813 TRAVEL

Fantasy camp for those who love to fly (AP)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:57:36 +0000

AP - Eric Mueller’s vacation started when his plane filled with smoke. Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft.

Live like a Copper King in Butte, Mont. (AP)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:23:18 +0000

AP - A scandal over the fortune of reclusive mining heiress Huguette Clark has renewed interest in the life of her father, copper magnate William A. Clark, once one of the nation’s richest men.

Discovering Agnes Martin's artistic roots (AP)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:23:16 +0000

AP - A Taos museum is about to open an exhibit by an abstract painter who was a quiet fixture of the local community but who was well-known in the art world for her seemingly simple and muted grid paintings.

Every February Yosemite waterfall turns to lava (AP)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:23:29 +0000

AP - A window of time just opened in Yosemite National Park when nature photographers wait, as if for an eclipse, until the moment when the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon.

Thailand questions 'open door' after terror plot (AP)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:23:28 +0000

AP - Unwinding with bar girls at a beach town came first. Building bombs was allegedly for later.

Lucky's Place a colorful Everglades tourist draw (AP)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:21:48 +0000

AP - The tourists in their rental cars creep down the Everglades byway known as Loop Road. Some are searching for alligators, exotic birds or maybe a ghost orchid. But others, tipped off by a guidebook or Internet post, are looking for a colorful, ramshackle spot called Lucky’s Place. And when they find the old metal Lucky Strike cigarette sign and grave marker by the side of the road, they hit the brakes and head in.

Loved 'The Artist'? See LA's old silent film spots (AP)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:17:02 +0000

AP - From around 1910 to the late 1920s, the silent film industry dominated Los Angeles.

Just in time for Carnival: Beginner's guide to Rio (AP)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:49:57 +0000

AP - “Brazil is not for beginners,” the late, great Brazilian composer Tom Jobim once quipped. Nowhere does the remark hold more true than for the country’s pulsing, chaotic oceanfront metropolis, Rio de Janeiro.

Legendary Apache warrior subject of Ariz. exhibit (AP)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:49:41 +0000

AP - The story of a legendary Apache warrior who is said to have walked without leaving footprints as he evaded thousands of Mexican and U.S. soldiers easily overshadows that of other Apaches who were trying to protect their people and way of life from encroachment.

Fla. spring training is laid-back fun in the sun (AP)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:49:40 +0000

AP - Major league baseball teams started coming to Florida for spring training almost a century ago, traveling by rail from the often still-frozen North to get in shape and play some exhibition games in the sun.