Travel articles
Kyle, Arm: Bedbug Bites
Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. What You MUST Know Before Scooping Up a Cruise "Deal"
My kids in New York Harbor last March, on the deck of a cruise ship bound for the Bahamas. At this moment of our economic downturn, when cruise lines are promoting outrageous discounts in order to fill their ships at...
Travel Resolutions
I am sure most of you will be as happy as I am to see the back of 2008. It has been a horrific year for the world's economy,... Air Fare Deal to Australia
A few days ago I told you about a good Air New Zealand deal for folks who want to combine Australia and New Zealand in one trip and can travel in May. If your destination is Australia only, and you...
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.
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