Travel articles
Visit Obama's Oahu
The February 2009 issue Condé Nast Traveler pays its respects to the 44th president with a guide to Obama's Hawaiian haunts, a sampling of eateries, beaches, and hang-outs far off the familiar, lei-strewn path of the typical tourist.
Best Disney Hotels
What are the best Disney hotels? Here are our picks for the ten best Disney hotels of all. Obama Inauguration and Air Travel Around Washington DC
Tuesday, January 20 will not only mark an historical inauguration, but should see record numbers flying into the Washington DC area. No doubt, chaos is bound to be part of... Lindo
Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. 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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