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  • Freshwater Oasis opens at Discovery Cove in Orlando


    A new swimming and wading area called Freshwater Oasis, populated by Asian otters and marmosets native to South America, opened this week at Discovery Cove, a small, boutique park associated with (and across the street from) SeaWorld Orlando. Designed as a freshwater spring under a rainforest canopy, the oasis [...]

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  • Key West: Who's your Papa?


    Wayne Raffesberger has a Hemingway-esque beard, and although he doesn’t admit it, he’s quite a Hemingway fan. (He has a six-toed cat named Ernie, OK?) Last year, Wayne brought his beard, photos of him with his cat, and a picture of himself climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro (as in The [...]

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  • Most popular spots for July 4 travel

    Where is everyone going for the July 4 holiday? Priceline.com says it knows where — to New York, Chicago, San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas, for a start. What’s interesting about Priceline.com’s list, though — and in a little bit, I’ll give you their full top-50 list — is [...]

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  • Nocturnal animals promote Summer Nights at Busch Gardens

    Meet Darwin. He’s an echidna. He looks like a hedgehog, but he’s not. That's his snout you see. He’s only recently been introduced to his mate-to-be, named Adelaide. Like the cities they’re named for, they are from Australia. And they are nocturnal, which is why Darwin came to the [...]

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  • Can the Hatfields and McCoys bring tourism to southern Appalachia?

    Arguably the most famous family feud in U.S. history was fought along the Tug River, which forms part of the border between Kentucky and West Virginia, where tourism officials are hoping to turn that feud into a tourist draw.

    The feud was the rivalry between the Hatfield and McCoy families, [...]

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  • Road trip dining: Best cities for BBQ

    Yesterday I gave you TheDailyMeal.com’s list of the world’s most outrageous restaurants. Today, I bring you comfort food — relatively speaking — with Food & Wine’s list of the best cities for BBQ. The list has about 20 cities or regions, says what’s distinctive about each and offers a [...]

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  • World's most outrageous restaurants

    TheDailyMeal.com returns with another of its lists of odd and outlandish meals. This time: World's most outrageous restaurants. The Disaster Cafe in Lloret de Mar, Spain, simulates recurring 7.8 earthquakes. Ka-Tron Flying Chicken in Thailand features flaming chickens (already cooked) catapulted across the room and caught by waiters on unicycles. [...]

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  • Visiting the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires

    The only reason I went to Recoleta Cemetery when I was in Buenos Aires last fall was to see Eva Peron’s tomb. Unexpectedly, though, I was fascinated by the old and exclusive cemetery and its many ornate mausoleums, and ended up spending about 2 ½ hours there. 

    While my friend [...]

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  • Chattooga River Festival marks anniversary of 'Deliverance'

    It was 40 years ago that the movie Deliverance introduced the public to the Chattooga River, which divides Georgia and South Carolina. Much of the movie was filmed on the river — the Cahulawassee River in the movie — and in rural north Georgia. Its portrayal of uneducated hillbillies [...]

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  • Legoland: Beach balls in the air


    Celebrating the opening of its water park last month, Legoland Florida gathered people and beach balls in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most people keeping beach balls in the air.  Thursday, Legoland announced that Guinness had made it official: There were 1,294 [...]

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