The new Lerner Garden of the Five Senses in Boothbay, named for Merion benefactors, affords pleasures to all, regardless of handicap.
"Which was better? Take all you own, and struggle to carry it? Or travel light, and spend half the trip combing the shops for what you've left behind?"
In high-tech equipment, young "astronauts" get training.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The F/A-18 ahead of me weaved and dodged, flitting in and out of my gunsight. I was closing in for the kill, but so was the ground.
Inquirer business reporter Tom Belden blogs about the frustrations and joys of air travel in and out of Philadelphia.
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You can plan now to attend these weekend events, occurring within a few weeks and within a day's drive of Philadelphia.
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Let's face it: Motor coach tours are the perfect adjustment to realities we all know too well. Someone else does the driving. Someone else makes most of the decisions. Someone else hauls the bags. There's a toilet on the bus.
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Train Rides Voted by the Society of American Travel Writers: 1. The Rocky Mountaineer Canadian Rockies from Vancouver to Banff
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - The first thing many visitors want to know is the location of former President George H.W. Bush's summer home. Anyone here can supply the answer: It's at Walker's Point, and no, they don't let visitors in.
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Visiting Italy proved to be a strange and amazing adventure, thanks to our three-night stay at a 700-year-old castle in the hills of Tuscany.
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The crown of liberty has been closed for almost eight years. Since the dark day of Sept. 11, 2001, the observation deck in the crown atop the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor has been off-limits to visitors. Fears of a terrorist attack closed Liberty Island, though the pedestal and the area around it reopened in 2004.
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Question: I've been having some problems with an airline reservation and was wondering whether you could help me. I recently had to cancel a reservation I had made through Travelocity. I spent eight hours on the phone with their incompetent customer service agents, trying to use the credit I received to reschedule another flight on the same airline.
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Here is what a U.S. dollar buys (in commercial trades; consumer rates may be lower). Country July 2 Year ago
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At just 5-by-3-by-1/2-inch, Pexagon's new 500 GB Store-It Colors Portable USB Hard Drive is a great pocket-size place to stash or back up thousands of digital photos, hours of digital video and MP3 files, and a slew of important data files.
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Let a former travel agent help you find a hotel you might not know existed on Blue Hippo Travel, www.bluehippotravel.com.
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We want to see where you go and what you do on vacation this summer. And we'll pay $25 each for the best 10 photos taken from Memorial Day weekend through Aug. 15.
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Did a travel experience move you, change you, give you a new take on life or just great memories?
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ST. LOUIS - The fireworks reflect on the nation's signature river, and that's very interesting. But it's more than that.
- A Bolshevik biggie.'Cover for me," my son Jordan whispers. We are in Hall No. 19 of the Kshesinskaya Mansion in St. Petersburg, Russia, a faded beaux-arts pile built as a private home but seized in 1917 for use as headquarters of the nascent Bolshevik government.
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Like a lot of people who use social media, Israel Hyman and his wife Noell went on Twitter to share real-time details of a recent trip. Their posts said they were "preparing to head out of town," that they had "another 10 hours of driving ahead," and that they had "made it to Kansas City."
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