How Prepared Are You for the Holiday Travel Season?
Are you driving to visit family or friends this holiday season? If so, how prepared do you feel? If you're like most drivers, you feel confident but according to a new survey from AARP Driver Safety,...
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This Is How to Experience New Orleans' Voodoo Culture
By Shawn Fink for Where In New Orleans, voodoo is more than just a tourism catchphrase and a marketing ploy. Have one day in the city? Here's how to get your own experience with our quick guide of New...
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Celebrating Boston's Architectural Legacy
Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest. A Frank Gehry-designed building at MIT. As a young architecture student immersed in my studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,...
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Thanksgiving, Island Style
I'm from the UK so Thanksgiving isn't a holiday I grew up celebrating, but with so many Americans coming to Mustique, it has become a tradition my family and I look forward to each year. A lot of...
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Cattle to Coddle Class; Tips from JetBlue, Turkish and Others
My friend enjoyed first class treatment on Thai I don't often sit outside of the economy cabin when I fly and neither do most of my friends. So when I or someone I know gets an upgraded experience it...
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Off-Season Mallorca: In Praise of Quiet Landscapes
Fog rests atop the blue-green mountains as the winding road comes into view of the rustic, sandstone village of Valldemossa. Colorful vegetation lines the steep and narrow streets, and the scent of...
View ArticleSecrets of a True Parisian: Part Two.
Primary school was just around the corner for me. In Paris, there is no school-bus system, each neighborhood has a little school, elementary school, and middle school -- it's only when you start going...
View ArticleFood Allergies Are a Growing Public Health Concern, Not a Joke
How do I explain to my nine year old son the humor in recent articles listing the 8th-worst reason flying is awful; those jerks/a**holes whose nut allergies have ruined peanuts on planes for everybody?...
View ArticleCyber Monday Airfare Deals
A quick round up: From Frontier, 20% off From Alaska, Philly and Detroit to Seattle for $197 RT, many others. There are deals from Sun Country to/from Minneapolis. From Virgin America, 20% off. From...
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LA's Mom & Pop Donut Shops Have Harsh Words For Dunkin' Donuts
Greater Los Angeles is home to the most diverse ecosystem of independent donut shops of anywhere in the country. Over 700 shops, many of them owned by Asian immigrants or their children, call SoCal...
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Bringing an End to Lion Hunting: The Maasai Olympics
This December the Maasai Olympics will take place in Kenya, encouraging Maasai warriors to prove their bravery and skill by competing for medals instead of through hunting lions. Image by Beverly...
View Article11 Questions to Ask When Selecting a NYC Walking Tour
Walking tours are a fun and interesting way to see the city. There are a wide array of options available. Asking the right questions will help narrow down the choices. 1-Do you want to see the whole...
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Ascension Island, A Burnt Volcanic Cinder in the Vast South Atlantic: Getting...
A 34-square-mile speck of 44 lava, ash and cinder cones lost in the middle of the South Atlantic, eight degrees south of the Equator, 900 miles from Africa and 1,400 miles from South America, it would...
View Article12 Instagram Accounts Out Of China You Should Be Following
China has a complicated relationship with Instagram, but that hasn't stopped amateur and professional photographers from beaming out a wide range of stunning sights in the massive country, from...
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8 Ways to Fight Jet Lag on Your Cruise
Gail Frederick / Flickr You've spent months comparing itineraries, cabin types and shore excursions, and now, you're ready for the international cruise of a lifetime. But if you're cruising abroad,...
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Tokyo Tripping
Jet-lagging my way through nights of little sleep and subdued hotel lighting feels like an upgraded Twilight Zone. Elegant chocolate brown and dusky grey walls leave me tapping them for the elevators...
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Extreme Ice Survey: First Southern Hemisphere Time-lapse Revisit
Extreme Ice Survey, the team featured in the Emmy award-winning film Chasing Ice, is aboard our ship, the National Geographic Explorer, in Antarctica. They're installing time-lapse cameras that will...
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We Looked At Airlines and Pet Incidents, And What We Found Surprised Everyone
Image by Bastien Wilmotte on Flickr With pet travel incidents being in the news, and the holidays coming up, we here at The BarkPost wanted to know the real story behind pets traveling on airlines. So...
View ArticleSurreal Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist
Our imaginations take us to grand and colorful places that we can not conceive as a reality. But what if those colors actually existed right here on Earth? Click Here to see the Complete List of...
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Budget Travel: 6 Offbeat (and Low-Cost) Accommodation Options
Don't have a big travel budget? No worries. If you've been bitten by the travel bug, there's a way to scratch that itch. And it needn't cost a bundle to do it. By thinking outside the box when it comes...
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