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Where To Go Next for Friday, June 27
06-30-2008
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Devils Tower: A close encounter of the rainy kind By Tom Adkinson Marco Polo Member, Society of American Travel Writers In my mind's eye, my first view of Devils Tower would be a golden moment. The western sun would illuminate the soaring Wyoming monolith against a powerfully blue sky and perhaps reveal a nutcase climber as he tried to scale its heights. That's not what happened. Here's what did. Rain splattered on the windshield as we approached Devils Tower National Monument. The sky was steely gray, the wind blew cold and there were two school buses in the parking lot of the visitors center. It was inauspicious, to say the least.
Devils Tower is in eastern Wyoming, just over the line from the Black Hills of South Dakota and technically part of that region. Devils Tower as we know it today is the result of millions of years of erosion and the forethought of Teddy Roosevelt, who as president stretched the meaning of a law to make this site America's first national monument. If you're of a certain vintage, you've seen Devils Tower, even if you don't realize it. Stephen Spielberg made this peculiar geologic formation famous in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." ...More Recent Articles |
One of the great attractions of www.Rentalo.com, the online vacation rental directory that connects travelers with property owners, is its Special Offers box. Travelers who click on the box get a list of a hundred-or-so top destinations, all of which are offering apartments, cottages and villas at a discount-even during the summer vacation season. These great deals make vacation rentals even more attractive than usual, when they offer more space, more privacy and lower prices than hotel rooms. ...More
Guests who stay at The Reefs this Labor Day can receive a free night at Bermuda's best hotel. They also will be among the first to enjoy the hotel's two brand new restaurants and new multi-million-dollar kitchen that will be complete in August. ...More
Carnival Cruise Lines will launch a new sales promotion - "Endless Summer Celebration" - offering different weekly specials on "Fun Ship" cruises booked during the month of July. The new "Endless Summer Celebration" offers sales promotions on a wide range of three- to 12-day "Fun Ship" cruises to the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico and Europe in 2008-09, with a different promotion featured each week. ...More
Victoria Cruises is launching a Beijing Summer Olympics celebration featuring 50% off published rates on direct bookings for Aug. 8-24 departures of its Yangtze River cruises in China. ...More
Vacation.com will continue to bring high-ranking executives from preferred suppliers directly to members' desktops with four new webinar sessions under the title A View From The Top. Newly scheduled sessions will take place each month through October 2008. ...More
Want to bond with your girlfriends in the great outdoors this summer? How about learning to surf, fly fish or survive in the wilderness - and gorge on lobster and fresh fish - without gaining a pound? In the evening opt for a night of Gaelic fiddling, Acadian music or square dancing with the friendly locals. All for a price that won't break the bank. An added bonus: during the summer when it's hot and steamy in most of the U.S., Atlantic Canada has cool breezes and refreshing temperatures in the 70s. ...More Briefly To celebrate the recent family tax rebate and start to the summer season, New York's Hotel Pennsylvania is offering a Summer Spectacular Special for travelers planning a summer vacation. The small ship travel company, Ecoventura is doing what it can to soften the blow of rising fuel prices. On its Sept. 28-Oct. 5, 2008 departure the company is waiving the usual $125 per person fuel tax surcharge. Cunard Line is proud to announce a new partnership with The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) onboard its trio of famed luxury ocean liners, Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and QE2. To celebrate its newly launched website, The Homestead, America's Freshwater Resort in Glen Arbor has pulled together an impressive 11-week "Vacation Sweepstakes" which offers more than $10,000 in prizes (to be drawn every Friday throughout the summer). Unique Inns, one of North America's first bed and breakfast innkeeping organizations, today announced that its 25th Anniversary Edition Guidebook, a printed directory of the group's 43 member inns, is ready for distribution to current guests and those interested in learning more about the organization and its locations. The newly re-opened Dolder Grand in Zurich, Switzerland, was originally built as a "Curhaus" or a place for guests to relax. Well, times haven't changed - though The Dolder Grand certainly has. |
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