Does booking your travels online make you a little nervous?

And then when we make mistakes, there's usually no way of undoing the mistakes because the purchase is non-refundable.

Coming up on today's Travel with Rick Steeves, consumer advocate Christopher Elliott shares

tips on how we can all be smarter travelers. Patricia Schultz reveals why she wrote a follow-up to

her popular thousand places to see before you die that only covers sites

in the United States and Canada.

There is no other continent like North America I think that offers so very much and so many varied things from natural beauty to man-made beauty.

And if you want the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, there's one thing you should never run out

of.

I have a family of three and I need about five liters of olive oil

per month. Learn how to eat like the Greeks at home and dining out with friends.

So you order a variety and you order it to share, it goes in the middle of the table.

It's all in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

Patricia Schultz gets us ready to celebrate Canada's Cesskla Centennial, it's 150 years old,

and plan a road trip across the United States.

And Christopher Elliot helps us overcome common pitfalls he encounters as a consumer travel advocate so that we can all be smarter travelers.

That's coming up in just a bit on today's travel with Rick Steves.

If you've resolved to improve what you eat, you've probably heard a lot about the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet.

Travelers to Greece rave about how good the food is and how healthy it is.

Here to help unlock the magic of authentic Greek

food are Greek tour guides, Anastasia Gaetano, I wanta Papacosta, and David

Wellit who also contributes to the latest Rick Steve's Greece guidebook.

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