Travel articles
Swimming Pool at Flamingo Las Vegas
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at Flamingo Las Vegas. Dreaming o' the Green
No, it's not a winning lottery ticket, nor is it the putting green - although if you drive a little farther north from this spot, you'll come to a golf... Swimming Pool at the Bellagio Las Vegas
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 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.
Scuba Diving in Aruba
Pictures of scuba diving in Aruba.
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