Photos of Contla, 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.
Photographs of Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country ClubPhoto Courtesy of Bay Hill Country Club
Bay Hill and Arnold Palmer have inextricably become linked together. Today, although Bay Hill is the home of the... Airtran Student Standby Back for '09 Airtran's student standby program, Airtran U, is back from its annual holiday break and once again giving 18-22 year old students a break with $69-$99 standby fares through 12/17/2010. Amazingly,... Vieques: Undiscovered and undeveloped Relax on virginal white beaches once the property of the U.S. Navy, and stay at a stylish boutique hotel--no megaresorts here.
Surviving an Avalanche Parts of the Rocky Mountains have received almost 200 inches of snow already this year. Resorts in Sierra Nevada are measuring snowfall in feet, even through it's only the... |
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