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.
Miami: Stop off after the Super Bowl
Don't just see the game and leave. Enjoy all that Miami has to offer--it's an increasingly sophisticated showplace of art and design.
Pop Century
Disney's newest value hotel, the Pop Century Resort, plays around with pop culture icons from every decade of the 20th century. The resort is decorated with giant versions of memorable items like the Rubix Cube and a Mickey telephone. L'Auberge du Lac Pictures
Pictures from our stay in a Deluxe Queen room overlooking the lazy river at L'Auberge du Lac Hotel Casino in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Summer Airfare Sales to Europe Have Begun
Quite a few of you have been asking how to get lower airfares for travel to Europe this summer. The latest query comes from reader Leslie, who needs four tickets to Rome in late June: "The fares I've found are...
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