Travel articles
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... Bathroom Amenities
Picture of the amenities in the bathroom of Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. 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.
Exterior of an Igloo
Spend the night in one of these igloo hotels, made entirely of snow and ice. Isla Mujeres - Pictures of Isla Mujeres, Mexico - Isla Mujeres Photos
Pictures
from Isla Mujeres, Mexico: the Interactive Aquarium and Bluewater Marine.
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