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AGELLAN’S early spring catalog offers several travel tools that will enhance your journey anywhere in the world. Get yours at www.magellans.com or call 1-800-962-4943 and order up any of these worthy items and more.

Nylon construction makes the Eagle Creek Tarmac Exploration Series extremely lightweight for luggage. The Tarmac ES comes in four sizes from 20 inches for $220, to 28 inches for $300. The larger three sizes expand 2½ inches to give you an extra 15 percent room to pack those extras you bring back from your trip. There are inside and outside pockets, heavy duty zippers with zipper pulls, extra large wheels, and a bottom foot to help you lift the bag off the baggage carousel or from your car trunk.

WalkAbout Lite Rolling Tote, made of DuPont Teflon coated nylon, is so compact it’s a pleasure to carry on board. The front has a zippered pocket and an additional smaller pocket to hold your tickets. Two elastic pockets on the sides are for your water bottle, umbrella or rolled up magazine. $109.

Leather Document Wallet has an exterior boarding pass pocket, itinerary and currency sleeves, credit card slots, passport pocket, ID window, pen slot and a zippered coin pouch. Leather, tan or black, $39.85.

Andis Micro Turbo Hair Dryer packs 1600 watts of turbo power in its compact size. Its two heat/air settings and dual voltage makes it a good choice for your travel needs. Weighs 12 ounces, costs $24.85.

Slippers in Italian leather protect your feet in your hotel room while giving you utmost comfort. Good in-flight footwear, too. Comes in a zippered leather case. Black, whole sizes 9-13, $79.

Scottevest Convertible Travel Jacket is about the best I’ve come across. With 31 pockets (!) you can carry almost everything while touring,such as wallet, mobile phone, camera, maps, keys and water. Different pockets are zippered and designed for specific items. A card in each pocket suggests what it should hold. With one carry-on bag, and your extra items stored in this jacket, you can beat the two carry-on bag limit. Waterproof fabric, hidden removable hood, adjustable cuffs. $149.

Best Seat, a Magellan’s exclusive, features a microprocessor-controlled pump and valve system that alternates air pressure to lift and shift to conform to your body on the airplane or auto seat, allowing you to sit in full comfort for long-haul trips. Internal batteries last for 50 hours before recharging with a dual-voltage recharger. $225.

Rain Poncho, another Magellan’s exclusive, made of lightweight and stain resistant nylon and folds into its own pocket. Drawstring hood protects you from rain and wind. One sixe fits right over you and your backpack, if need be. $45.

Slip-ons with an anatomically correct footbed is great to breeze through airport security as well as for casual comfort all day. Rubber outsole makes it slip-resistant. $69.

Capture Your Music

AKE your old collection of cassettes and LPs and convert them into digital audio and create CDs and MP3 CDs. Now you have a collection of your music that will not degrade over time.

You can do this with Instant Music from ADS Tech. You plug it into a USB port on the computer and then record from cassette, turntable, TV, radio or DVD to CD, MP3 or your iPod.

Order for $49.99 at www.adstech.com.

Think You Know Sports?

EST your knowledge and have great fun at the same time with the latest Don’t Quote Me board game. This is the Sports Illustrated Edition, packed with a thousand questions covering dozens of topics complete with stats and facts.

Okay, let’s start. Which of these NCAA football teams are in the Pac 10 conference: UCLA, Stanford, Arizona State, UNLV?

One more. Name these martial arts by their country of origin and the meaning of their name: 1) Japanese, "open hand." 2) Korean, "way of the hand and foot." 3) Chinese, "achievement through effort."

1) Karate. 2) Tae Kwon Do. 3) Kung Fu.

Did we whet your appetite? There are a thousand more interesting questions and quotes, facts and figures. This is a wonderful game to entertain and educate and have fun at the same time. Designed for ages 14 and up. Available in April for $24.99. More information at www.dontquoteme.com.

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