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Brandi Chastain’s soccer jersey is there. So are Sasha Cohen’s figure skates from the Torino Games and Danica Patrick’s Indy helmet.
The Sports Museum of America, located just steps from the Statue of Liberty in lower Manhattan, opened its doors to the public early in May providing a truly sweet escape for sports fans.
The first comprehensive […]

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain has been stumping around America, and lately he’s been slamming Barack Obama for his position on Cuba. (You’ll remember that the Illinois senator wants to ease travel restrictions to the island.)
Hoping to set the record straight, Obama delivered a speech today to the Cuban American National Foundation:

Every four years, […]

Virgin Atlantic has published some really unusual 1-day advance purchase fares for travel to London from most of its US gateways. You must leave tomorrow, Sunday May 25, and return in June. If you were shopping around for a last minute fare to anywhere in Europe (you can connect from London on a cheap fare), […]

There’s nothing more that I enjoy than a “Road Trip.” Each summer when
I was younger, my family would always head out in July for one week
somewhere. We live in New England, and my fondest memories included
visiting the usual tourist sites ~ Washington, D.C.; Atlantic City
(before it became a casino haven); Florida; Niagra Falls; Lake George,
NY; […]

Sure, this weekend is the unofficial start of summer. More importantly, though, it’s the mega-official start of outdoor beer-drinking season. We believe it was Washington Irving who so succinctly summed it up, saying, “They who drink beer will think beer.”
We’ve most definitely got cold beer on the brain but before we crack our first tall […]

The official kick off to summer has begun. Memorial Day is upon us and for the next three months, we will all be in summer-mode. This means leaving work a bit early on Fridays, taking an occasional long weekend and hopefully, a week or two away from the stresses of work and every day life.
But, […]

Visitors have been enjoying the show at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park since March, when a new vent exploded open in Halemaumau Crater at the summit of Kilauea. The volcano has sent a continuous flow of fluffy white gas into the sky, adding some excitement to the park’s already impressive lava flows.
But Kilauea has also covered […]

This definitely is news. A couple of years ago, the DOT told Travelocity not to show fare search results for international fares in their "flexible date" searches, unless they included all taxes and fuel surcharges, or at least clearly stated that they were not included (and that they could add hundreds to the fares Travelocity […]

The new Gridskipper launched yesterday, after a few weeks of tinkering, a change of ownership and a change of spring into summer. The verdict? Not too many fans out there.
We actually just got done Windexing our glass house–long weekend coming up, you know–so we don’t plan to throw any stones just yet. But, damn, just […]

Sure Costa Rica has plenty of ecotourism and has been known to host Britney and Mel. But it’s also got some great places to catch a wave.
Playa Jacó and the nearby Playa Hermosa are only about a two-hour drive from the airport in San Jose, but are a world away from the aggravation of flight […]