Travel articles
Seattle on a Budget
Seattle is a bustling city that is home to some of the world's best-known companies. But some of the greatest reasons to visit Seattle are many miles from the city... Old Faithful Geyser: Photos of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida
Old Faithful Geyser: Pictures of rooms, lobby, lounge and restaurant areas of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida Beat the Bidding System
Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Air Fare Sale to South America
Remember our 2007 Dream Trip Contest winner, Gene Pembroke? At this time last year Gene was criss-crossing South America on LAN Airlines and blogging about it here. Gene shot this photo in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia....
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.
| |