Photos of Pronsk, Russia
Travel articles Another Secret to Snagging Low Fares Airfarewatchdog--whose low-fare alerts I get in my email in-box every day--had an interesting post on its Airfare WatchBlog yesterday about "Secret Airline Deals": When it comes to air fares, it says, "the genuine steals often just languish unpublished, unadvertised, and...
Horseback Riding on the Beach Horseback riding on the beach at Puntacana Resort & Club in the Dominican Republic. "In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
Madonna Inn - Caveman Room - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn Caveman Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. 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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The Cheers Travel World / Pronsk photos