- 'Travel tips: Whale watching out west (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
WHALE WATCHING. It's almost whale-watching time again in California. Each year, gray whales can be seen off coastal California between December and March as they make their annual, round-trip migration from the cold waters north of Alaska to the warm waters off western Mexico.
- 'Mexico beckons La Ristra balloon (El Defensor Chieftain)
If the legend that hanging a chile ristra brings good luck is true, León, Mexico, ought to have a lot of it.
- 'Families go along when lawmakers travel (The Indianapolis Star)
WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Mike Pence went to Israel, courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, his wife went, too. Sen. Richard Lugar's wife regularly goes with him to foreign-policy conferences in such places as Italy and Hawaii.
- 'IF YOU GO (San Jose Mercury News)
Getting there: With a few exceptions, the U.S, government does not allow Americans to travel to Cuba. Among those permitted to visit are accredited journalists, professionals traveling for research and government officials.
- 'Private money funds global jaunts (The Indianapolis Star)
WASHINGTON -- Private interests paid nearly $1.6 million for Indiana lawmakers, their aides and family members to travel around the globe during the past decade.
- 'Travel Notes (San Jose Mercury News)
Trips to Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, the Serengeti and several other World Heritage areas are being jointly promoted by the United Nations Foundation and Expedia.com, with profits going toward fostering locally run tourism enterprises at lesser-known World Heritage sites.
- 'Governor looks to further boost trade with Mexico (The Idaho Statesman)
Amy Childress of iAnywhere Solutions in Boise uses a mobile device similar to the ones the company programs with Spanish-language instructions. Staff from iAnywhere, formerly Extended Systems Inc., accompanied the governor in 2003 on his last trade mission to Mexico.
- 'Cruise news you can use (Tacoma News Tribune)
NEW YORK - It's been an event-filled year for the cruise industry, with ships housing Katrina evacuees, ports in New Orleans and Mexico damaged by storms, a freak seven-story wave washing over one ship and a pirate attack on another.
- 'Air-travel troubles are on the rise for seniors (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Jackie Fierstein has had two knee replacements and a hip replacement; a metal bar and pin hold a fractured bone in her ankle. She has enough metal implants to trip any electronic screening device.
- 'This just in (Denver Post)
THIS JUST IN Navajo bar initiation comes with ribbing Troy Eid, a partner with the law firm of Greenberg Traurig in Denver, has been negotiating on behalf of El Paso Natural Gas for a right-of-way renewal agreement on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico.
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