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Tue, 27 July 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-ringo-mystery_oasis1.html The pilot on the Jack Harter Helicopter tour glided the chopper through the lush green valley of Waimea Canyon. Coined "the Grand Canyon of the Pacific," you could smell the gentle fragrance of the Kaua'i laua'e ferns, alluded to in many Hawaiian chants and traditions. Tue, 20 July 2010 16:27:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-ed-kauai.html It's not everyday you run into a man who was both a Bluesbreaker with John Mayall and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist with the Rolling Stones. But I did just that, turning around to face Mick Taylor a few years ago, backstage at the Long Beach Blues Festival. Mon, 19 July 2010 18:35:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-tim-micktaylor.html Cozumel, just off the Yucatan's Mayan Riviera, is Mexico's top tourism island. Throngs of visitors arrive by cruise ship and ferry in all seasons, boosting the island's economy, enjoying its cuisine, crowding its beaches, diving, snorkeling, and seldom venturing even a mile inland. Sun, 18 July 2010 18:43:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-ken-cozumel.html When Dame Helen Mirren walked into the pressroom, one was quite tempted to stand up and courtesy as she is undisputedly one of cinema's most gifted actors and is most outspoken. Mirren is currently starring in "The Love Ranch," the first film she and her husband director Taylor Hackford worked on together since "White Nights" in 1985. Sun, 18 July 2010 18:34:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-bev-helen_mirren.html The ship Magnum Force seemed miserable restricted to its harbor in 1994 - like an insufferable teenager confined as a punishment to his bedroom. Yet the ship was strong, fast and obviously most sea-worthy. Mon, 12 July 2010 09:00:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-eric-alaskaship.html One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, "What setting do I use on the washing machine?" "It depends,' I replied. 'What does it say on your shirt?" Mon, 12 July 2010 08:45:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-raoul-laundryman.html Once upon a time, the joke among those in the cruise industry was that the cruise vacation was something for the "newly wed" or the "nearly dead." I remember those jokes, as well as a time in my own life when I would be embarrassed to say that I was even going on a cruise. Wed, 7 July 2010 09:25:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-ed-lewis_and_clark.html Someone once said a man's home is his castle, a safe refuge for all. Everyone knows the phrase. But in Christian Greuter's case, his accordion-fabrication facility is his castle. Especially now that a ridiculous accordion app exists for the iPad, I crave the real thing, just like a drug. Tue, 6 July 2010 23:50:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-guest-switzerland.html Mick, from Dublin, appeared on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and towards the end of the program had already won 500,000 euros. "You've done very well so far," said Chris Tarrant, the show's presenter, "but for a million euros you've only got one life-line left, phone a friend. Everything is riding on this question. Will you go for it?" Mon, 5 July 2010 14:05:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-raoul-irishmillionaire.html Texas may never get over it but Alaska is our largest state. That's why so many residents have a private pilot license and where villages, even small towns, exist that have no road or rail access - everything comes in by boat. We did on Captain Jeff Behrens' Fantasy Cruises. Tue, 29 June 2010 21:34:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-eric-alaskafaces.html "Tell the world about your love for me." Legend has it that these were the dying words of Mumtaz Mahal to her husband, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The latter had been fighting a campaign in the Deccan Plateau in 1631 when his favorite wife suddenly succumbed after giving birth to their fourteenth child. Mon, 28 June 2010 19:39:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-guest-india.html A man owned a small farm in Australia. The Fair Work Australia Office claimed he was not paying proper wages to his staff and sent a representative out to interview him. Mon, 28 June 2010 19:35:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-raoul-outback.html It's a bit of an understatement to say that I was excited when Icelandair recently began service out of my home city of Seattle directly to the magical jewel of the North which we know as Iceland. Iceland has a je ne sais quoi that some almost intangible reasons makes it my favorite travel destination in Europe... Thu, 24 June 2010 14:33:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-james-iceland.html Mira Sorvino is "Paulie's" daughter, one of Hollywood's most famous "Mafioso" actors, Paul Sorvino. The acting apple doesn't fall from the tree as Mira has carved out a successful, "non-Italiano" career, beginning with her award-winning role in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite for which she won an Oscar. Thu, 24 June 2010 14:29:00 PDT http://www.travelingboy.com/archive-travel-bev-mirasorvino.html