Travel articles
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.
First Family to Stay in Cinderella's Castle Suite
Picture of the Fouch Family of DeWitt, Michigan, the first family to be selected to spend the night in Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Caitlin, Foot: Bedbug Bites
Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. Disney World Resort Photos: Pictures from Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
Pictures of Walt Disney World's All-Star Movies Resort: 101 Dalmations outside guest rooms. 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.
| |