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  • After Sandy: dealing with flight cancellations

    Hurricane Sandy has had such a huge impact on travel that it has been the focus of most travel stories the last few days. I've been posting updates on the Herald's website here. I just posted some tips on how to handle flight cancellations; check out the story [...]
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  • Freeport closed to cruise ships at least til Sunday

    It's official: we're not going to Freeport, where the port won't open til tomorrow due to Hurricane Sandy. And right now, the Coast Guard won't let the ship leave the Port of Palm Beach, although there's a possibility that later we can take a 'cruise to nowhere' (translation: open the' [...]

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  • Bahamas cruise: Still stuck in port

    As soon as I woke up, I pulled open the curtain and looked out. Darn! The cargo dock of the Port of Palm Beach. Twelve hours after the Bahamas Celebration was scheduled to leave for Freeport, Grand Bahama, we were still in Florida.

    Late afternoon Friday, after the captain announced that [...]

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  • Shuttle Atlantis to make its final journey


    On Friday, the last space shuttle will make its final journey. Atlantis, the last orbiter from the retired shuttle fleet to move to its exhibition space, will travel from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (pictured above) to the visitors complex. The daylong, 10-mile journey will include a couple stops, [...]

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  • Hurricane cruise: Will we get to the Bahamas?

    It wasn't my intention to cruise into a hurricane. But when I booked this cruise almost two months ago, I thought it was a safe gamble since we would be past the peak of hurricane season.

    So here I am at the Port of Palm Beach, waiting for the Bahamas Celebration' [...]

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  • Hurricane cruise: Will we get to the Bahamas?

    It wasn't my intention to cruise into a hurricane. But when I booked this cruise almost two months ago, I thought it was a safe gamble since we would be past the peak of hurricane season.

    So here I am at the Port of Palm Beach, waiting for the Bahamas Celebration' [...]

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  • White rhino born at Busch Gardens


    A white rhino was born at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay this week, the seventh white rhino to be born at the park since 2004. The baby, shown with mom Kisiri, is not yet named. It weighed about 140 pounds at birth and is expected to gain about four pounds a day [...]

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  • Countdown to Legoland's "Star Wars" installation


    Models that will be used in Legoland’s newest attraction — a Miniland section based on the Star Wars movie series — have arrived from model shops in Germany and California. Now, model builders at the Winter Haven park (including Jason Miller, master model builder, pictured above) are putting the parts [...]

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