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Travel Trivia Challenge

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A new year; a new quiz.
1. Burning Man, a bizarre, eight-day festival dedicated to radical self-expression, takes place annually in Black Rock Desert in which U.S. state?
A. California
B. Utah
C. Colorado
D. Nevada
2. What is the only country to feature a building on its national flag?
A. Panama
B. Lebanon
C. Cambodia
D. Albania

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Top Travel Destinations for 2009

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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This is the time of year when travel publications and online travel guides release their lists of the top travel destinations for 2009. These media outlets do not predict the most popular travel spots in 2009, a compilation that would undoubtedly vary little from year to year. Instead, they attempt to shed light on fast-rising [...]

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Searching for Shangri-La

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Over the Christmas holidays I watched an excellent documentary on PBS entitled “The Search for Shangri-La.” The episode, one of a four-part series called “In Search of Myths and Heroes,” was narrated by British historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, who takes us on a remarkable journey into one of the most remote and austere places on [...]

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Baseball’s Valhalla

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A few years ago my brother and I made a pilgrimage to Cooperstown, New York, to see what is arguably North American’s most famous sports shrine–the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It was early summer and we drove down from Toronto, a seven-hour, sun-baked trip through a rural landscape of green rolling hills, cornfields and [...]