Miami Herald: Travel
- B Resort & Spa: The place to ‘B’ at Downtown Disney
Thursday - 09/18/2014 - 12:00 AMA stay at the new B Resort near Downtown Disney feels more like a South Beach vacation than a visit to amusement park central.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dubai, most populous city in United Arab Emirates, speeds into the future
Thursday - 09/18/2014 - 12:00 AMThink Vegas without the sin, Disney without the mouse. Dubai, one of the seven Emirates (like a state) of the United Arab Emirates, is just a bit bigger than reality.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A flyover tour of an Icelandic volcano in action
Tuesday - 09/16/2014 - 07:02 PMThere is something so majestic yet simultaneously frightful in a volcanic eruption that someone viewing it just cannot look away. In Iceland now, people are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to experience this bucket-list thrill.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - One summer, two San Clementes: a travelogue
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMStrolling San Clemente's scenic beach trail, more than 5,000 miles from Southern California, I marveled at the aquamarine waters of the Bay of Biscay and the historic Phare des Baleines lighthouse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to do along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMPicture the Blue Ridge Parkway as a crooked spine running through the Appalachian Mountains. Government stewardship of public lands is splashed across the map in confusing variety - a national park at either end, national forests, historic sites, monuments and state parks along its 469 miles.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hudson Valley: small towns, artists, farmers, fall color
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMWending our way to the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, we cross a creek, meander down a country road, then come to a farm with red barns, split-rail fences and flocks of sheep grazing in the green pastures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - One-track mind in West Texas
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMI feel like a time traveler, stretched out in a sleeper car on a train slicing across the West Texas scrubland.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tips on tipping in Europe
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 12:00 AMHere’s a tip: Don’t stress over tipping.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Celebrating Halloween at the theme parks
Friday - 09/12/2014 - 02:26 PMWith Halloween about six weeks away, Florida’s theme parks are ready to launch their celebrations — and one already has.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exhibit looks at mystique of ‘killer heels’
Thursday - 09/11/2014 - 05:19 PM“Killer Heels” have come to Brooklyn.
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- Dubai, most populous city in United Arab Emirates, speeds into the future
Thursday - 09/18/2014 - 12:00 AMThink Vegas without the sin, Disney without the mouse. Dubai, one of the seven Emirates (like a state) of the United Arab Emirates, is just a bit bigger than reality.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rio organizers announce basics on tickets
Tuesday - 09/16/2014 - 08:17 PMOrganizers have announced the basic outline of ticket prices for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida: 4th annual Monarch Festival set for Sept. 27-28 in Earleton
Tuesday - 09/16/2014 - 12:00 AMStretch your wings
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Answering the call of Norway's beauty
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMMost of us spend nearly the whole day with some sort of technology - in front of a computer, an app on our cell phones, watching the TV to unwind - and that might be why our minds and bodies crave time outdoors so badly that we find ourselves edgy, depressed, agitated.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Key moments at the missions
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Zihuatanejo, Thursdays are pozole days
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMThe air is hot and sultry, weighted with smoke and sea salt and the heady balm of pig fat. It's not exactly soup weather. It's the rainy season, July, when I'm in Zihuatanejo, which doesn't translate to any actual rain but rather a steamy, lazy heaviness that's boxed in by an unrelenting sun, with the Pacific Ocean in front and the Sierra Madre del Sur behind.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lighthouse Larry’s crazy idea: Open-water, 8-mile swim to benefit Fla. Keys lighthouses
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 12:38 PMKeys native Larry Herlth watched historic icons like Alligator Lighthouse being left to deteriorate, replaced by GPS and other technology. He decided to do something about it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I was charged an extra $134 for my car because I was an hour late
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 12:00 AMQ: I have a complaint about my recent car rental experience at Indianapolis International Airport. I’ve called Hertz and Hotwire, the online travel agency I booked this through, and didn’t get answers that make sense.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Utah ski resort sold amid long legal battle
Thursday - 09/11/2014 - 09:05 PMOne of Utah’s largest ski areas was sold to Vail Resorts Inc. Thursday, resolving a legal battle between two ski titans and paving the way for the creation of what could be the country’s largest resort.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New perspective: London with a teen
Friday - 09/12/2014 - 12:00 AMIt’s dripping buckets, though that is hardly surprising. It’s London, after all, where it rains on average 10 days of every month.
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- How to navigate airline alliances so they don’t hinder your trip
Wednesday - 09/17/2014 - 08:23 PMWhile the average traveler has only a vague awareness that their flying experience is changing, airlines are quickly aligning themselves into worldwide teams at a faster pace than any time since airline alliances were invented in 1997.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A hard-to-find brew and the ultimate beer run
Tuesday - 09/16/2014 - 07:20 PMLet’s not call this a “beer run.” That has such a… Friday night frat boy connotation. Let’s instead call this a “beer journey.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - One summer, two San Clementes: a travelogue
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 07:25 PMStrolling San Clemente's scenic beach trail, more than 5,000 miles from Southern California, I marveled at the aquamarine waters of the Bay of Biscay and the historic Phare des Baleines lighthouse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Patterson House with bullet holes is attraction at West Virginia's Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMSUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. - Carnifex Ferry is not Gettysburg. It's not Antietam. It's not Shiloh.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Discovering more about California's missions
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMAttention, California fourth-graders. If you want to make a model of a handsome, historic California building that was built for a simple purpose and produced entirely positive results, consider a lighthouse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Beauty awaits the adventurous at Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Monday - 09/15/2014 - 08:09 AMLying on the ground in Coyote Gulch, the night sky framed by openings in a natural arch and a curved canyon wall, I peer at the cosmos as through a Mardi Gras mask.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - England: Artist Benedict Radcliffe’s ‘London Taxi’ unveiled at Heathrow
Sunday - 09/14/2014 - 12:00 AMSIMPLY Red
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Epcot’s Maelstrom will close, be replaced by ‘Frozen’ ride
Friday - 09/12/2014 - 04:29 PMNo date has been announced for the debut of the new attraction in the Disney park’s Norway Pavilion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reunion Island: Volcano Museum reopens with new displays
Friday - 09/12/2014 - 12:00 AMInto the volcano
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Travel briefs
Friday - 09/12/2014 - 12:00 AMJust months after finishing construction of its Cabana Bay Beach Resort, Universal Orlando announced Tuesday it will build a fifth hotel, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort, to open in the summer of 2016.
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