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Airport TSA…security, or control?
Published on 17 Feb, 2010 at 16:10 in Travel | Viewed 152 views times | No Comments
The intrusions on our privacy when we attempt to board an airplane are a good example of the way that the government arranges circumstances that enable them to take away our Constitutional rights with little to no resistance. They are able to achieve this by convincing us, through the corporate controlled media, that we should
Weekend road trips
Published on 17 Feb, 2010 at 15:58 in Travel | Viewed 55 views times | No Comments
When you work hard for a living throughout the week like most of us, you tend to put some hand-to-mouth chores on the back burner and plan to take care of them over the weekend. This is natural, and it is a fact of life that we all have to deal with. However, everyone needs
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo getting ready for test flights ahead of space tourism
Published on 8 Dec, 2009 at 15:54 in Travel | Viewed 127 views times | No Comments
Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital space plane, the SpaceShipTwo, is preparing for test flights – and Richard Branson’s company hopes it will be taking tourists into space by 2012. For a mere $200,000, wealthy funseekers will be able to enjoy a few minutes’ weightlessness, staring out at the curve of the Earth from under a black sky.
Raise a glass to ‘beer country’
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 21:17 in Travel | Viewed 127 views times | No Comments
(CNN) — When it comes to taking spirited vacations, wandering a vineyard falls flat in the face of handcrafted brew. With more than 1,500 breweries across the United States, beer is not just a drink — it’s a destination. “What’s happened is that the old world has influenced the new world; the U.S. is now
Get locals’ lei of the land in Oahu, Hawaii
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 21:15 in Travel | Viewed 113 views times | No Comments
CNN) — With Hawaii’s impossibly perfect temperatures and enviable scenery, it’s easy to forget that there’s life off the beach. But with Hawaii celebrating its 50th anniversary as a state, it’s definitely time to look past Oahu’s Waikiki Beach and experience the most populous island’s abundance of local flavor. Hang like a local The best
Boating adventures in Alaska’s Glacier Bay
(Tribune Media Services) — Try maneuvering a kayak through icebergs — big ones, small ones, ones that look like alligators and flat-topped bergs that could spell trouble because they are mostly underwater. Just 250 years ago, this area was all glacier and no bay. Today, hundreds of thousands of tourists cruise Glacier Bay National Park
Freewheeling Through Holland
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:49 in Travel | Viewed 223 views times | No Comments
Most people talk about Holland, but in fact this is not the official name. The official name is The Netherlands. The term Holland comes from the province North Holland and South Holland. Amsterdam, Holland’s capital and one of the most famous and popular destinations in The Netherlands, is a city of canals and friendly people
Canadian circus guru makes journey into space
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:40 in Travel | Viewed 150 views times | No Comments
Canadian billionaire and circus tycoon Guy Laliberte on Wednesday blasted off in a Russian spaceship to become the world’s seventh space tourist. The 50-year-old former fire-breather and founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil is accompanied by two other astronauts. The three-man crew is due to dock with the International Space Station sometime today, October
Colo.’s Loveland Ski Area first to open for season
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 18:50 in Travel | Viewed 108 views times | No Comments
Loveland Ski Area is announcing its earliest opening day in 40 years. The ski area about 50 miles west of Denver will open for the season at 9 a.m. Wednesday, making it the first ski area in Colorado to open its slopes and likely the first in North America. Troy Hawks of the trade group
Spooky lighthouses, from Oregon to Florida
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 18:48 in Travel | Viewed 121 views times | No Comments
No such thing as ghosts, right? But a lonely lighthouse can look a little spooky on a foggy coastline above the pounding waves. The October issue of Coastal Living magazine describes six lighthouses with haunted legends. They are: _Heceta Head Lighthouse in Yachats, Ore., now a bed-and-breakfast that claims a ghost known as the Grey
