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.
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...
Denver - Continental Flight 1404
Saturday's accident involving Continental flight 1404 is not expected to impact air traffic today at Denver International Airport. According DIA spokesperson Elizabeth Mason, "delays are whatever the normal delays are,... Uptown/Garden District: New Orleans Hotels Map
Map of Hotels and Inns in the Uptown/Garden District Area of New Orleans 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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