For example, I checked-in to a local pub during my last trip to Boston.
And when they do, it is often a quick trip to the local fast-food outlet.
The programme of events includes a trip to a local blackcurrant farm and a jam factory.
Stray from the paths and you'll find hidden coves, mostly deserted but occasionally filled with local schoolchildren on a day trip.
In addition, reclining seats covered in soft wool felt, plus love seats, sofas and individual brass tables for popcorn and drinks promise to make this more than just a trip to your local cinema.
And yes, the cameraman did break out in a peculiar rash in the spice market, causing us all to wonder if we needed to make an emergency trip to the local hospital.
Authorities said Ms. Gillespie, a mother of four adult children, was returning to her Prospect Heights apartment from a shopping trip to the local Key Food on Dec. 17, 2011, when she left the elevator at the fifth floor to find Mr. Isaac standing there.
The serendipitous discovery of goods while casually flipping through an advertising circular in the newspaper or an array of products on a tablet, that results in a trip to the local store, and concludes with cashing in on an in-store promotion using a mobile phone, can create a shopping experience that is unmatched.
Thus began the email response from the Tanzanian community leader regarding my offer to help the local girls during an upcoming service trip to Africa.
Normally, getting in on the updates requires a trip to your friendly local service center -- or, for the 95 percent of us outside driving distance, saying goodbye to your mobile buddy for a couple days.
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Because it involved storing the stuff somewhere in your house or garage until you got around to making a trip down to a local recycling facility, where they paid you maybe pennies on the pound for whatever your household had accumulated, or maybe they paid you nothing but good feelings.
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It was throwing a farewell party for a few local boys getting ready for their first trip abroad.
Retailers are also using daily deal services like Groupon for all they are worth, and that includes the malls. (Recently spotted on LivingSocial, a Black Friday VIP shopping trip for two at a local shopping center that included parking).
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The Rocky Mountain trip was co-organized by local chapters out of Colorado and Oklahoma of the Model T Ford Club of America.
The course included a trip to South America and meetings with local artisans.
Local farmers feel they are being listened to, and local Latinos mostly seem to have approved of the trip (the complaints came from Florida).
In countries like Vietnam and India where many people still get around on bicycle, visitors often find that cycling for all or part of their trip can offer the greatest opportunity to appreciate local life--the scents, sights and sounds that pass you by if you're whizzing through town in a taxi on the way to and from your hotel.
So I took the opportunity last month during a late-winter trip to Colorado to sample as many of the local microbrew offerings as my liver and the altitude would allow.
Urooj Khan said he had sworn off gambling after making a trip to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim hajj pilgrimage, local store employee Ashur Oshana told the Associated Press.
On a recent trip to Doha, he says he ate his meals on local time even when he wasn't hungry to try help his liver get synchronized more quickly to the local clock.
On the last trip a group began work on what will likely be a local business micro-incubator as there are a lot of craftsmen who only need a few hundred dollars to get a business up and running and a lot of ex-executives who know how to distribute and sell unique handmade products.
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Some say local authorities sometimes make exceptions for parades, a quick test drive or a trip to the gas station.
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Sierra Leone were on the verge of pulling out for the same reason, but a local United Nations office came through to provide funding for the week-long trip.
They plan to interview fellow fliers to get the skinny on the best places to go in hopes of taking the "local's tour" of a city as opposed to a generic tourist trip for their Web site twelvehoursinacity.com.
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When Seasonz organized my trip to the Southern Alps (I was their guest), my local host in Queenstown had lived in that city for 20 years and knew absolutely everyone.
While I wasn't especially bent on winning for my own sake, I was keenly aware that my family, school, hometown and the local sponsoring newspaper had invested an awful lot of time, cash and care into my trip to Washington, and I did not want to fail them.
Gray told us his experiment with going completely car free doubled his trip from about an hour to more than two hours and included an unintentional detour to the local mall.
The trip is an effort to showcase the developing country's efforts at promoting healthy recreation and mentoring local youth.
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