British Airways all throughout Europe to its Asian neighbors can be as low as 5,000 to10,000 points. When I was a management consultant working in the Middle East, instead of expensing the weekend in the hotel there, I chose to use my Avios points (earned on my British Airways credit card and flights) to fly to and stay in Sri Lanka, Dubai, Egypt, Maldives, Jordan, Oman and Lebanon for free or much cheaper than flying from New York.

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Many airlines offer free stopovers in their hub city. According to the airline rules, you can stay one to fivedays without additional fees in Iceland on Icelandair, Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, Dubai on Emirates or London on British Airways. Typically, you can see most of the major sites in 48 hours in those cities. In Iceland, the Blue Lagoon has a 10-minute bus shuttle to take you from the airport to the famous milky blue hot springs for a massage while floating on a foam mat -- and it gets you back in time for your flight five to eight hours later.

For subsequent trips, you can use your points to book aflight to another country during the stopover period. For example, Macau, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Kaohsiung and Singapore are easily accessible for the weekend from Hong Kong during the stopover. Hong Kong has a convenient Airport Express check-in that enables you to send your bags onto your flight 24 hours in advance while you take a ferry to Macau for the rest of the day and then another ferry straight to the airport.

On my way to Bali, I chose Korean Airlines, which enabled me to stop over in Seoul and enjoy a spa day, Korean barbecue, walking tour of the old town and karaoke, for 24 hours before continuing my journey.

While these may be whirlwind opportunities to see nearby countries, youll get a pretty good sense of whether you want to go back. With the points you are accumulating on business, you can always go back for personal vacations for free. Through all these ways, the world can be conquered for free, one point at a time!

Grace Lee is a world traveler, serial entrepreneur, healthcare advisor, business strategy designer and life coach. She founded WishPoints, Inc. to help you travel freely and Health Enovation, Inc. to help entrepreneurs and executives with s...

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If there's one thing better than drinking tons of beer and traveling all summer like it's your damn job, it's getting paid for drinking tons of beer and traveling all summer because it is your job. Believe it or not, that's actually possible now thanks to a new internship that will pay you thousands of dollars to travel the world, drink beer, and tell your stories on social media this summer. Yes, really.

World of Beer, a Florida-based chain of more 70 craft beer taverns, announced Wednesday that it's currently looking for three "Drink It" interns who will be tasked with visiting numerous breweries across the country and abroad, tasting all sorts of beer, attending major beer events and festivals, and sharing live updates from the boozy adventure via social media, according to the official job description. Although it's not a longterm job with a salary or traditional benefits, like last year, the internship last four months and World of Beer will pay you $12,000 and cover all your travel expenses. Oh, and there will be plenty of free beer, of course.

"The selected Drink It Interns will be World of Beer narrators, capturing content from around the country and the world and sharing it back via WOB social media channels to fans, bringing fresh stories and new insights in the world of brew traveling," the company said. "The interns will be reporting on a behind-the-scenes look at the beer industry, covering brewery and WOB events, while gaining real-world experience in a professional field that offers limitless possibilities."

To apply for the spectacularly sudsy internship, follow the instructions detailed on World of Beer's website(HERE)and submit your application before the March 26th deadline. The most important part of your application, however, is submitting a one-minute video in which you share your passion for beer, or the story of your life-changing beer experience, or an ode to your all-time favorite beer -- something that showcases your personality and makes you stand out. Hannah Davis, World of Beer's Director of Brand Marketing, offered this advice:

"That passion for beer has to come through really strong in the initial video, but that doesnt mean you have to be an expert," she said. "[Applicants] should be able to tell a story. I want to learn something in the video, so they should catch our eye and be memorable."

The best applicants will be called in for a live interview before a panel of"beer-lebrity judges" that World of Beer will be hosting at its outposts in nine cities (see the full list on its website) across the US on April 8. As a bonus, customers at these locations will receive a free beer for voting for their favorite applicant. World of Beer said it doesn't matter if you're still in college, a recent graduate, or even a full-time grown-up, just as long as you're at least 21, from the US, and able to work part-time.

World of Beer plans to officially select the three interns in late April. If you're lucky enough to get the job, you'll set off on your beer-soaked journey across the world in the weeks after that, and with any luck, you'll come back with expert-level beer knowledge, insane stories to tell, and all the industry experience you'll need to land your next beer-related dream job. Oh, and probably a hangover.

