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If you find yourself in Boston’s impossibly preppy-but-undeniably picturesque Beacon Hill neighborhood, please, whatever you do, we beg of you, order and immediately devour an almond croissant from Cafe Vanille. All the pastries are as quaint as the shop’s surroundings but the buttery, flaky dessert is what you have to get.
Down the street there’s a […]

Allegiant Airlines is having a sale to/from Florida. The sale ends on May 10, and travel is through August 31. Fares from from $39 to $109 each way on nonstop flights. There is no round-trip purchase requirement.
In addition, as of this posting, Allegiant has several $19 one-way fares to Florida for a few dates in […]

We went to EPCOT yesterday for the 2008 Flower and Garden Festival.
It was nice, but, I must admit, a little disappointing. There just
wasn’t as much color as in past years. We went in June of 2006
and (although I didn’t take lots of pictures), I remember it being much
more elaborate. I really loved these in 2006 […]

Friedrich Nietzsche famously proclaimed “God is dead,” and nowhere does his statement feel truer than along the abandoned-factory-lined waterfront of Buffalo. But the city embraces its darkness in black humor films like “The Savages” and “Buffalo 66,” where neurotic, blue-collar intellectuals suffer the existential crises that Nietzsche invented.
So it makes sense that the epicenter of […]

How come high school kids have all the fun–and why didn’t this stuff exist back when we were still in school? We’re talking about National Geographic’s Student Expeditions, which send American teenagers from the ninth to twelfth grades out into the wild for three weeks at a time.
Of course, the hope is that they’ll learn […]

This new sale ends on May 1, and is for travel May 8 to 31, 2008, except May 22-23 and 26 (Memorial Day peak travel, figures).
It’s not system-wide, but many cities are included. Check it out.
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Near misses between planes on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport are nothing new. The airport has consistently ranked high on the FAA’s list of dangerous US airports for runway accidents but is EWR even trying to remedy the situation?
Described as runway incursions, these scary incidents happens when “an aircraft, vehicle, person or object […]

The Daily Mantra is dedicated to the journey of enlightenment, and hopes to encourage its readers to put aside preconceived notions in order to allow themselves to be open to all the lessons and opportunities the Universe presents. I’d therefore like to illustrate this idea with a tale of serial serendipities from a recent trip […]

Taking The Ghan right down through the center of Australia is a journey already reserved for those with a fair bit of time and cash, but it’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime train trips that are really worth doing. The Ghan’s just come up with an option that makes it even more likely you’ll only do […]

After a fatal shark attack on Friday, about 17 miles of Southern California beaches are reopening today. Lifeguards from Torrey Pines to Carlsbad tried to keep swimmers and surfers out of the water this weekend after what officials presume to be a great white killed 66-year-old David Martin in Fletcher Cove.
Though the beach closures led […]