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Crocodile Capers

Posted on 22. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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What is it about the Aussies and crocodiles? First there was Crocodile Dundee, then Steve “the Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, and now there is a new $30 million theme park in Darwin called Crocosaurus Cove, whose major attraction–the “Cage of Death”–allows thrill-seekers to swim face-to-face with a massive saltwater crocodile. Tourists climb into a clear acrylic [...]

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The Vegas Gambit

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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There are places we never visit because of what we suspect we will find there. We hear accounts from friends, read stories in the media, or see a movie set in the locale, and close our minds to a destination. Sometimes it pays to confront your biases, or as Hunter S. Thompson once put it, “Buy [...]

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Down in Vallarta

Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Hollywood star power created Puerto Vallarata as a tourist destination. The transformation of the sleepy fishing village of 2,000 souls began on November 11, 1954, when Mexicana de Aviación airline inaugurated its Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta flight. One of the first visitors was American movie director John Huston, who built a home here in the small cove of Las Caletas where he lived until [...]

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Strange Therapy

Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Demi Moore loves getting her blood sucked. During a recent interview with David Letterman, the movie actress admitted that she had travelled to an Austrian spa to have her hemoglobin eaten by “highly trained medical leeches.” The hungry little creatures were first placed in her belly button. “You feel them bite down on you, and [...]