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What If You Want To Sell House Quickly To Ease Your Currrent Financial Constraints? Make A Brisk House Sale With A Quick House Sale Business

What if you want to Sell property fast to ease your latest financial constraints? What if you could make a Fast house sale in less than four weeks or so? Then hire the services of a Quick house sale company who will be able to take your dwelling off your hands in a matter of [...]

Maggots force plane back to gate in Atlanta

Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate so the bin could be cleaned.

Virgin Hotels? Richard Branson Drops Some Hints for the Future

HotelChatter
· We chat with Richard Branson about the concept of Virgin Hotels
· Inside the Thompson Toronto (Part 1)
· What the Heck is a Telepresence Suite?
· What hotel has a HUGE pillow menu?

VegasChatter
· If Vince Neil is in jail, what happens to his private jets?
· How to get Bob Dylan tickets
· “Vegas! The Show” opens
· Another Vegas Virgin talks about her first time

Seattle: Hotel-flight deals still available for Fourth of July

Ever think of entering a rocking chair race or engaging in sumo wrestling — while clad in an inflatable suit, no less –for the Fourth of July? The Family 4th at Lake Union in Seattle will celebrate the holiday from noon to 11 p.m. with these wacky activities, along with a beer garden, entertainment and [...]

Passport and Visa Fee Hikes Hit July 13

Time to send your passport to get those extra pages added in ASAP. Passport fees are going up, and they’re doing it soon, on July 13 to be exact.

These changes come as the US Government looks for ways to deepen its coffers as passport fees subsidize the State Department’s work overseas, including emergency relief for American abroad. Sure, it’s for a good cause, but these higher passport prices mean for a family of four to get passports, it’d cost $640, and that’s a little more than many have stashed in the cookie jar for a rainy day.

The full rundown of passport price hikes:

ACLU issues warnings for travel to Arizona

The nation’s top civil liberties group on Wednesday issued travel alerts for Arizona, saying the state’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.

Raft Up on the River

We’re envious of Traveler’s director of editorial marketing Lynn Ackerson — she has friends with sailboats! She sends this dispatch from a recent outing:

Looking for a way to
multiply your summer fun?  Grab
some friends who own sailboats, head for the nearest river or lake and
“raft-up” your boats.

Kids Love D.C.

Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. Now he’s writing a column that focuses on traveling with kids.

Last week, I found myself in the familiar situation of being invited down to National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., only this time with my sons Tyler and Stefan. The occasion was a reunion of the National Geographic Kids Hands-On Explorer Challenge winners from the last four years. Since the boys joined the 2009 expedition team in Peru, they qualified as alumni. Of course, they were thrilled at the chance to reconnect with some of the other kids from the trip.  But perhaps the bigger draw was the fact that they’d have the opportunity to further explore a city they’ve come to really enjoy. After all, there’s no shortage of things for kids to discover in this town, and they were anxious to return to a couple of their favorite spots.

There’s a reason why D.C. is such a popular destinations for families from all over the country. The city offers wall-to-wall historic American landmarks and some of the best museums in the country, if not the world. A visit to the Nation’s Capital should certainly include the monuments and memorials, the Smithsonian, and even the National Zoo. Other popular attractions we’ve personally sampled, and would recommend, include The International Spy Museum, the National Archives, and the National Portrait Gallery. Our personal favorites, however, are the Newseum and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, so if Washington, D.C. is in your plans this summer, you may want to make them a part of your busy itinerary.