Travel articles
The Check-In Checklist: Where to stay before you die
When you're tired, off-kilter in a new city, or just need to get your head right, a great hotel will help you rediscover your balance.
After the Crash: A Tale of Two Airlines
As divers prepare to raise the airplane engine of US Airways flight 1549 from the depths of the frozen Hudson River, the warm and fuzzy--if not saccharine--coverage of the "miracle" on the Hudson continues apace.
Kyle, Shoulder: Bedbug Bites
Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. Do you want to stay in one of the hotels inside Walt Disney World that are on the monorail line?
Take the Walt Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotels inside Walt Disney World for your next vacation. 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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