Travel Babel

• Two Denver Museums, Two Special Exhibits

  Denver Art Museum and Denver Museum of Nature & Science
  
  Museums exert a magnetic pull on me. Whenever I travel --whether to a significant city with world-class museums or a small town with a tiny museum filled with local teasures and memorabilia -- I visit as many as [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  

• Denver-DIA Rail Line Construction to Start in '10

  Major news for metro Denver travelers, but train linking London and Madrid will be operating first
  
  The week has been hectic, and my newspaper reading was minimal, so I missed a brief Associated Press report in Wednesday's Denver Post indicating that "construction of a $1.3 billion train'" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:36pm EST
  

• Why

  Seoul's Incheon International number one once again
  On Monday, I wrote a post about The Daily Beast's take on 27 US airports, the best of which isn't all that great when compared with others on the world stage. The Beast called its post "Airports From Hell."' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:40pm EST
  

• Happy Thanksgiving

  
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:04am EST
  

• "What's the biggest problem facing the travel industry?"

  
  Chris Elliott wants your thoughts
  
  That's the question traveler consumer advocate Christopher Elliott is asking readers of his award-winning website. He has declared today as "open-mic Tuesday," and he wants to hear from you. If you've got a gripe or, more productively, a' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:36am EST
  

• Daily Beast's New Airport Rankings

  The Daily Beast studied, rated and ranked 27 US airports
  
  The Daily Beast's provocative headline, "Airports from Hell," is affixed to an analysis of 27 top airports in the US in eight specific areas, including on-time arrivals/departures so far in 2009 and a separate evaluation of holiday arrivals and departures, [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• New Denver Sheraton Downtown is City's Largest Hotel

  Former Adam's Mark reborn after $70 million renovation
  
  The gleaming hotel straddling downtown Denver's Court Place place is a new Sheraton, but it's not a new hotel. The tired Adam's Mark is now the Sheraton Denver Downtown following a year-long, $70 million total renovation from the parking garage to [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:13pm EST
  

• Winter Park Ski Train Poised for Return

  Train-only and train/lodging packages are options for this ski season
  
  
  The Rio Grande Scenic Ski Train seems "this close" to finalizing operational agreements for the 2009-10 ski season. The newest incarnation of the inconic ski train between Denver and Winter Park is ready [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:19am EST
  

• A Gift from the Cyber-Magi: Free Airport WiF

  Google enables free WiFi at 47 new airports for the holidays
  
  We frequent Denver International Airport users have long been spoiled with free WiFi in the main terminal and on all three concourses. E-mail addicts and chronic web surfers like me are shocked and/or disappointed when we are waiting for flights [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  

• Five Stars Again: The Broadmoor'r Anniversary of Honors

  Colorado's top-of-the-heap Broadmoor offers off-season values; book now!
  
  It is no surprise at all that The Broadmoor, a pink palace on the southwest edge of Colorado Springs, has been awarded the top Five Star rating from the Mobil / Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:02am EST
  

• Berlin Wall Sections: A Fragment Here, A Fragment There

  November 9, 2009, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall
  
  
  With so much strife on the planet, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall gives hope and celebration. After all, not long before the Wall came down in [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:45am EST
  

• Nottoway Plantation: 150-Year-Old Louisiana Jewel

  Newly restored antebellum mansion is glorious to visit -- for a tour or for the night
  
  In 1859, shortly before the War Between the States, John Hampden Randolph, his wife, Emily Jane Liddell Randolph, and their 11 children moved into the newly completed Nottoway Plantation in the heart of Louisiana's' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

• San Miguel de Allende's Nearby Botanical Garden

  Charco del Ingenio showcases Western Hemisphere cacti in a protected landscape
  
  The roughly 154 acres occupied by the unique botanical garden called Charco del Ingenio outside of San Miguel de Allende is reportedly second most important collection of cacti in Mexico, after Mexico City. That would rank Cacti [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:05pm EST
  

• Mega Mao Joins Other Gigantic Sculptures

  
  The chairman joins four US presidents and one very nobel Native American leader
  
  Sulptor Gutzon Borglum (who is always referred to as "Borglum") and his helpers carved these four gigantic heads of four important presidents out of South Dakota granite. Mt.Rushmore is now a National Monument, administered [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:57pm EST
  

• By the Sea, By the Santa Barbara Sea

  I recently attended a conference at the Four Seasons Resort, The Biltmore. A handful of people seemed to squeeze in a run or a walk on the beach, but all I had was the occasional ocean view when dashing across the beautifully landscaped property between my room and the [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:12pm EST
  

• 'Oasis of the Seas' Now at Sea

  Enormous floating city, the 'Oasis of the Seas,' heading for Florida
  
  
  
  The 'Oasis of the Seas' should be called the 'Behemoth of the Seas': 1,187 feet long, 208 feet wide 213 feet (that's more than 20 stories!) high from the water line, 16 passenger decks,' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:25pm EST