Travel articles
Tinkerbell - Tinkerbell Pictures
Tinkerbell spreading pixie dust at the Disneyland Hotel. Post-Holiday Travel Planning
Whatever your seasonal celebration was, it's just about over and if you're in the US and headed back to school or finished with family time, you'll be braving the crazy... Swimming Pool at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the 11-acre beach and swimming pool area at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 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.
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...
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