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Flushing out the truth about travel legends

05/14/10
From getting stuck-by-suction on an airplane toilet seat to discovering that your credit card number is stored on your hotel key car or that the strange smell in a motel room is a dead body entombed under your box spring, there are some strange and spooky stories circulating in the world of travel. Are they […]

Nightmare at 20,000 Peeps

04/12/09
The Washington Post has posted a “Peeps Show” of the 40 top entries in their 3rd annual Peeps Diorama Contest.  You can vote for your fave. May I suggest #7: Nightmare at 20,000 Peeps, by Allie Berg and Jonathan Herr. “A re-creation of the famous episode of the classic “Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” […]

San Diego’s “mystery airport” unveiled

01/12/09
Japan and Hong Kong have airports built on man-made islands, so why not San Diego? That’s apparently the solution a private business group had in mind when it sought a patent for the design of a multilevel airport with three runways that could be built in shallow water and accessed via an underwater tunnel. Now […]

Packing tips from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

12/10/08
Last week, custom agents, or rather a Customs and Border protection dog, at Washington Dulles International Airport smelled something fishy in the suitcase belonging to a man arriving from Africa. As reported in the Washington Business Journal and loads of other places, it wasn’t fish inside that suitcase. The man had three dead monkeys, 10 […]

Wave goodbye to the Hello Kitty airplanes

11/05/08
Goodbye, Kitty? According to an article from Pacific Business News, EVA Air has announced that it will soon be phasing out its two official all-Hello Kitty jets. “The jets feature the Sanrio Co.’s famous white cat with a big pink ribbon over one ear and a few of her other feline friends. EVA Air launched […]
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