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• Road trip attraction: Quilt barn trails

  Here’s an idea for a road trip with a retro theme: quilt barn trails.

  Old-fashioned quilting — albeit sometimes on high-tech sewing machines — has survived and even thrived as a hobby. About a decade ago, an Ohio woman got the idea of decorating her barn with a different kind of mural, a [...]

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• Some Florida parks closed by flooding from Isaac

  If you’re planning a road trip to one of Florida’s state or national parks over the Labor Day weekend, be warned: many were closed because of flooding or other problems caused by Tropical Storm (now Hurricane) Isaac.

  Big Cypress and Everglades National Park reopened on Tuesday, and Dry Tortugas National [...]

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• Keel-laying ceremony for new Princess ship

  At a ceremony marking the beginning of construction, Princess Cruises announced on Tuesday that its newest ship will be named the Regal Princess. 

  The ship, set to debut in spring 2014, will be the second in the line’s new generation of ships. The first is the Royal Princess, which will be inaugurated next June. [...]

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• Air travel: Rebooking after Isaac

  More than a thousand flights had been cancelled by Monday evening because of Tropical Storm Isaac, and the airlines were starting to rebook flights in and out of South Florida as the storm moved north toward landfall. Federal regulations require airlines to refund ticket prices to passengers whose flights were [...]

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• The world's best hotel restaurants?

  I remember when hotel restaurants were places to be avoided. As a category, they had no history of serving exceptional food. As TheDailyMeal points out, that began to change about 20 years ago. The first place I noticed the trend was in Las Vegas, where celebrity chefs were opening branches of their flagship restaurants, most [...]

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• Road trip: Sarasota

  
  Here’s the thing about weekend getaways in Sarasota: You don’t have time for all the good restaurants. I never got to Michael’s on East, which one friend called the best restaurant in town. I never got to the new Belgian place downtown or to Euphemia Haye, which is on nearby Longboat Key. [...]

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• It's Craft Beer Month in Virginia

  You may not have known — I didn’t — that Virginia is developing quite a craft beer community. The state has about 40 craft breweries, not enough to call it an industry yet, but enough to organize a festival this weekend to celebrate the local brews. If you’re not already on the road [...]

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• More people plan to travel over Labor Day

  If you’re planning to travel by car over Labor Day, you’ll be on the road with an estimated 28.2 million other people, the AAA says.

  Eighty-five percent of the 33 million people planning to travel over the holiday are driving, according to the AAA’s travel forecast, which refers to the number of people who say [...]

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• Road trip: St. Augustine to Palm Beach

  Florida Travel + Life has a plan for a long Labor Day holiday -- or any other time you can take off the better part of a week. The magazine outlines an itinerary for a four-day road trip that starts along Florida's northeast coast and follows A1A south to Palm [...]

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• Living the TV life

  Do you ever want to jump right into the middle of your favorite TV series? Live in the castle in Downton Abby (actually Highclere Castle in Hampshire)? Have vodka and oysters with Don Draper at Grand Central Oyster Bar? Robert Reid, Lonely Planet’s U.S. travel editor, has put together [...]

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