Photos of Java, Georgia
Travel articles Take Me Home, Italian Roads I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.
Bed Bug on Human Finger Picture of a bed bug on a human finger. 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.
Copperfield's Books Takes the Place of Plaza Farms Market in Healdsburg One of my favorite little restaurants in Healdsburg, Calif., the epicenter of Sonoma County's sophisticated winetasting culture, is Bovolo Restaurant. The gelato's amazing, and I'm also pretty happy any time... Hotel Del Coronado One woman who died in the Hotel Del Coronado still waits for her husband to return. |
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