- 'Who needs the baggage? Here's to staying put (USA Today)
Next week I'm taking my first plane trip since all the hoopla over the foiled terrorist plot to blow up commercial airliners leaving Britain. Unless you've been on vacation on another planet, you know that airline travel has become as pleasant as a bus ride across the Sahara.
- 'Mexico migrants use cycles to cross Arizona desert (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are using dilapidated bicycles to make a swift, night-time dash over the desert to Arizona from Mexico, border police say.
- 'Oil Falls on Slowing Demand, Iran's Agreement to Start Talks (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell on expectations that gasoline demand will slow with the end of the travel season in the U.S., the world's biggest energy consumer.
- 'Mexican park turns border crossing into sport (The Arizona Republic)
IXMIQUILPAN, Mexico - Visitors to a nature park can pay 150 pesos - about $15 - for what is perhaps Mexico's strangest tourist attraction: A night as an illegal immigrant crossing the Rio Grande.
- 'Make-believe 'illegal' border trek becomes tourist attraction in Mexico (Arizona Daily Star)
IXMIQUILPAN, Mexico ? On a moonless night, the group scurried down the canyon wall, its feet slipping in ankle-high mud. Sirens grew louder as the guide, clad in a ski mask and known as Pancho, urged the group to run faster.
- 'Olathe Delegation Travels to Ocotl?n, Jalisco to Sign Sister Cities Agreement (Kansas City InfoZine)
An Olathe delegation will travel to Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico this week to sign a sister cities agreement and memorandum of understanding with the city, located about 60 miles from Guadalajara, the state capital of Jalisco. During the six-day visit, the delegation will tour businesses and schools, as well as meet with city officials to identify opportunities to work together.
- 'Travel discouraged on area back roads (Ruidoso News)
The route recently was closed by the New Mexico Department of Transportation. Sanchez also closed Forest Service Road 127A because of heavy rain water runoff and partial washout of the road.
- 'Travel industry requests delay in passports (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
The travel industry is pressing the Bush administration to delay a security measure that would require all cruise passengers and air travelers taking trips beyond U.S. borders to carry passports starting Jan. 8.
- 'Mexico's cool tradition lives on in Naco, Sonora (Sierra Vista Herald)
NACO, Sonora, Mexico ? Many of the Bisbee-area residents who travel regularly to this Sonoran border town do so to visit friends and family. Others come for the authentic Mexican food, the affordable dental care or the pharmacies selling medications at bargain-basement prices. Not Debbie Klimek.
- 'In a Twist, a Travel Web Site Plans to Spin Off a Magazine (New York Times)
ShermansTravel.com, a popular Web site that ferrets out discounted travel offers, is entering the offline publishing fray with its own quarterly magazine.
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