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Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 09:38 AM • travelandleisure.com
Namibia’s wilderness—a land of volcanic mountains and epic dunes—is also the backdrop for a growing number of stylish hideaways.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 08:38 AM • msnbc.msn.com
CHICAGO - United Airlines is adding an extra $5 charge for travelers who pay their baggage fee at the airport instead of online.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 08:38 AM • travel.nytimes.com
AS one of the planet’s most diverse cities, Toronto is oddly clean and orderly. Sidewalks are spotless, trolleys run like clockwork, and the locals are polite almost to a fault.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 07:38 AM • jaunted.com
We understand that people sometimes need to rent expensive clothing for a night. You’re at an event with people that you want or need to impress so you enhance your plummage accordingly. Fine. We might bemoan our inegalitarian culture, where society’s velvet rope is lowered only to those who can turn heads, but whatever. People have wanted to look good for other people since the dawn of time.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 07:37 AM • lostgirlsworld.blogspot.com
When a host on an Iowa talk show called “I love Dubuque†said that “Iowa is more than corn,†I laughed out loud, mostly because we had just driven through a neighborhood where backyards met up with cornfields that stretched on for miles like oceans.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 06:38 AM • gonomad.com
The iPhone and iPod touch are quickly becoming essential travel tools.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 06:37 AM • vagabondish.com
Andenes del Machu Pichu, Peru
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 05:38 AM • travel.nytimes.com
BIG rivers. Wide open spaces. Long, looping casts. Such are the popular images of fly-fishing, as it’s practiced out West. Everyone knows “A River Runs Through It†was set in Montana; celebrities jostle for stream-side property around Jackson Hole in Wyoming; and John Gierach’s “Trout Bum,†regarded by many as a modern fly-fishermen’s manifesto, is set mostly in Colorado.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 05:38 AM • divinecaroline.com
Very few places on the planet conjure up an image by mere mention of the name. Beverly Hills = mansions and movie stars. San Francisco = the Golden Gate Bridge and cable cars. Paris = the Eiffel Tower. St Tropez?
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 04:38 AM • fodors.com
I’m by no means the final voice on travel, but I’ve been traveling (and enjoying it) since I was young. Over the years, I’ve learned several important lessons.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 04:38 AM • hotelchatter.com
Okay, New Yorkers. You know you want to get out of the city for Memorial Day. Surely, if the weather’s nice, the tourists are gonna be swarming every city block, Astoria Beer Garden is going to be packed and your normal daytime drinking spots are going to be tough to move around in. We know you probably don’t want to hear this, but just flee to Jersey already. At least for the weekend.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 03:38 AM • divinecaroline.com
When I think of Florence, images of beautiful, curvy women rush in: Venus rising from the sea in Botticelli’s painting. Infinite Madonnas. The giant breast-shaped Duomo. With all that female adoration as an inspiring base, I feel buoyed in Florence as I indulge in her pleasures: admiring the handsome men (including Michelangelo’s David), tasting wine, gelato, and bisteca.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 03:37 AM • gadling.com
It’s a bummer to get sick on a vacation. Anyone who has been holed up in a hotel with the chills or worse instead of out enjoying the trip that you paid for can vouch for that. Illness isn’t great for tourism either. Mexico tourism has hit the skids because of H1N1 virus, aka, swine flu. Folks in the Mexico tourism industry have begun to cook up ideas to entice tourists to head south. Here’s one.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 02:38 AM • hotelchatter.com
In these oh-so-shaky economic times, you’ve got to feel sorry for graduating college seniors. And when you consider the fates of art students — you know, those creative kids who have pretty much always looked forward to uncertain job prospects — things might seem particularly dire.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 02:37 AM • worldhum.com
When I heard about the Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival in Woodward, Okla., my mind went directly to funnel cakes, face painting, and maybe a parade with a Lesser Prairie Chicken Queen. Sign me up, I said! I love small-town fests.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 01:38 AM • jaunted.com
Although Walt Disney World seems like a never-ending sea of tourists, there is at least one awesome way to escape from all the strollers and crowds.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 01:38 AM • gofrance.about.com
The 2009 Cannes Festival opening film today is the much-anticipated Disney Pixar film, “Up,” directed by Pete Docter and featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer and John Ratzenberger.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM • usatoday.com
The cushy mattress with all-white trimmings that launched a hotel bedding revolution is turning 10.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM • jaunted.com
It may not be as gritty as Deptford, but the new Manta ride at SeaWorld is pretty sick. The ride soft-opened a few weeks ago and while it’s not yet had its official opening (that will happen on May 22nd), a few people who have taken the ride have already filmed the experience on YouTube.
Submitted by Jackie, Made Popular: May 14, 2009 at 11:38 PM • usatoday.com
Before the summer heat really hits, lace up your sneakers and do a little sightseeing while racing through town. Bart Yasso, chief running officer at Runner’s World, shares his list of great road races where runners can tour the city with Kelly DiNardo for USA TODAY.
