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• 2 new cruise ships launched in Europe

  
   Carnival Cruise Lines took delivery of the Carnival Breeze on Thursday at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy. After spending the summer and early fall sailing Mediterranean cruises, the 130,000-ton ship will become part of the Miami fleet in November and do Caribbean cruises year-round.

  The Carnival Breeze, the 24th [...]

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• New travel guidebooks hit the stores

  For roadtrippers looking for ideas for this year’s trek, Moon has come out with the sixth edition of Road Trip USA. Also new at the bookstore are National Geographic’s Field Guide to the Water’s Edge and The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Outdoors with Kids guides for New York City and [...]

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• Charleston's Spoleto Festival opens

  I’m too young to have a bucket list, but if I had one, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., would be on it. Seventeen days of theater and other performance art, combined with a dine-around in what is arguably the best foodie city in the South right now. Oh, yes. [...]

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• DIsney Fantasyland expansion: It's all in the details

  
  I'm getting confused about Fantasyland's new castles.  "No, that one is Prince Eric's castle. It will house the Little Mermaid ride," says Chris Beatty, of Walt Disney Imagineering. The one on the left is Beast Castle, which will house the big Be Our Guest restaurant. In between are [...]

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• Road trip attraction: Legoland's new water park opens

  
  Seven months after Legoland Florida opened, the theme park on Saturday opened its water park, a remake of the old Cypress Gardens Splash Island.

  Unlike Orlando’s other water parks connected to theme parks, the new water park is a $12 add-on for people who buy admission to the main [...]

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• Road trip attractions: Zip lines at Florida EcoSafaris

  “I don’t think I can do this,” I told the fellow adjusting my harness. My stomach was knotted with fear.

  “You don’t have to do anything,” he said. “Just pick up your feet and you’ll go without doing another thing.”

  We were standing on a platform 70 feet above the ground [...]

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• Universal Orlando's new Spider-Man is indeed amazing

  
  Before there was Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, there was another ground-breaking ride at Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man.

  When it opened in 1999, Spider-Man was technologically avant garde, a stunning combination of motion programming, 3-D animation and live action that would later [...]

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• Road trip attraction: Golden Gate Bridge at 75

  
  More Americans have visited the Golden Gate Bridge than almost any other landmark in the world. A Travel + Leisure survey found the California landmark ranked behind only the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building as most visited – and just ahead of the Eiffel Tower, Big [...]

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• Airboat ride in alligator territory

  
  It seems like I’ve been hanging out a lot on alligator turf lately: Shark Valley in the Everglades, Myakka River State Park near Sarasota, Wakulla Springs up in the Panhandle. Today I went looking for gators again, this time a little closer to home. A friend took me [...]

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• The psychology of gas prices

  Here’s another take on the ups and downs of gas prices and how they might affect summer travel, coming after the price of a gallon of gas in Miami dropped 23 cents in the last three weeks. Some people make transportation choices that are more psychological than financial, my colleague [...]

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