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Tony Merevick is Cities News Editor at Thrillist and wonders: does drinking beer on the job count as getting paid to drink beer? Send news tips to news@thrillist.com and follow him on Twitter @tonymerevick.

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EU Lawmakers Call for End to Visa-Free Travel for Americans New York Times In the vote on Thursday, European lawmakers played tit-for-tat in their dispute with the United States, demanding restrictions on American travelers unless the Trump administration lifts travel requirements for citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus ... The European Union Announces the End of Visa-Free TravelMen's Journal European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for AmericansThe Independent Europe business humming, but ending visa-free travel would hurtTravel Weekly Washington Post -U.S. News & World Report -Fox News -Reuters all 126 news articles »

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Getting paid to travel is basically the dream, but getting paid to travel and drink beer is an even better gig, if you can swing it.

The bar chain World of Beer is currently hiring three people to explore breweries and beer culture across the globe, all while documenting their adventures on the brand's social media channels. The ideal "Drink It Interns" love meeting new people, hitting the road and of course drinking lots and lots of booze. A background in blogging, photography and video doesn't hurt, either.

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Last season's interns visited Berlin, Prague and Dublin as part of their tour, so a knowledge of pilsners and stouts could literally take you around the world, all on WOB's dime. Plus, the position pays out cool $12,000 for "working" from May through August. That said, a die-hard IPA fan would probably take this job for free.

If ditching everything for an alcohol-fueled summer sounds right up your alley, you have until March 26 to apply. Candidates need to fill out a short application and create a one-minute video demonstrating they're up for the task. WOB will then select a lucky group for in-person interviews at franchise locations around the country.

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Thursday, she spoke to a crowd in the Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College, as part of the college's Cultural Thursday series, about her experiences. She visited 41 countries in three years, traveling from southeast Asia through Dubai to Eastern Europe, South Africa and South America.

One of Allene's guiding principles on her trip was the idea that a good attitude, surrounded by gratitude, can help you get along with anyone in the world. Throughout her journey, she said, she was welcomed with open arms and generosity by those she met.

"This is one big, beautiful world," Allene said. "And despite what you hear in the news and the media these days, it's safer than you know."

Allene's first foray into world travel came at the age of 17, when she joined her parents on a cruise through the Greek Islands, drove the coast of what was then Yugoslavia and then flew out of Rome. As of today, she's visited 67 countries and can't wait to visit more. Some of the destinations she's looking forward to include Russia, Poland, Sweden, Norway and more of the African continent.

"I would go tomorrow," Allene said.

Allene's mother died in 2012, and on March 2, 2013, Allene started her journey with a flight to Japan. Through the Worldwide Organization of Organic Farming, she stayed with a Japanese woman for two weeks in exchange for helping her with her farm. Allene's host was expecting a more seasoned farmhand, so Allene had to work hard to prove she could do the work.

"She and I became very good friends," Allene said.

Allene spent about a month in each country and didn't commit to a travel schedule. She stayed in hostels, hotel rooms and tents, as well as with anyone she might know who lived abroad.

"I also used every lead that I ever got," Allene said. "If somebody had any lead for me, I just went with it."

Allene was involved in the Community Colleges for International Development program when it still existed at CLC. On her travels, she was able to meet up with six students who had studied at CLC. She met former students in Ireland, South Africa and New Delhi, India, where she had them take her to the slums.

"These children and these people, they just blew my mind," Allene said. "They were so giving, so wonderful, so beautiful."

Allene met a travel photographer friend in New Delhi and accompanied him on a five-week-long photoshoot in northern India, Tibet and Nepal. The photographer's mission was to document the large monasteries in the region, which included extensive driving on treacherous mountain roads. By chance, they got to see the Dalai Lama speak in northern India on this excursion.

Some of Allene's magical travel moments included flying over Mount Everest, going through a packed tollbooth in India, seeing a tribe of long-necked people in Burma and going on a safari in Africa. A friend took her to Thaipusam, a Hindu festival in Malaysia she later learned 1.5 million people had attended.

Only twice in three years did Allene get scared, she said. Once was in Laos while riding a bicycle when a man on a motorbike rode up alongside her and tried to steal her purse. The other time was in Beijing when she met two friendly, English-speaking women who tried to stick her with a bill at a teahouse.

