Photos of Fujinomiya, Japan
Travel articles Biofuel - the First Airline Trend of 2009 The green-ing of air travel is becoming a more permanent idea with the airlines. There are carbon offsets, some airlines have various recycling projects, you may be on a flight... 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.
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,... C.M., Wrist: Bedbug Bites C.C.'s Wrist: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. Kayaks and Catamarans Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. |
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