Travel articles Book Review: DK Eyewitness Travel Guides
You won't find too many travel books (if any) that surpass DK Eyewitness Travel Guides for detail and illustration quality. But do they actually benefit a budget traveler or do... Room at the Inn: Finding hotel deals in 2009
It's an understatement to say that location is everything. The economic crisis is not affecting all markets equally, so just how great a bargain you find will depend largely on where you look.
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.
US Airways Flight Crashes in Hudson River
US Airways flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson river this afternoon, and geese are reportedly to blame in this developing story. Officials are reporting that everyone is off of the... When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Golfing Special Package
Highlands Reserve Golf ClubPhoto Courtesy of Highlands Reserve Golf Club
GolfPac Travel has put together this special package to Orlando where you'll stay four nights in one of Orlando’s favorite hotels,...
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