The food on Allene's journey was unusual, she said, and confirmed people around the world eat bugs. She ate beetles, heavily seasoned with spices, in Thailand, and drank coffee in Indonesia made from beans excreted by an animal. She loved going to food markets because she truly didn't know what she was going to see. Toilets throughout the world ranged from Japanese thrones with numerous buttons to outhouses made from nothing more than a hole in the ground, Allene said. On her travels, Allene relied on hand signals and smiles to communicate, she said. Some of the best interactions she had were with people who didn't speak English.

People often ask Allene which country she visited on her trip was her favorite, she said. Her response is she loved every place and embraced them all. If pushed, though, she said her favorite place was Vietnam, because she grew up during the Vietnam War and wasn't sure how she would be received there.

"They were so grateful that I was in their country and they welcomed me with open arms," Allene said.

Allene ended up with reverse culture shock upon her return to the Brainerd lakes area. She was shocked by the numerous product options in stores and lamented how easily things are disposed of in America.

"I felt like I had been in a coma for three years," Allene said. "So much had changed and nothing had changed."

To take advantage of her love of travel, Allene started her own world travel consultant company, World Enterprises LLC, known as Claudia Around the World Tours. According to the company's website, she focuses on small group travel to exotic destinations.

"What I would like to encourage you to do is to go as far away as you can, for as long as you can," Allene said. "And embrace this different culture."

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When the whole curious, beautiful world seems to loom expectant with possibility, we asked 23 travel experts: "Where's the best place you've ever been?"

Those we spoke toamong them the founder of Tiny Atlas Quarterly magazine, the director of the world's largest adventure travel company, BAZAAR.com's travel editor and an affordable-travel protravel constantly and, like all frequent nomads, struggle with this deceptively simple question. How to choose just one? But after a little hedging and some flip-flopping, they each landed on the one place most etched in their brainsdestinations (and experiences) that range from visually astounding to physically challenging to, in some instances, utterly life-changing.

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Florida-based craft beer bar chainWorld of Beeris back with its Drink It internship, offering three lucky beer fans the chance to spend the summer traveling the globeand enjoying incredible brews along the way.

The company is currently taking applications for three interns who will spend May through August journeying through the states and abroad, scouring breweries and taverns and sharing their stories across World of Beers social media channels.

Interns will take fans behind-the-scenes of what it takes to create some of the worlds most beloved brews, all while getting free beer,$12,000, and all travel expenses paid for.

The company introduced the dream internship last year, and unsurprisinglybrought it back due to popular demand.

Interns will be responsible for blogging, capturing video, taking photos, and creating social media content surrounding their beer travels, and will be expected togetcomfortable in front of the camera as well.

World of Beer was established with the belief that great beer and beer stories have an inordinate ability to connect people, establish community, and create lasting memories, Terry Haley, the companys CEO, said in a press release.

Our Drink It interns embody this belief as they document their journey through craft beer culture, to offer a fresh and highly personal perspective to the craft beer community, while gaining career and life skills along the journey, Haley added.

Everyone from photographers and writers to social media lovers, food lovers, and beer bloggers are invited to apply, though candidates will need to be 21 and be legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of the internship.

Candidates can submit an online application until March 26. Thosewho make it to round two will be asked to come in foran in-person interview at one of World of Beers locations across the country.

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Have laptop. Will Travel. Life of a digital nomad.

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Want to be a freelancer? Check out the 10 best cities for freelancers and digital nomads.

News travels fast through the grapevine; someone you know is now sitting on a beach in Thailand and earns a living by working online. An idyllic image of a long stretch of sandy beach fringed by palm trees enters your mind. How can someone be so lucky? Dont envy them. You can do that too. The world is now a well-connected place, meaning you can literally work from anywhere and at any time. If you want to quit your nine-to-five job in a characterless office cubicle and become a cyber nomad, working from one foreign city to another, read on to discover the top 10 interesting cities for cyber nomads to chill.

10. Vilnius, Lithuania

Not as exotic as Thailand, but Lithuania had the fastest public Wi-Fi in 2016 (taking both download and upload speeds into consideration). This factor alone is enough to bring a smile to any cyber nomad. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, it has Europes largest baroque Old Town which is UNESCO-listed, and also plays host to a lively student population, a zinging nightlife and an ever-evolving spread of bars, cafs and restaurants. Accommodation wise, you can rent a place for about 400 Euros (US$425) per month.

"For information on Vilnius, such as getting around, things to see, nightlife and restaurants, check out the Vilnius Travel Guide."

