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• A bid to restore Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus

  
  It was perhaps the most famous road trip since Jack Kerouac’s: An old bus with a psychedelic paint job, a jug of LSD-laced juice, the author of “Once Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in charge, and Kerouac’s driver at the wheel.

  It’s been 49 years since Ken Kesey and his band of Merry [...]

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• Road trip dining: breakfast in Pittsburgh

  Saturday in Pittsburgh and I'm on the shuttle from the Priory Hotel, headed for a late breakfast at DeLuca's in the Strip District. DeLuca's was recommended by a friend (as well by Roadfood.com) for its pancake breakfasts. But when I tell the shuttle driver where I want to go, he laughs. Weekend breakfast in [...]

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• Rental car agencies and bogus bills for damages

  If ever there was something that would scare you about renting a car, it’s recurring stories about rental car companies billing people for repairs for damages they swear they didn’t do -- months after they turned the car in. How do you prove a negative, that that ding in the door didn’t exist when [...]

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• Shuttle Atlantis goes on display June 29

  Not just for space geeks: An exhibit featuring space shuttle Atlantis, the last member of the retired shuttle fleet to go on display, will open June 29, Kennedy Space Center announced Thursday. The 90,000-square-foot, $100 million home for Atlantis is being built around the space shuttle at Kennedy [...]
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• A short tour of the Costa Mediterranea

  In the last few years, I’ve been on 25 or 30 cruise ships, most of them new or newly renovated, sometimes overnight or longer, sometimes just for a few hours. Some features are universally eye-grabbing: dramatic atriums, pool decks, grandly decorated main dining rooms, romantic verandah staterooms. But without spending at least a couple [...]

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• 'Madagascar' coming to Busch Gardens

  
  A new musical show featuring the characters from the Madagascar movies will premiere at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in May. The 20-minute show, Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation will feature pop music performed by a live band. It will be staged in the Stanleyville Theater, which will be refurbished, [...]
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• Road trip: Grapefruit League's Spring Training

  One of Florida’s best road trip itineraries takes place during Spring Training. A few stadiums are still easy day trips from Miami/Fort Lauderdale, but it’s more fun to take in a few games over several days at different stadiums. You’ll have a chance to get closer to professional baseball’s stars, check out the rookies, [...]

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• Royal Caribbean names 2 new ships

  
  Royal Caribbean, which has been very secretive about its next two “Project Sunshine” ships, on Tuesday announced their names and said steel-cutting had begun for the first ship.

  The ships will be Quantum of the Seas, which is scheduled to debut in fall 2014, and Anthem of the Seas, expected to launch in [...]

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• Behind the scenes at United/Fort Lauderdale

  
  I was on my knees, trying not to bang my head on the low ceiling of the airplane’s cargo hold, shoving suitcases out the door and onto the conveyor belt as fast as I could.

  The part of me that likes things orderly — a very small part, [...]

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• New vehicles for hitting the road

  If you could buy a new vehicle for your 2013 road trip, what would it be? C’mon now, open your mind; show some imagination! Ellen Creager, travel editor of the Detroit Free Press, checked out new vehicles at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this month and picked out her seven favorites. [...]

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