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Best American Cities for Biking

Bikes! ©postalheritage Amsterdam’s bike-friendly influence is welcomed stateside, in Huffington Post’s list of the 10 best cities for biking. From Portland, Oregon to St. Petersburg, Florida–cyclists have the right of way. The cities were rated on total bikeable miles, accesibility to bike shares, amount of bike paths, and scenic rides. Katie Adamson of Visit Denver [...]

Photo of the Moment: The Sled Dogs of Pray, Montana

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A Baseball Camp For the Young at Heart

A real version of fantasy baseball   ©theseanster93 Pro Ball Baseball Clinic is the perfect winter retreat for the baseball fanatic hoping to improve their game. Held annually in January, the three-day clinic welcomes players of all levels. This year’s clinic was held at the San Diego Padre’s training facilities in Peoria, Arizona. The clinics [...]

Washington, D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival Celebrates 100th Year

Cherry blossoms in bloom ©reuters.com In 1912, Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo presented 3,000 cherry trees to the city of Washington, D.C. and the rest has been history. This year marks the centennial Cherry Blossom Festival, with an additional three weeks extended to the usual two week celebration. The cherry trees started blooming early and just [...]

John Wilkes Booth Bobblehead Removed From Gettysburg Gift Shop

Gettysburg 2009 canon ©BIGDOG3c (J. Todd Poling) Bobblehead dolls of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, were pulled from the shelves of the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore on Saturday. Officials at the park–including the park superintendent, the foundation president and the bookstore manager–decided the bobbleheads shouldn’t be for [...]

“The Hunger Games” Set Hoping to Boost North Carolina Tourism

Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, stars of “The Hunger Games”  © The Hollywood Reporter When filming wrapped on the long-awaited “Hunger Games” in North Carolina, it became the largest on-location movie shoot of all time for the state. With all the anticipation leading up to the March 23 release of the film, North Carolina tourism [...]

Iowa Town Reluctant to Expand Their “Field of Dreams”

Field of Dreams Movie Site ©Wednesday Elf – Mountainside Crochet If they build it they will come? But The town of Dyersville, Iowa isn’t so sure if they really want them to come… Dyersville is home to the field and house where the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. The city is currently considering [...]

And This Little Piggy Went to a Hawaiian Hotel

Hotel Piglet ©Seattle PI Guests at a hotel near Honolulu’s airport in Hawaii were stunned when they spotted and then caught a baby pig that had been roaming the hotel’s lobby. The 5-week old piglet was turned over to the Hawaiian Humane Society and is currently being bottle fed by volunteers. It is still unclear [...]

NASA Landsat Images Reveal Vegas Urban Sprawl

Landsat view of Las Vegas & Lake Mead ©V-rider Just in time to celebrate the Landsat 5′s 28th birthday, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey released an interesting time-lapse video chronicling the growth of Las Vegas from 1972 to 2010. The Landsat program is the longest running project acquiring satellite imagery of Earth. Over the [...]

Gospel Tourism Overwhelms Harlem’s Historical Churches

Tourist queue to church in Harlem ©Camera on autopilot The rules are simple and spelled out in multi-lingual signs; no photography, no flip-flops, no exiting during the sermon. But more often than not, the rules are ignored by the international tourists visiting Harlem’s historical churches. Ushers are transformed into bouncers and security guards, monitoring the [...]

Penguins Waddle the Aisles on Delta Flight

Penguins ©HighlandBlade When Delta Flight 486 from Atlanta to New York hit its cruising altitude, passengers were in for a big surprise. Two penguins onboard the flight were let out of their travel crate and allowed to roam the aisles of the plane. The penguins, named Pete and Penny, ages 6 and 12, were en [...]

Mike Tyson to Open Vegas Show in April

Mike Tyson, the renaissance man ©LATimes.com You read the headline right folks. Mike Tyson, who is no stranger to Las Vegas, will open “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth – Live on Stage” at the MGM Grand next month. Tyson’s show is said to be ‘the no-holds-barred life story of the iconic boxer as it has never [...]

Visit a National Park Without Getting Off the Couch

Grand Canyon ©kashyap_hc First Google Maps brought Street View to the Amazon, then to the Great Barrier Reef. Now, granola bar company Nature Valley is bringing the trail to your computer screen with “Trail View”–a new program that lets you digitally hike the trails of three national parks without taking a step outside your house. [...]

Hike U.S. National Parks From the Comfort of Your Own Home

Grand Canyon, south rim ©filippo rome Much like the street view option on Google Maps, “Trail View” allows users to virtually walk through national parks of the United States. Trail View was created by the Nature Valley granola bar company, a longtime supporter of national parks. Users can cover over 300 miles of the Grand [...]

Wisconsin Hosts World Championship Cheese Contest

Cheeses ©_gee_ This week, over 50,000 pounds of cheese rolled into Madison, Wisconsin for the biannual World Championship Cheese Contest. The competition is considered the World Cup of cheeses and draws heavy hitters of the cheese world from the U.S. and France. This year, there was a record 2,503 entries from 24 different countries, including [...]