9. Qingdao, China

The birthplace of the famous Tsingtao beer (both Qingdao and Tsingtao have the same pronunciation though the latter is Germanised) is a beautiful seaside city which still preserves its concession-era architecture and the unique Japanese and German influence. Situated between the Yellow Sea and Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao enjoys its own micro-climate with warmer winters and cooler summers. You can sit on its golden sandy beach and enjoy free Wi-Fi, though you may prefer to use the inexpensive 4G mobile service offered by any of the providers. Fresh seafood dominates the menu, and you can rent an apartment near the seaside for around 3,000 Chinese Yuan (US$435) a month. Before jetting off to Qingdoa, its important to check out the China Visa & Passport Requirements.

8. Cape Town, South Africa

Africas main tech hub, lively Cape Town is ideal for techies who enjoy watching sun rises from the summit of Table Mountain and drinking Cape Chardonnay at lunch in a waterfront bistro. If the beautiful scenery doesnt keep you occupied, several Information and Communications Technology (ICT) initiatives around town will after all, it isnt nicknamed Silicon Cape without a reason. When it comes to the cost of living, expect to pay 16 South African Rand (US$1.23) for a bottle of local beer in the supermarket, while a decent room can cost around 10,000 South African Rand (US$766) a month. Check out the Cape Town Travel Guide before you go.

7. Valencia, Spain

Founded in antiquity, Valencia was once ruled by the Romans and the Moors, before becoming a key Mediterranean port town in the 15th century. The Old Town is gorgeous, the beaches are pleasant, and the craft beer scene is burgeoning. Many cafs and restaurants offer free Wi-Fi. You can work in between mouthful of delicious Paella, which originated near the Albufera lagoon just south of Valencia. The Metro system is excellent this means you can rent cheaply in a far-flung suburb but still get to downtown in less than 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can also pay around 1,200 Euros (US$1,300) a month for a sea-view apartment and jog along its sandy beach every morning.

"Visit the Valencia Travel Guide for useful information."

6. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Good news first: the government is in the process of rolling out free Wi-Fi across Ho Chi Minh City. Now the bad news: the connection speed isnt fast. But the city still attracts digital nomads in hordes because the place is like a spacecraft; its engineers may still be working on its matter-antimatter reactors but you know that it will roar off into the future in warp speed soon. Its an exciting time in HCM you can feel the pulse of the city and its quickening heartbeat and you just wont want to leave. In the city, you can rent a flat for around 10 million Vietnamese dong (US$440) a month, while a bowl of hot, steaming and delicious Pho from the market costs as little as 20,000 dong (US$0.88).

"Youll be surprised to learn that Ho Chi Minh City is ideal for you to get your entry level diving course under your belt. Click on our Ho Chi Minh City Travel Guide for more information."

5. Santiago, Chile

Chile has the highest broadband penetration in South America. Its dynamic capital, Santiago, has buzzing boulevards and very edgy neighbourhoods fit for creative nomads who appreciate choices in life. There is so much to do in Santiago; you can raft down the Andes meltwater, hike in the Patagonian wilderness, or surf the swells west of the city. When it comes to work, free Wi-Fi is readily available in most cafs, just ask for clave (which literally means key) and they will write it on a piece of paper for you. You can even get free Wi-Fi in many of its metro stations. Rental wise, you can find accommodation for about 320,000 Chilean peso (US$500) a month in a relatively good neighbourhood. Dont forget to check out the Santiago Travel Guide before you go.

4. Ko Samui, Thailand

There is a chain of three beautiful islands in the Gulf of Thailand: Ko Samui, Ko Pha Ngan, and Ko Tao. Ko Samui is the biggest island and most suitable for digital nomads thanks to its accessibility (flying in and out is easy), high number of free Wi-Fi zones, lovely beaches, and a very relaxing atmosphere. For some exhilarating fun, take a short boat ride to Ko Pha Ngan and join 30,000 tourists for the monthly Full Moon Party. You can live inexpensively in Ko Samui, paying as little as 9,000 Thai Baht (US$258) a month for a place, or you can splash out and rent a villa complete with a pool for 35,000 Thai Baht (US$1,000) a month. Refer to our essential Thailand Travel Guide especially if you want to use Ko Samui as a base to explore Thailand.

