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Zen Garden at Red Door Spa
Zen Garden at Red Door Spa at Hyatt Regency Bonaventure. Old Faithful Geyser: Photos of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida
Old Faithful Geyser: Pictures of rooms, lobby, lounge and restaurant areas of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by the Airline
Having worked for an airline for almost 15 years, I've seen a lot of the unavoidable reality of air travel - flights will delay or cancel. There are two types... Madonna Inn - Vouz - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Vouz: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. 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.
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