Photos of Calderitas, Mexico
Travel articles Which President Was the Best Traveled? It would be an exaggeration to say that a great president is by definition a well-traveled one--Abraham Lincoln never left the United States--yet for most, leaving Washington now and then was both edifying and expedient.
Take Me Home, Italian Roads I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.
Cruise Poll Results: Readers' Ratings Our readers rated more than 400 ships according to the highest seafaring standards to arrive at this select list of 90 top ships.
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.
Ryanair: European Air Sale Periodically, Ryanair pops up with pennies-per-seat sales, and they've got one on now for even less than pence: try free. This particular sale from the budget European air travel king... |
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