Travel articles Beat the Bidding System
Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Picture Riding the US Rails
If you had to carry back liquids and gels in any appreciable volume after the holidays, you might have decided packing for complicated airport rules was a major drag.... 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.
Hotel Maps: New Orleans French Quarter Map
New Orleans French Quarter map of hotels and landmarks. A Cookbook for the Google Generation
By Mollie Chen I've got shelf upon shelf of cookbooks at home - everything from Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking to Michel Richard's gorgeous Happy in the Kitchen - plus dozens more squirreled away in my...
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