3. Tallinn, Estonia

Estonia is fast becoming as one of Europes startup capitals. In fact, its one of the few countries in the world that believes that Internet access is a human right. This belief drives a thriving IT culture, couple that with its low cost of living and widespread use of English, you can see why digital nomads congregate at the many cafs and shared workspaces in Tallinn, the capital city. Expect to sit on golden sandy beaches in the summer and join the beach party when the sun goes down check out the Tallinn Travel Guide for things to do and see. Accommodation wise, you can rent a nice place for about 500 Euros (US$530) per month.

2. Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chiang Mai has been crowned the best place by digital nomads multiple times. The city draws you in with its balmy weather, great food, and excellent networking programmes dedicated to digital nomads. If spending too much time in front of the laptop is stressing you out, head to town for a Thai massage or participate in the citys Monk Chat program, where you sit at a round table and talk to young monks and their teachers. Chiang Mais nightlife is buzzing with excitement and focused in three main areas all the information is included in our Chiang Mai Travel Guide. When it comes to cost of living, Chiang Mai is cheaper than Bangkok and other southern cities. A stylish and fully furnished one-bedroom apartment costs around 10,000 Thai Baht (US$285) a month.

1. Johor Bahru, Malaysia and Singapore

Being resourceful is a trait shared by many successful digital nomads. So how do you take advantage of Singapores ubiquitous high-speed broadband and mobile network without forking out at least 4,000 Singapore Dollars (US$2,800) living expenses a month? By living in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and taking the bus to Singapore. The distance between these two countries is just 10km (6 miles), but the contrast cant be more startling. While Singapore is expensive, Johor Bahru is cheap you can rent an apartment for about 1,500 Ringgit (USD$336) a month. To get to Singapore, just hop on buses 170, CW1, CW2 they all take you straight into Singapore; though we recommend once you reach Singapore, get off at Kranji Metro Station and change to the highly efficient Metro, or MRT as it is locally known. Alternatively, you can get bus CW3 which uses the second causeway. Just one word of advice: avoid peak hours. This winning combination also allows you to use both countries as a base to explore Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

"Fancy using these countries as a base? Check out our Malaysia Travel Guide and Singapore Travel Guide for more information."

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Want to get a great hotel deal? Pack an umbrella, and maybejust maybea warm coat.

Hotel rates plunge in destinations around the world outside of peak months, rewarding travelers with not just cheap nightly rates, but a city that isnt flooded with fellow travelers, jostling to get into the best restaurants, museums, or beaches.

A night in some of the worlds most popular destinations drop more than 40% outside of peak months for visitors, according to data released Tuesday from online travel agency and review site TripAdvisor.

For example, average hotel rates in Spain averaged $219 in the blistering heat of August, during European vacation season. Brave a few rain showers and cooler temperatures in January and youll pay 43% less, at just $124 a night on average. For warmer temperatures, Spanish hotels averaged $154 for March.

Of course its reasonable to want to avoid the July to September monsoon season in India, or Caribbean destinations during the June to November hurricane season. In that case, shoulder-season deals also offer some savings. Caribbean hotel rates were 20% cheaper at $421 a night in April than in the peak month of February. In India, hotel rates were lowest in May at $101 a night, though its the hottest month of the year. But travelers can always gamble on the weather by purchasing travel insurance that allows them to cancel if adverse weather can spoil the trip.

The travel site analyzed data from 2016 bookings, but at the rate hotels are being built, some deals may be even better this year.

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Airport officials and civil rights lawyers are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban

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Asti Gallina, left, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, sits at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, center, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, works at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Pedestrians walk through a skybridge at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport near the international arrivals area, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Port of Seattle workers Aaron Washington, left, and Tracy Jenkins, right, carry a table and snacks into a room near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. The airport is making the room available for lawyers and legal volunteers to meet with family members and others picking up or dropping off international travels to answer questions and assure that they are able to travel with out difficulty. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, right, and Emily McDaniel, left, both volunteer law students, talk to a traveler as they staff a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina and McDaniel were volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, sits at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Port of Seattle workers Aaron Washington, right, and Tracy Jenkins, left, set up tables and snacks in a room near where passengers arrive on international flights at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. The airport is making the room available for lawyers and legal volunteers to meet with family members and others picking up or dropping off international travelers to answer questions and assure that they are able to travel with out difficulty. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, left, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, sits at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, left, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, sits at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Port of Seattle workers Aaron Washington, left, and Tracy Jenkins, right, carry a table and snacks into a room near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. The airport is making the room available for lawyers and legal volunteers to meet with family members and others picking up or dropping off international travels to answer questions and assure that they are able to travel with out difficulty. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, right, and Emily McDaniel, left, both volunteer law students, talk to a traveler as they staff a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina and McDaniel were volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Asti Gallina, center, a volunteer law student from the University of Washington, works at a station near where passengers arrive on international flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Seattle. Gallina was volunteering with the group Airport Lawyer, which also offers a secure website and mobile phone app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble. Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which is expected to be released as soon as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

SEATTLE (AP) Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump's new travel ban mindful of the chaos that accompanied his initial executive order but hopeful the forthcoming version will be rolled out in a more orderly way.

