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BEST TIPS FOR TRAVELERS? LONELY PLANET, OF COURSE. They've been doing it for ages and they know whereof they speak. Check
out this blog for UK Travel
Editor Tom Hull's suggestions, as well as some great tips from traveler-readers:
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The ancient city of ACOMA in New Mexico. (Photo © Roger Archibald)
(Technology, Entertainment, and Design thinkers here).
Try also www.lifehack.org.
NEED TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? IF YOU'RE GOING TO FRANCE, OR IF YOU ARE NOT, AND ARE It's a great site loaded with pictures, links to products, the flavor of living in France experienced by an American who married a French vintner, and, of course, a word
a day. These "words" are portals to another country and culture.
360 Travel Guide is a site devoted to interactive travel experiences. Lots of pictures and 360-virtual videos. Share your best travel stories for a chance
to win an iPhone.
Please see: www.360travelguide.com.
Taking the kids? For some great travel ideas,
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Christopher Columbus charts his course for the New World. (Photo © wynnter, from an engraving published 1879, artist
and engraver unknown.)
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EUROPA, up close.
(Photo©NASA)
KEEP
EXPLORING ... If there is life
in our solar system, Europa is a good place to look because it has a magnetic field and what appears to be lots of subsurface
water and a rocky mantle. In the picture above, the lines are fractures in the crust. NASA'a Europa Jupiter System Mission
will look closely at Jupiter's four largest moons, of which Europa is the most intriguing.
Guy Laliberté, founder of the famous Cirque du Soleil, recently spent 12 days at the International
Space Station. The purpose, aside from being the first Canadian to travel in outer space, was to bring attention to
the One Drop Foundation, an organization Laliberté has created which is focused on the crisis of water-related issues
around the planet. See his website: www.onedrop.org/en/default.aspx
GO AS
HIGH AS YOU CAN
You, too, can take a suborbital spin
with 5 other passengers and 2 pilots if you have a bundle of money and are very patient.
So far 300 people, including Stephen Hawking, have signed on. Check out
SpaceShip Two: www.virgingalactic.com/
Or Lynx:
www.rocketshiptours.com/ SPACE ADVENTURES,
the first company to send private individuals to the International Space Station (ISS), invites you to dream along with them. Their
ultimate adventure into space tourism is a trip to the Moon, currently priced at $100 million, and unscheduled. But you can sign up for an
orbital mission to the ISS, or a suborbital flight (like those mentioned above). See: www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Zero_Gravity_Flights.welcome To get started, try a Zero-Gravity
flight, for about $5,000. They will take you up just enough to reach zero gravity
at which point you experience
life with a freedom you've felt only in dreams. These are scheduled at points around the country.
To find one near you,
see: www.gozerog.com.
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STEPHANIE OCKO is a journalist in Boston.
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