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Oregon Airport has its own Oval Office

07/03/12

A southern Oregon airport that drew heat last year for a plan to sell advertising space on its control tower is back with a new money-making scheme is back with a new money-making scheme. The Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport has transformed an empty room in its terminal into a meeting room that looks just like →

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In search of Paul Bunyan

06/29/12

American folklore hero and lumberjack Paul Bunyan was said to be so loud that fellow lumberjacks had to wear earmuffs year round. When he sneezed, legend has it that he blew the roof off the loggers’ bunkhouse. “When he was a baby, it took five giant storks to deliver him,” Carol Olson, manager of the →

Chillin’ out at Philadelphia and Seattle International airports

06/23/12

It may not be so bad to get stuck at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) this summer. The airport has kicked off its summer-long “Just Plane Fun” program, which includes a full-schedule of special events, live entertainment, food and beverage samplings, artist demonstrations and children’s activities. Coming up next week: instant giveaways, art demonstrations, beauty makeovers, →

Fun, new videos from Air New Zealand and British Airways

06/22/12

Air New Zealand, which brought us highly entertaining in-flight safety videos featuring flight attendants dressed in nothing but cleverly applied paint and that pixie-ish, always-exercising Richard Simmons (both videos below), now brings us another version of this in-flight necessity. It’s definitely not as titillating at the “Bare Essentials” video (below), but it is sort of →

Traveling in search of legendary creatures

06/19/12

Monsters don’t just live under beds and in closets. Many travelers and cryptozoologists – people whose study of creatures includes some that may have not yet been proven to exist –say Bigfoot and his legendary brethren are out there; you just need to know where to look. Here are some of the creatures I found →

Virgin America’s Portlandia-themed party kicks off PDX service

06/06/12

On Tuesday, Virgin America added an 18th city, Portland, to its service network adding two daily flights from Los Angeles and two from San Francisco. As is its tradition, the airline had a fun launch event. And, as a former Portland resident, I went along for the ride as a guest. For the launch event, →

To the moon or to the center of the earth

04/01/12

I’m sure I’ll have to update this come Sunday morning, but long before April 1, 2012 rolled around in my time zone, I made a few April Fools’ Day sightings. From the Republic of Vanuatu comes word that Richard Branson has launched “Virgin Volacanic” in order to take travelers to the center of the earth →