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Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the MGM Grand Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Family Adventure: Harry Potter Fan Trips
Don your robes and get aboard the Hogwarts Express: two Harry Potter Fan Trips (nine days, or five days) are timed to coincide with the release of the "Harry Potter... An Excellently Inspirational Blog
We've been feeling honestly inspired by Ohonestly Abroad, a great blog from Laura, a 20-year-old student at Ohio University who's leaving shortly for a semester abroad at Macquarie University in... 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... 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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