Photos of Calderitas, Mexico
Travel articles 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.
Another Secret to Snagging Low Fares Airfarewatchdog--whose low-fare alerts I get in my email in-box every day--had an interesting post on its Airfare WatchBlog yesterday about "Secret Airline Deals": When it comes to air fares, it says, "the genuine steals often just languish unpublished, unadvertised, and...
Ryanair: European Air Sale Periodically, Ryanair pops up with pennies-per-seat sales, and they've got one on now for even less than pence: try free. This particular sale from the budget European air travel king... Get a Passport Now for Spring Break Passport applications may take from six weeks to three months to process normally (unle$$ expedited), and you now have to have a passport to return to the US by air... Madonna Inn - Irish Hills - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn Irish Hills: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. |
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