Travel articles Falling Overboard - Are You at Risk?
Recent news reports, including CNN's coverage of a cruise ship worker who accidentally fell from the Carnival Sensation, have once again brought cruise ship safety into the limelight.
Should you worry... 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.
Hard Rock Hotel
This hotel within the Universal complex offers much for families, including kid suites and a sandy bottom pool with a waterslide. Do you need an outdoor playground?
Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotel for your next trip. This question is: Do you need an outdoor playground for the kids? Bed Bug on Human Finger
Picture of a bed bug on a human finger.
|