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• Passports for Aliens

  
  Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates — Authority: 119
  New Mexicans might need passports on domestic flights, starting Jan. 1. That is, unless the state gets an extension on the New Year’s deadline in order to comply with the Real ID Act , which imposes various standards on state driver’s licenses in order for them to be accepted for “official purposes,” such as ...
  9 hours ago

• The Mayflower II: Stepping into America’s Pilgrim Past and the Ship That Started It All

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  As always, this week in November, with its turkeys, cranberry sauce, and expressions of thanks has Americans thinking not just of food or Christmas shopping, but of the little town in Massachusetts we all learned about every year as schoolchildren: Plimouth (or Plymouth) Plantation, where the first Thanksgiving was ...
  6 days ago

• Cuba travel ban debate elicits strong feelings

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 677
  No one can remember the last time they had a full House of Representatives committee hearing on whether to lift the U.S. travel ban on Castro’s Cuba. Perhaps that’s why some strong feelings spilled out into the open. Florida Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a staunch defender of keeping the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Myrtle Beach Ripley’s Experience

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 430
  Iron Maiden torture chamber at Ripleys Believe It or Not! I loved the Ripley’s Believe  It or Not! cartoon as a kid.  Learning about  Robert Ripley’s weird and wacky discoveries around the world was always intriguing.  So there was no way I’d pass up the strip of Ripley’s attractions on Ocean Blvd in ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Travel Memories

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  One Saturday afternoon, when I was eight years old, I asked my mother for a few sheets of paper and a pen. She tore out a few sheets from the memo pad she used to write casual letters, and grabbed a Bic from the cup attached to the wall near the kitchen phone.  I sat [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Keeping small towns special: murals in Alva, Oklahoma

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  On a recent trip to Alva, Oklahoma (home to my Tourism Currents business partner Becky McCray) I slammed on the brakes while passing the local farm co-op store downtown.Painted on the side of their one-story building was an intriguing mural about threshing; the center part was painted and colored in but the edges were ...
  3 weeks ago

• Postcards, Art and The Future

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  Earlier this year, Tohono Chul in Tucson put out a call to artists asking for 4 inch by 6 inch postcards representing a real or imagined trip to Arizona.  The cards were to be made in any kind of fiber art technique, and were to be sent unprotected through US mail.The 174 submissions that poured [...]
  4 weeks ago

• See the original Starbucks in Seattle’s Pike Place Market

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  There are many who decry the “Starbucks on every corner” dominance of the Seattle-based coffee shop chain, but I would submit that they’ve sure done a great job of elevating the average American’s sophistication about coffee.I mean, Folger’s, anyone? Maxwell House?I didn’t think so.So, in homage to their ...
  5 weeks ago

• Walkway on the Hudson: A Civic Project and Pedestrian Destination on a Grand Scale

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  On October 3rd, 6000 people turned out to commemorate the opening of a multi-million-dollar civic project the scope of which probably hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression. Of course, it’s hardly the Hoover Dam, or the Interstate Highway System, but it’s been decades since any federal or state government ...
  5 weeks ago

• Only one day in L.A.? Head for the Getty Center.

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  For as long as I can remember, any trip to Los Angeles always involved spending the day at Disneyland, visiting with Micky, Minnie, and the rest of the gang. But on my last stopover in Los Angeles,  I was talked into visiting the Getty Center instead. Enticed by the promise of  blue skies, amazing views, [...]
  5 weeks ago

• The Bayeux Tapestry - the quicksand scene

  
  Through The Sandglass — Authority: 411
    My daughter is a great fan of The Simpsons (recently celebrating their 20th anniversary), and enjoys challenging anyone to name any topic for which she cannot quote an episode in which that topic featured. Sometimes, I feel as if Im getting that way about sand, given the diversity of contexts in which it shows ...
  5 weeks ago

• New York State’s Hudson River Valley Celebrates 400 Years of History

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 419
  2009 marks the year when the Hudson River Valley celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic journey up the Hudson River. This voyage was arguably the most important event for European involvement in North America since Columbus stumbled upon the continent on his way to China.That’s about as old as ...
  5 weeks ago

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