Travel articles
Cinderella
Picture of Cinderella meeting the first little girl to spend the night in her castle in Walt Disney World. What's in Your Back Yard?
Yesterday I took some visiting friends to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We spent a very pleasant hour and a half walking around this historic campus... 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.
Tipping Etiquette
Tipping guide explains who in a hotel expects a tip, and exactly how much you should tip them. Entrance
Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
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