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What You MUST Know Before Scooping Up a Cruise "Deal"
My kids in New York Harbor last March, on the deck of a cruise ship bound for the Bahamas. At this moment of our economic downturn, when cruise lines are promoting outrageous discounts in order to fill their ships at...

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.

When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by Weather
After the last blog entry about flight delays and cancellations due to the airline's own issue, I thought it might be good to look at the flip side - when...

Budget Baltimore for Senior Travelers
Baltimore, Maryland is one of my favorite cities. "Charm City" has been an important port, battle site, African American cultural center and hub of industry since its founding. ...

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.