Travel articles Disney's Saratoga Springs
The "World's" newest Home Away from Home resort, Disney's Saratoga Springs, sprung from the ashes of the former Villas at Disney Institute. Disney's Saratoga Springs offers a range of accomodations from standard guest rooms (some with kitchenettes) to residential-style, three-bedroom, two-story villas that sleep up to twelve people. The theming of Disney's Saratoga Springs is upstate New York at the turn of the century, and there are charming details every where you look. "In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching
Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
Post-Holiday Travel Planning
Whatever your seasonal celebration was, it's just about over and if you're in the US and headed back to school or finished with family time, you'll be braving the crazy... More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design
Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
Winter Comfort Food: Regional specialties
Every region in America has its own comfort-food specialties, from the stalwart hot puddings of New England to the creamy chowders of the Pacific Northwest.
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