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02-24-2011

Thursday, February 24
Destinations
Chile's wine country: a spirit worth bottling
Chile's Maule wine-growing region, the epicentre of a huge earthquake a year ago, is picking up the pieces... Telegraph (London)

Florida Now: South Beach, Islands for Everyone, the Forgotten Coast
Seafood, shopping, or sailing fan? Art lover or avant-garde architecture aficionado? Scratch the surface and you'll find that Florida's got it all, from wild nightlife to wilderness islands... Conde Nast Traveler

Healdsburg attractions are a wine country getaway
he chic wine country town of Healdsburg has a little secret. Fine wine is just the beginning of the attractions on tap here... Yahoo Travel News

10 stunning underwater Asia sites
It's been said that we know more about the moon than we know about our own oceans... CNN

 Tours and Activities
New York museum creates 9/11 timeline
A timeline, made by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum incorporates audio recordings from phone calls on day of the terrorist attacks, oral histories from survivors and eyewitnesses and photographs and video... Seattle Times

Washington D.C.'s Newseum
The Newseum, an interactive museum in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the role of journalism in history... Travel and Leisure

Lincoln sneaks through Baltimore - again
A man who looked an awful lot like the guy on the $5 bill arrived by carriage at Camden Station in a re-enactment of a secret transit by President-elect Abraham Lincoln exactly 150 years earlier... CNN

In Mumbai, Where the Spices are Fresh
The masala — Hindi and Urdu for 'mixture' - is the mainstay of South Asian cooking... New York Times

 Cruise
Waltz onto a Dancing With The Stars cruise
Christine O'Donnell may not be able to decide whether to strut her stuff on Dancing with the Stars, but you can waltz right onto a cruise with a couple of stars from the hit reality TV show... Baltimore Sun

Former Cruise West chairman pitches new cruise concept
Dick West, the former chairman of Cruise West, surfaced last week for the first time since the demise of his family cruise company, and told Travel Weekly he was promoting a new cruise concept... USA Today

Cruise lines take a wait-and-see approach to calls in Libya
Cruise lines with Libya on their itineraries are in putting contingency plans into action as unrest spreads throughout the North African nation... USA Today

 Transportation
Will this be the year for airline passengers' rights?
The travel industry doesn't exactly have a sterling reputation for keeping its promises... Seattle Times

Aircraft near-misses increasing over Colo.
A NASA database shows more aircraft are having close calls with other planes in the skies over Colorado, which are some of the busiest in the nation... Yahoo Travel News

Over the alps and far away
Take the scenic route from Switzerland to Italy on the Bernina Express... The Australian

Commercial aircraft deaths worldwide up 15 percent
Deaths on commercial aircraft worldwide rose 15 percent last year while the overall accident rate involving Western-built jets fell to an all-time low... Yahoo Travel News

 Lodging
Pinnacle Entertainment Announces Updated Schedule for Baton Rouge Casino Hotel Project
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. announced that it has updated the planned opening for its $357 million Baton Rouge casino hotel, originally scheduled for December 2011... PR Newswire

Stay the night: Chalet Shemshak, Courchevel
It's not cheap, but gourmet food, a pool, and your own driver all soften the blow... The Independent

Mondrian SoHo ready to open
Today, the 25-story Mondrian hotel officially will welcome its first paying guests in New York's hipster- and boutique-filled SoHo district... USA Today

 Other and Odd
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