Travel articles
Jamaica: Beyond the Beach
I was updating material on Jamaica resorts this week, which reminded me of our own trip there a few years back, and how fascinating it was to learn a... Cinderella's Bedroom
Picture of Cinderella's bedroom in her castle in Disney World, where a lucky family gets to stay every night. Disney's Saratoga Springs
The "World's" newest Home Away from Home resort, Disney's Saratoga Springs, sprung from the ashes of the former Villas at Disney Institute. Disney's Saratoga Springs offers a range of accomodations from standard guest rooms (some with kitchenettes) to residential-style, three-bedroom, two-story villas that sleep up to twelve people. The theming of Disney's Saratoga Springs is upstate New York at the turn of the century, and there are charming details every where you look. 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.
Flights for Obama's Inauguration
Virgin America, Southwest Airlines, and AirTran Airways are not only low cost airlines, but are among the airlines to add more flights to and from the Washington DC area to...
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