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Category Archives: Travel News and Tips
How to Clean a Pelican Drenched in Oil
The pelican is a large comical-looking water bird with its steam-shovel throat pouch used to scoop up water and small fish. But what’s been happening to the Flintstoneque bird due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is no laughing … Continue reading
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Fitness Apps– Working Out by the Numbers
Remember those long-gone days when you kept track of workouts in cheap spiral notebooks? Your training diary was probably dog-eared, sported bike chain grease and spilled Gatorade. With the digital age, the world of number-crunching is now conveniently at your … Continue reading
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Bird is the (Digital) Word
Obsessed birders can now leave their well-thumbed ornithology guidebooks at home. Several birding apps take the guesswork out of species hunting. According to fledgling birder Bob Tedeschi, who is also a Connecticut-based science and technology reporter for the New York … Continue reading
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Saving Leatherback Turtles in Trinidad
Despite its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad’s Matura Beach used to be known as a bloody graveyard for leatherback turtles. The huge, gentle sea creatures were hunted for their meat and fins, and also for their eggs, which … Continue reading
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Cheap, Great Travel Gadgets
You spend buckets of cash flying somewhere distant like Patagonia or the Australian Outback, and yet you like to think of yourself as budget-minded when it comes to travel accessories. A recent piece in the “Frugal Traveler,” a New York … Continue reading
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Overcrowding in our National Parks?
Do we really want more visitors to our national parks? New York Times op-ed columnist Tmothy Egan thinks yes. “Last year, there were 274 million visits to all areas run by the National Park Service,” he wrote in a recent … Continue reading
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Taking Great Travel Photos
Digital photography has transformed the vacation experience. We have evolved from the Kodak Instamatic to the Polaroid to the Canon or Nikon to the ubiquitous digital camera. According to the Photo Marketing Association, digital shooters in the United States will … Continue reading
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Aches and Pains on the Trail?
You’re getting ready for your first long hike of the summer, or you just came back from a weekend backpacking trip, and your aching legs feel like two by fours. So what are some great ways to deal with soreness … Continue reading
Bandits Beware: Travel Safety Tips in Rough Countries
New York Times op-ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof spends alot of time in war zones. He’s filed must-read dispatches from Sudan and Uganda, where he’s written about crime, poverty, war, and genocide. In a May 31, 2009 column, he takes a … Continue reading
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Sports Geezer is a Fount of Youthful Info
With its cheeky name, SportsGeezer is anything but. We love this increasingly popular site not because we’re busy cashing Social Security checks or renewing our AARP membership. Billed as the site for “health, fitness, and lifestyle tips for men and … Continue reading
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Hanging Out to Dry
Hello RailRiders. I was not familiar with these great pants until just recently. I think a friend actually gave me this pair when my wife and I moved to Belize this year. I have a number of different lightweight travel … Continue reading
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Budget-Minded in the Caribbean?
Maybe it’s a good time to fly off somewhere that’s far away from the gloom and doom news of the current economic crisis, and we can’t think of a better getaway than the Caribbean, so long as you know where … Continue reading
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