Travel articles
Eating Well on the Road
Nearly a month after making a resolution to eat healthier, I'm finding myself struggling to follow through. I could blame my hectic work schedule and business travels, but it's really... Mystery Photo Revealed - Hoover Dam
Did you guess correctly? Hoover Dam, which was built to dam the Colorado River and create Lake Mead, straddles the Arizona-Nevada state line. Two of the four intake... Europe's New Deal: Low on Crowds and Cost
Everything you would expect, plus a whole lot more for a whole lot less: a Mediterranean port, a Spanish cultural powerhouse, an English water-sports mecca, and a gem of a Portuguese city.
Take Your Carrier to Court Day
As President Bush winds up his last week in office, here's something to ponder, especially if you happen to be sitting on a plane held on the tarmac. One of his administration's last acts in the transportation field was to approve a policy that could open the way for consumers to sue airlines in state courts for any action that might violate their "contract of carriage," that pact that, unbeknownst to most travelers, goes into effect each time an airline sells you a ticket.
Nose to Nose with Velázquez on Google Earth
A new layer on Google Earth offers highly detailed views of 14 paintings from the museum including Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 in Madrid, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. And by highly detailed, we mean images that contain as many as 14 million pixels.
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