The new order was expected as soon as Wednesday. A draft suggested it would target people from the same seven predominantly Muslim countries but would exempt travelers who already have visas to come to the U.S.

Since last month's ban, which courts have put on hold, a section of the international arrivals area at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital has been transformed into a virtual law firm, with legal volunteers ready to greet travelers from affected countries and ask if they saw anyone being detained.

Similar efforts are underway at other airports, including Seattle-Tacoma International, where officials have drawn up plans for crowd control after thousands crammed the baggage claim area to protest the original ban.

"The plan is to be as ready as possible," said Lindsay Nash, an immigration law professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York who has been helping prepare emergency petitions on behalf of those who might be detained.

Trump's initial action, issued Jan. 27, temporarily barred citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya from coming to the U.S. and halted acceptance of all refugees. The president said his administration would review vetting procedures amid concerns about terrorism in those seven nations.

Protesters flooded U.S. airports that weekend, seeking to free travelers detained by customs officials amid confusion about who could enter the country, including U.S. permanent residents known as green-card holders.

Attorneys also challenged the order in court, including officials from Washington state. That lawsuit, which Minnesota joined, resulted in a federal judge temporarily blocking the government from enforcing the travel ban, a decision unanimously upheld by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Many civil rights lawyers and activists have said they don't believe a new order would cure all the constitutional problems of the original, including the claim that it was motivated by anti-Muslim discrimination.

Trump has said he singled out the seven countries because they had already been deemed a security concern by the Obama administration.

In his first address to Congress on Tuesday night, Trump said his administration "is taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism" and is working on improved vetting procedures.

"And we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe and to keep out those who would do us harm," Trump said.

Last week, analysts at the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries pose a terror threat to the United States.

"It's not enough to just tweak an order and not change the nature of why it was issued in the first place," said Rula Aoun, director of the Arab American Civil Rights League in Dearborn, Michigan, which sued over the initial ban and is prepared to do the same with the rewrite if necessary.

In New York, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt said the organization was ready to go to court if the administration tries to immediately enforce its new order.

"The primary focus is being able to respond immediately to any request by the government to lift any of the injunctions, before the courts have had a chance to examine the new order," he said.

Activists and airport officials alike said they hoped it would be phased in to give travelers fair warning, which might preclude any detentions from arriving flights.

"We are prepared and willing," said Rebecca Sharpless, who runs the immigration clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. "But it's unlikely to cause the same kind of chaos of last time."

At Dulles, Sea-Tac, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other airports, legal volunteers have greeted arriving travelers in shifts every day since the initial ban, wearing name tags or posting signs in different languages to identify themselves.

The legal-services nonprofit OneJustice was ready to send email alerts to 3,000 volunteers in California if needed, deploying them to San Francisco and Los Angeles airports for people affected by any new order, chief executive Julia Wilson said.

In Chicago, travelers have been signing up for an assistance program started by the local Council on American-Islamic Relations office to ensure swift legal help if they're detained.

Groups urged those arriving at 17 other airports, including Miami, Atlanta and San Diego, to register with Airport Lawyer , a secure website and free mobile app that alerts volunteer lawyers to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble.

Asti Gallina, a third-year student at the University of Washington Law School, volunteered at Sea-Tac for the first time Tuesday. It was quiet, she said.

"An essential part of the American narrative is the ability to come to America," Gallina said. "Any infringement of that is something that needs to be resisted."

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Associated Press writers Tammy Webber and Sophia Tareen in Chicago; Deepti Hajela and Larry Neumeister in New York; Matthew Barakat in Alexandria, Virginia; Adriana Gomez Licon in Miami; and Amy Forliti in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show that Cardozo Law School is in New York, not affiliated with New York University

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The fact of the matter is this: Travel scares a lot of people. The fear of the unknown keeps many of us from striking out on the road and chasing adventure. It makes us hesitate, waffle, and (all too often) pick the easy route rather than the more fulfilling one.

