Picture the gorgeous beach you spent a week on this summer.Now picture that same beach next summer, destroyed. Perhaps it eroded so much that there's barely room to spread out a towel. Maybe a colossal concrete hotel is being built where the sand dunes used to be. Maybe it has been coated with a slick of spilled oil. Hopefully, your slice of paradise will remain well preserved. But at many beaches around the world, nightmares like these are coming true (just ask anyone who lives on the Gulf Coast).
(CNN) -- The caviar and smoked salmon were superb, the chilled champagne flowed freely and the service was impeccable as Jake and Linda Richter gazed at each other across a table covered with white linen and set with fine china.
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Miami is featured in the most recent episode of the Amateur Traveler Podcast. The host Chris Christensen speaks with a Miami native to dispell the myths created by the mass media regarding the city. TB
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Southwest Airlines may soon double the number of its flights to the New York City area as a result of a deal that would allow Continental and United to move forward with the carriers' $3.15 billion merger agreement.
September 18th 2010 is Open Lighthouse Day in Maine. TB
The U.S. Coast Guard, the State of Maine and the American Lighthouse Foundation are pleased to announce the second annual Maine lighthouse open house.
Last year, hundreds of people visited lighthouses along the Maine coast in the largest effort of its kind in the nation. This year we expect another fun family event.
