Apr 30
2009
Apr 30
2009A convenience store with the best goods
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Sheetz, we bow down before thee.
Apr 30
2009World’s Best Airports
Filed Under (Travel Babel) by Admin on 30-04-2009
The Airports Council International recently released its annual lists of the world’s best airports, based on customer satisfaction surveys conducted on-site. Some 200,000 such surveys are regularly conducted throughout the year. Asia took the top four spots, with Halifax, Nova Scotia, finishing the top five list:
Apr 28
2009Dead microfilm reader stalls Donora series
Filed Under (World Travel) by Admin on 28-04-2009
Apr 28
2009National Trust’s Endangered Places List
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Mid-century hotel, crumbling hangar, historic bridge all make “the list” of threatened places
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Apr 28
2009Kudos to a coworker
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Apr 26
2009Mexico: Swine Flu Fears
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Outbreak in Mexico sets off pandemic in cyberspace impacts travel to Mexico
Associated Press headline: “Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears.” About one thousand cases (and 81 deaths) in Mexico, mostly in Mexico City, the capital, “where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.The worrisome new virus which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before.” Eight cases, more or less (but no deaths), in California and Texas.
Apr 25
2009Stray dog
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Apr 24
2009No feeding the mice at this historic hotel
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Apr 24
2009RIP: Ski Train
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Denver-Winter Park train off-track — perhaps forever
Click here to read about my trip Riding the Ski Train to 
Winter Park less than a month ago. Delightful as the ride was, and much as we intending to take it more often, it most likely won’t happen again. Surprisingly — in fact, shockingly — owner Phil Anschutz either has sold or is about to seel the Ski Train rolling stock to the Algoma Central Railway, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway Company, that among other excursions runs the Snow Train from Sault Ste.-Marie, Ontario, into the white world of the Agawa Canyon (right).
Winter Park less than a month ago. Delightful as the ride was, and much as we intending to take it more often, it most likely won’t happen again. Surprisingly — in fact, shockingly — owner Phil Anschutz either has sold or is about to seel the Ski Train rolling stock to the Algoma Central Railway, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway Company, that among other excursions runs the Snow Train from Sault Ste.-Marie, Ontario, into the white world of the Agawa Canyon (right).