Photos of Kuzino, Russia
Travel articles 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.
Picture Riding the US Rails If you had to carry back liquids and gels in any appreciable volume after the holidays, you might have decided packing for complicated airport rules was a major drag.... Grand Xcaret Occidental The Grand Xcaret Occidental is a luxury all-inclusive beach resort on the Mexican Caribbean is adjacent to dramatic Xcaret Park. What You MUST Know Before Scooping Up a Cruise "Deal" My kids in New York Harbor last March, on the deck of a cruise ship bound for the Bahamas. At this moment of our economic downturn, when cruise lines are promoting outrageous discounts in order to fill their ships at...
What's in Your Back Yard? Yesterday I took some visiting friends to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We spent a very pleasant hour and a half walking around this historic campus... |
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