Were here to break down those fears and show people a world thats worth traveling for. Thats why we share stories like the one youre reading. In fact, its the basis for the whole The Mad Ones series. We want to remind people: You can do this, other people are.

Last week, I sat down with adventurer Rosie Gabrielle to discuss the fear of Islam, traveling with chronic illness, life on the road as solo female traveler, and riding badass motorcycles like well a badass.

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The Trump administration is finalizing a revised travel ban that exempts current visa holders, according to people familiar with the matter.

The revision marks a significant departure from the now- frozen first executive order, which temporarily barred citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries and all refugees from entering the United States and resulted in the State Department revoking tens of thousands of visas. Justice Department lawyers hope the new order will be more likely to withstand legal challenges and will not leave any travelers detained at U.S. airports.

The new order also removes an exception to the refugee prohibition for religious minorities, one person said. Critics of the order had said that that exception proved the order was meant to discriminate on the basis of religion, because it allowed only Christians into the country.

The new order, the details of which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is expected to be signed Wednesday, though other news outlets reported that would likely be delayed. The people who described it to The Washington Post did so on the condition of anonymity because the administration had not authorized the release of details. The people said that the situation is fluid and that changes are still possible.

There will be a period between when the order is signed and when it takes effect, in hopes of avoiding the problems that occurred when the last order was implemented. While blocking only the issuance of new visas marks a substantial change, analysts have said that this would not necessarily be enough for the order to pass legal muster.

Spokesmen for the White House, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security declined to comment for this report.

A federal district judge in Washington state first suspended the travel ban Feb.3, and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit later upheld that freeze. The Justice Department has since asked the courts to hold off on further litigation while a new executive order was crafted, although the Court of Appeals told the parties to press ahead with the case.

While that has been ongoing, refugees as well as people from the seven affected countries have been able to enter the United States subject to normal individual screenings on arrival.

The president has broad authority to set immigration policy, although Trumps first executive order was implemented in such a way that most judges agreed that the directive or at least aspects of it should be suspended. Judges have yet to weigh whether the ban is constitutional. Trump and his top spokesmen have asserted that they feel they are on strong legal footing, despite short-term losses.

The White House counsel already had clarified that the ban did not apply to legal permanent residents, although courts have said they could not rely on that assertion because it was a separate statement and not part of the executive order. Officials hope the new executive order will allay that concern and also reduce the number of plaintiffs who have the right to sue.

Even that, though, might not go far enough. The 9th Circuit panel that ruled the ban should remain frozen said such a revision would not address claims by citizens who have an interest in specific noncitizens ability to travel to the United States. That, analysts have said, might be referring to the foreign wife of a U.S. citizen who is seeking a visa.

A spokesman for Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had successfully sued to freeze the ban, said, Our current stance is to wait and see the particulars, which could make all the difference.

Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Unions national Immigrants Rights Project, who is involved in a separate legal challenge, said, If the new executive order contains a ban, we believe it is unconstitutional religious discrimination and will therefore continue our legal challenges.

The administration must also contend with comments the president and top allies and his advisers have made, which could serve as evidence that the ban was intended to discriminate on religious grounds. On the campaign trail, Trump called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. And after the election, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said: So when [Trump] first announced it, he said, Muslim ban. He called me up. He said, Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.

A federal judge in Virginia referenced those comments in ordering the ban frozen with respect to Virginia residents and institutions, calling it unrebutted evidence that Trumps directive might violate the First Amendment. That is important, because if judges found that even the new order was designed to discriminate against Muslims and not to protect national security they might similarly strike it down.

Justice Department lawyers will have to try to convince judges that there is a national security reason for the ban and that it is not a tool for discrimination. That the new order will not include an exception for religious minorities which had been seen as a way to get only Christians into the country is likely to bolster the governments case, particularly if Justice Department lawyers persuade the judiciary to look mostly at the executive order itself for evidence of the administrations purpose.

But analysts said the new order cannot wash away completely the stains of the old one especially after senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said that the revised version would have mostly minor technical differences and that Americans would see the same basic policy outcome for the country.

And the Department of Homeland Securitys Office of Intelligence and Analysis recently produced a report casting doubt on the need for the executive order, concluding that citizenship of a particular country is an unreliable threat indicator and that people from the seven countries named in the original ban have rarely been implicated in U.S.-based terrorism.

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