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Ed Boitano
My Own Private Seattle

space needle I headed south when the rest of the world seemed to go north. Seattle in the late '80s topped many lists as the most livable city in the US, and transplants poured into the city to experience this new caffeine-fueled mix of urban creativity and multi-cultural sophistication in a setting of stunning natural beauty.

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The Great Escape of B17 Pilot Lt. Wes Coss in World War 2

It's early morning and there's a slight edge to the air as Lieutenant Wes Coss and his 9 crew members walk towards Stardust, their B-17 bomber. During WW2 so many British and American bombers were shot down before they'd even flown a few missions, meant that Stardust was a real veteran with an incredible 84 missions over enemy territory to her credit.

Eric
Olympia, Washington: “Far From the Madding Crowd”

It’s Small Town America, a little place with a big heart – and a pretentious name, Olympia, a title surely reserved by the Gods. The name is the only affection in this part of the Puget Sound.

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Value at Sea: Three Vessels That Fill the Bill

Ok, let's face it. We're still in a recession. People are working longer and harder and often times for not as much money. People are forgoing daily trips to Starbucks and extravagant meals out. BUT what we are not willing to give up is our vacations.

Tim
John Mayall... Breaking New Ground

Mayall & fan I've heard it said that 75 is the new 60. But if John Mayall has anything to say about it, it would probably be closer to 40. I don’t know what’s in this guy’s water, but I could use a quart or two in my coffee mug right now.

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The Blonde Kidnapper

With the economy as it is some people can get so desperate they are willing to try anything. Our blonde friend is no exception.


Recipe For a Perfect Vacation: Excellence Riviera Cancun

It's my third day at the Hotel Excellence Riviera Cancun and the Do Not Disturb card is in the slot again. I'm feeling lazy and content… mesmerized by the view. A thatch roof tops my balcony vista, framing the brilliant sky, pristine pools, ever-moving azure sea and powdered sugar beaches below.

Bev Cohn
Leave It to Beaver and Sputnik: Both Launched October 4, 1957

Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers, now and forever a beloved icon, found a permanent place in America's heart when at age seven he created the role of television's clean-cut lovable kid, Theodore "The Beav" Cleaver, in the sitcom Leave It To Beaver.

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Dette Pascual
Dateline: The Cherry Blossoms of Washington D.C.

cherry blossoms My husband and I flew from Arizona to Washington D.C. second week of April to catch up with the cherry blossom season. TV images of pink and white blossoms swaying in the trees around the Washington Mall was calling to us.

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Roger Fallihee
Love Is Better the Second Time Around

Lake Como As our wedding plans came together in the summer of 2007 my fiancée Dorothy and I began to focus on the honeymoon. Hawaii? New York? London? Paris? Rome? Both of us had travelled to these iconic places in the past, but in our conversations we quickly realized that neither one of us had ever had a truly romantic visit to any of these wonderful destinations.

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Gabriella
Shouldering Tradition

giglio It was on a sweltering day in July, 2000 on the occasion of "The Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel" in Brooklyn, New York (the childhood home of my mother and her family) when I noted the command, "Uaglió, a spal!" (pronounced "Wal-Yo, ah sbahl"--- "young men, on your shoulders!").

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Corinna Lothar
Innsbruck, Austria

Innsbruck The ride up the mountain on the cable car is worthy of a James Bond thriller. It takes your breath away, and you feel just a tiny jolt of adrenalin. The city of Innsbruck ("Bridge over the Inn") sparkles in the morning sun below as we rise through the pine forest. Above us the mountain soars a craggy 7,700 feet, crowned in dazzling snow.

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Terry
A Short Whistler Stop

Whistler Ski Resort Driving towards Whistler Resort gave me awesome views of British Columbia's Coast Mountains. Towering pines and fir trees populated the near horizons and a red-tailed hawk circled directly overhead.

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The Hill Towns of Tuscany and Umbria

I sometimes wonder what I was thinking about taking a wheelchair to the Italian hill towns of Tuscany and Umbria. It was a given that the ancient cobblestones would punish my wheels mercilessly and that the transportation would be a challenge to put it mildly, not to mention the currency exchange.

