Travel articles
Have You Seen This?
In his fascinating article "The 5 Million Frequent Flyer Mile Challenge", Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Non-Conformity writes "the true story of how [he] earned more than 300,000 frequent flier miles in the past five weeks, thanks to mileage...
Create Permanent Memories in Personalized Photo Albums
So you've returned from a trip and have dozens of digital memories, which you need to print out and insert in a photo album. There's an easier way to... Top Haunted Hotels
The most haunted hotels in the United States. This ranks the top ten most haunted hotels and haunted inns in the country, listed by the number of ghosts and ghostly activity reported by hotel guests and staff. Getting out of Town: Blue Hill at Stone Barns
A rainy afternoon on the farm By Mollie Chen On Friday, my editor Gully and I took a little field trip up the Hudson to Pontico Hills, New York, to Blue Hill at Stone Barns. There, we met up with...
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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