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Learning About Grapes and History in the Champagne Region Near Paris
NEAR REIMS, FRANCE -- We're sitting in a family dining room in a tiny French village eating chicken cooked in champagne and sipping champagne. Why all the champagne? For one thing, the owners of the...
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The Good-Karma Guide to Holiday Travel
Source: Bill Alldrege. Some rights reserved. The best test of whether your meditation class is paying off is seeing how you behave on no sleep and when you're late for a flight after the mustachioed,...
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Life on Ice: A Snapshot into Our First Month in Antarctica
Here's a short compilation of video clips giving an insight into our time in Antarctica so far. They've been sent back from our tent using Intel's latest 4th Generation technology and a customized...
View ArticleFirst Class for the First Time -- Yippee!
My sister and I impulsively decided to upgrade to first class on a recent trip to Chicago, when we logged on to print out our boarding passes and learned it would cost just $75 extra. "Let's go for...
View ArticleDubai To Host 2020 World Expo
PARIS (AP) — Fireworks erupted in Dubai after the tiny Gulf emirate won the right to host the 2020 World Expo, becoming the first Middle Eastern city to organize the event in its more than 150-year...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Absurd Flight Delays To Ever Happen
Think your Thanksgiving plane delay is funny? Wait till you hear these crazy excuses for tardy takeoff. Bill Clinton's scalp In 1993, four LAX runways shut down when then-president Bill Clinton...
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Airbus Map Shows All The Routes Possible On The Superjumbo Jet
Want to know everywhere you can travel on Airbus' A380 superjumbo jet? The company has created a friendly, colorful map of all the routes fliers can take. The jet, after all, is the largest in the...
View ArticleStocking Stuffer Ideas For Men And Women Who Love Travel (PHOTOS)
Santa Claus may be coming to town (and fairly shortly, too), but don't expect all the Christmas preparations on your to-do lists to magically make their way into the hands of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas....
View ArticleThe Science Of Sand Goes Way Beyond The Beach In New MinuteEarth VIDEO
All sand looks pretty much the same, but why? It's a question few of us think about, but the answer is fascinating. It's all explained in a new video from MinuteEarth, the series that takes bits of...
View ArticleMetra Pet Ban Challenged By Online Petition Protesting Rail System's Animal...
Though pets are currently banned altogether from Metra rail lines, an online petition is picking up steam in its effort to change that. Aurora, Ill. resident Rena Church earlier this year started a...
View ArticleIsland Air, Buyer Beware!
It can take as long to travel to Molokai from Honolulu as it does to reach Hawaii from Los Angeles — if, that is, you are flying Island Air. That was the case on Oct. 24, when flight No. 208 was...
View ArticleAn Adoption Awareness Month Request: Check Your Prejudices
That awkward moment when people think you and your dad are married. And that's not just rhetorical Internet speak. My parents and I just got back from a cruise to the Bahamas and two people on separate...
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Ancient Koa Forest For Sale On Hawaii's Big Island
If you've ever wanted to own your very own tropical forest, now is your chance. For only -- wait for it -- $22 million, you can purchase 3,127 acres of beautiful koa cloud forest on Hawaii's Big...
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10 Things to Do in Hotels Besides Sleep
I stayed in lots of hotels and motels as a child -- granted, cheap family-vacation ones with no breakfast and flashing neon signs, but nonetheless I always dreamed of simply staying there. Of never...
View ArticleBlack Friday Travel Deals
Skip the long, cold lines of big box stores this Black Friday: savvy shoppers can give the gift of travel, thanks to extremely competitive deals in the market, with savings up to 75%. Below is the list...
View ArticleAwesomely Canadian Lego Models Will Make Your Day (PHOTOS)
When Jeff Friesen isn't photographing Canada, he's building it brick by brick with his daughter. It's part of his "Lego Great White North" gallery, in which the father-daughter duo mix travel,...
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Eating Vegetarian in China
Our brains do a dizzy dance while our bellies gnaw at us like rats tearing through a carcass. Visions of delicious vegan foods from back home swirl before our eyes. We've spent all day on the bus, with...
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5 Hotels To Literally Be Surrounded By Nature
Sometimes you just feel the desire to be immersed in the natural world. If camping isn't your cup of tea, these gorgeous hotels will let you experience both luxury and the zen wonder of being totally...
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Fake Venices In China, Korea Prove That Venice Is One Of Everyone's Favorite...
Venice, Italy is pure majesty-- the tiny waterfront town is an exquisite series of 118 small islands, all woven together with charming bridges and calming canals. It's no wonder everybody wants to copy...
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Jeff Friesen's '50 States Of Lego' Project Takes You Across America
If you think Legos are just a kid's toy, think again. In his project, "50 States of Lego," Jeff Friesen -- a photographer and toy enthusiast -- recreates the United States of America using the colorful...
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