Jim
Japan: Bullet Trains, Monkey Shows and Whale Steaks

Nikko Temple gateLast month, I went to Japan for three things... Ok, let me back up a little bit already. The #1 reason I went to Japan was to visit my girlfriend, Yuki, and she will kill me if I don't say that, so there it is.

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Tahiti and Her Islands

Just their names (pronounce each vowel!) conjure up romantic images: Tahiti Nui, Moorea, Bora Bora, Huahine, Ra'iatea, Taha'a. Her people are gentle; the air, tiare-perfumed. Warm lagoons, majestic peaks, tropical fruits from the land and bounty from the sea all tantalize the senses. Paradise! As near as can be found on planet earth.

TRAVEL QUOTE

"Twenty years from now you will
be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."

--- Mark Twain




Travel Steals, Deals & Other Life Altering Experiences

Travel with Val

New York's own Val D'Elia leads us on a journey to today's BEST travel news & deals

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Where's Johnny Jet?

Follow the most traveled man on the globe

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Honeymoons & Romantic Travel with Susan Breslow Sardone

Susan Breslow knows all the places to start or rekindle that special relationship

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Off-Beat Travel Examiner

More funny and weird events from Tom Wuckovich of the Tampa Examiner

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Cruise deals from Joni

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Traveling Mamas

These travel writers (and moms) inspire women to get out there and explore the world

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A Roman Holiday Starting at $749

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Get Jazzed in Montreal From $78/Night

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Europe Sale Fares on American From $464 R/T

Flights to Europe are on sale from American for travel late summer through fall. Prices start at $464 round-trip, and destinations include Barcelona, Dublin, London, and Paris.

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Ireland Sale Fares on US Airways From $341 R/T

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Tuscany and A Taste of Venice From $699

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The Best Places to Stay in Canada

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Pyramids and Nile Cruise Starting at $1499

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2 For 1 Sale on Adriatic Five Country

Last year’s “4 Country Adriatic Cruise” just got even better in 2009 with the introduction of Albania - making it a FIVE country cruise! Now you can sample Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, AND Albania

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Dutch Windmill Video

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Norway in Motion - A Film From the North

Travel 1,500 kilometres through Norway in seven minutes in this video.

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72 Summer Gems From Switzerland

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Summer in Quebec City Video

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Exploration Voyage From Hurtigruten

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Low Airline Fares Are on the Horizon

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Blog Your Way to Antarctica Competition

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Video Demonstrates How to Use New Travel Documents at the Border

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Seashore

I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?
Am I not always here, thy summer home?
Is not my voice thy music, morn and eve?
My breath thy healthful climate in the heats,
My touch thy antidote, my bay thy bath?
Was ever building like my terraces?
Was ever couch magnificent as mine?
Lie on the warm rock-ledges, and there learn
A little hut suffices like a town.
I make your sculptured architecture vain,
Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home,
And carve the coastwise mountain into caves.
Lo! here is Rome and Nineveh and Thebes,
Karnak and Pyramid and Giant's Stairs
Half piled or prostrate; and my newest slab
Older than all thy race.

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.
Rich are the sea-gods:-who gives gifts but they?
They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:
They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise.
For every wave is wealth to Daedalus,
Wealth to the cunning artist who can work
This matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves!
A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?

I with my hammer pounding evermore
The rocky coast, smite Andes into dust,
Strewing my bed, and, in another age,
Rebuild a continent of better men.
Then I unbar the doors: my paths lead out
The exodus of nations: I disperse
Men to all shores that front the hoary main.

I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.
I know what spells are laid. Leave me to deal
With credulous and imaginative man;
For, though he scoop my water in his palm,
A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds.
Planting strange fruits and sunshine on the shore,
I make some coast alluring, some lone isle,

- by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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TRAVEL NIGHTMARES



Margaret and I snapped our gaze to the right. A sentry had jerked a machine gun up to his shoulder and was leaning forward to fire.

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