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Intrepid Travel Offers 'Roots of Obama' Tour Of Kenya
If taking a safari is in your travel plans, check out Intrepid Travel's 'Roots of Obama' tour of Kenya. The 8-day trip includes a visit to Barack Obama's... Disney's Deluxe Resorts
Disney's Deluxe resorts put you closest to the magic and add luxuries not found at the other resorts, but at the highest rates. Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Travel and Teenagers, a Great Combination
You may not know this, but we are serious fans of vertically-gifted actor Liam Neeson. But after his recent statements about travel, we're downright devoted. Case in point: "American parents are too over-protective. If kids traveled a little bit more and saw more of the world, there'd be a lot more tolerance of other cultures, nations, and countries.
More Tech Items for Travelers
Portable GPS devices seem to be getting better by the day, and TomTom's GO 740 Live is the latest addition to the increasingly competitive field. The most promising feature is the new Google search function, which means no longer depending on the Points of Interests stored in the TomTom database.
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