New York to Open First Gay Hotel

Rendered image of The Out NYC ©dailymail.co.uk Advertised as a “straight-friendly urban resort”, The Out NYC will open its doors to gay travelers on March 28th. The massive resort features a wellness center, three courtyards, a glass-enclosed pool, and a nightclub. The hotel will not only be a new destination for gay travelers, but Manhattan [...]

Stay at 10 History-Making Hotels

Hotel Nacional de Cuba ©NatalieMaynor Sometimes a hotel room is more than just a place to sleep. On your next trip, instead of staying at a “historic hotel” stay at a hotel that has helped made history. These 10 hotels compiled by CNN give travelers the opportunity to rest their heads in rooms that have [...]

Floridians Set Record For World’s Longest Bikini Parade

St Andrews State Park Beach ©Gregory Moine On Tuesday, 450 women donned bikinis and converged on Panama City Beach to march one mile and set a new Guinness World Record for the longest bikini parade. The Panama City parade crushed the previous record set by bikini paraders in Australia. The Australian parade last year had [...]

Nederland, Colorado Celebrates Frozen Dead Guy Days

don’t ask – frozen dead guy days ©4Neus Last weekend the people of Nederland, Colorado celebrated their annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival. The concept of the festival dates back to 1989 when Grandpa Bredo Morstoel died in his native Norway. Four years later, his frozen remains were sent to Nederland where family members founded [...]

Rare Opportunity to Tour Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Hanford Nuclear Site ©Philo Nordlund Registration opened today for free public tours of the Hanford nuclear site, a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex in the U.S. state of Washington. Hanford was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project and the site is home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor [...]

Americans Say Fellow Americans Are The World’s Worst Tourists

Tourists and touters ©Klearchos Kapoutsis A new survey conducted by LivingSocial found that Americans rate themselves as the world’s worst tourists. LivingSocial surveyed 5,600 respondents in five countries. Northern neighbors in Canada agreed with the Americans’ self assessment as did the Australian respondents. The Irish, on the other hand, rated the British as the worst [...]

24 Hour Cupcake ATM Opens in L.A.

24/7/365 cupcakes  ©jillian nicole Much to the delight of those with a raging sweet tooth, Sprinkles Cupcakes has a fix for the common sugar craving–cupcakes on demand. The Los Angeles-based cupcake shop is now offering a 24-hour “Cupcake ATM” at their Beverly Hills store. Sprinkles states that the automatic cupcake machine dispenses freshly baked cupcakes, cupcake [...]

Colorado Town Rejects “WTF” Tourism Slogan

WTF Fruita ©fruita.org The people of Fruita, Colorado aren’t afraid to make a joke at their own expense. The town, popular with mountain bikers, has a sports shop that sells “FU” (“Fruita, USA”) decals and the town hosts an annual festival dedicated to a headless chicken named Mike. But not everyone is laughing after a [...]

Disney Axes Obesity Exhibit After Complaints

Spaceship Earth ©Joe Shlabotnik Walt Disney World is retooling a new interactive Epcot exhibit tackling the problem of childhood obesity, after critics complained it was insensitive to the obese and reinforced stereotypes. The exhibit, called Habit Heroes, featured animated fitness superheros Will Power and Callie Stenics (say it fast) and super-sized villains Snacker and Lead [...]

15 Surprising International Food Etiquette Rules

豚しゃぶ御膳 ©mitsukuni Do you have good table manners? Sure you may keep your elbows off the table and your napkin on your lap, but do you know what to do with your chopsticks in Japan? Or how to drink your vodka in Russia? Manners get more complicated when you head abroad, so in the spirit [...]

Photo of the Moment: The Sparkle of Empire Diner, New York City

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KY Takes Down Offensive Tourism Website

roadkill ©Sean MacEntee A website that advertised Kentucky to British tourists as a destination to play “roadkill bingo” while visiting horse farms and bourbon distilleries has been taken down. Gil Lawson, spokesman for the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, stated that the content on the website was offensive, including a game to track the [...]

Photo of the Moment: The Daily Commute, Seattle

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Southwest Airlines Announcement Causes “Mom Scare”

Southwest 737-700 ©Pylon757 A Southwest Airlines pilot inadvertently caused a bomb scare when he attempted to wish the mother of an air traffic controller happy birthday. The incident came after a traffic controller at the Federal Aviation Administration Terminal Radar Approach facility alerted a pilot that his mother was on Southwest flight 1155. When the [...]

Summer Camp at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

Fallingwater © smithsonianmag.com High school students with a passion for architecture, have the chance to apply for a summer residency at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Students will work with licensed architects and build a portfolio during the week-long program. K-12 educators can also apply for a week-long residency, focused [...]

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