Travel articles First Family to Stay in Cinderella's Castle Suite
Picture of the Fouch Family of DeWitt, Michigan, the first family to be selected to spend the night in Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Surviving an Avalanche
Parts of the Rocky Mountains have received almost 200 inches of snow already this year. Resorts in Sierra Nevada are measuring snowfall in feet, even through it's only the... Tips for Backcountry Snow Riders During National Safety Awareness Week
It's National Safety Awareness Week, Jan. 17-23, and several of the ski resorts around the country are offering programs about safety awareness on the slopes and in the backcountry. On... Airfare Specials this Week
January is usually a decent month for cheap tickets on the airline, and this January follows that trend...
Kayak found a nice air / hotel package for those who yen for... 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.
|