Travel articles Don't Miss Out on Today's Excellent Opportunities to Earn Extra Hotel Points
We're being carpet-bombed these days with hotel deals that yield bonus frequent-guest points, and all I can say is I hope you're taking advantage of them. The hotel industry has been improving these programs of late, eliminating blackout dates and showering its most loyal members with perks.
Cinderella
Picture of Cinderella meeting the first little girl to spend the night in her castle in Walt Disney World. Cinderella's Bedroom
Picture of Cinderella's bedroom in her castle in Disney World, where a lucky family gets to stay every night. Learn to XC or Snowshoe Free This Saturday
If there's snow covering the ground at a winter resort near you, odds are excellent you can learn to cross country ski or snowshoe free next Saturday. Some of... 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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