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Wildflowers Now in Bloom at Chile's Atacama Desert, the Driest Place on Earth

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/31/2017, 8:00 PM

The driest place on earth is currently blanketed in purple wildflowers.Northern Chile's Atacama Desert typically gets a measly 0.6 inches of rain in an entire year. Nevertheless, every five to seven years—usually along with El Niño weather patterns—multitudes of beautiful mallow flowers fill the arid landscape with a surreal expanse of color. It's like finding a botanical garden on Mars (it so happ...

Boston's Logan Airport Might Charge You to Drop Off and Pick Up Passengers

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/31/2017, 5:45 PM

A new fee could soon be put in place at Boston Logan International Airport—and drivers are not going to like it. The airport has launched a study to look into charging people for bringing their private cars to the terminals in order to drop off or pick up passengers.These are ordinary drivers we're talking about, mind you—not those offering Uber or taxi services. The potential measure is only at th...

L.A.'s Angels Flight Railway, Featured in "La La Land," Reopening After Four Years

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/30/2017, 3:45 PM

Except for a single day during the shooting of La La Land, the Angels Flight funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles hasn't operated since 2013. That's when a derailment during the long-running tourist attraction's steep sojourn on Bunker Hill prompted officials to close the ride down, pending repairs.La La Land director Damien Chazelle secured special permission to capture a kiss between the mov...

Four New Cities Get $99 Flights to Iceland

By Jason Cochran

Posted on 08/29/2017, 8:00 PM

WOW Air, which has been earning its name with an aggressive expansion plan and tickets as low as $99 with advance purchase, is adding nonstop flights to Iceland from four Midwestern American cities that, until now, have not enjoyed them.This spring, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, and St. Louis get their own routes to Reykjavik. Once there, WOW also connects to Northern Europe.WOW already flies fro...

Women-Only Taxi Service Debuts in Paris

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/29/2017, 6:00 PM

Women have a new option for getting around Paris.A taxi service called Women Drive has debuted in the French capital. The business is staffed with female drivers and geared toward female passengers.The hope is that customers won't have to worry about "prying eyes or indelicate questions," as the Women Drive website puts it. The company also wants to provide job opportunities for women cabbies in a ...

Industrial Crane in Copenhagen Converted to Luxury Hotel Room

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/28/2017, 1:00 PM

Looks like we have a new entry to add to our ever-growing list of the world's strangest hotel rooms. This one can be found in Copenhagen, where an old crane once used by the coal industry has been converted to luxury digs with meeting space, a spa, an outdoor terrace, and a 538-square-foot bedroom for two. As you can see above, the exterior of the structure—straightforwardly dubbed The Krane—isn't ...

U.S. Expands Mexico Travel Warning to Include Cancun and Los Cabos

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/24/2017, 3:00 PM

For the first time, the U.S. State Department has expanded its Mexico travel warning to include the states where some of the country's most popular beach resorts are located. Updating a warning released in December, the government names Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo among the places where U.S. citizens have been the victims of violence caused by criminal organizations. Baja California Sur, o...

Airline Releases White Noise Album of Jet-Engine Sounds to Hum You to Sleep

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/23/2017, 8:00 PM

Do you sleep well on a plane? How? The seats are so cramped, and the temperature is never right, and you can't recline more than a couple centimeters, and the lack of neck support means that you either get a cramp from going chin to chest or your head continually does that thing where it nods and then involuntarily snaps up, waking you with a start.About the only thing snooze-inducing about the ent...

Rental Car with Upholstery for Kids to Color On During Road Trips

By Zac Thompson

Posted on 08/21/2017, 8:00 PM

On long car trips, many parents end up becoming the highway equivalent of cruise directors, arranging an endless program of games and activities designed to keep their restless passengers from staging a mutiny.Hertz UK is helping out those beleaguered drivers with a brand-new offering: a rental car with special upholstery for kids to color on. Dubbed the Colouring-In Car (complete with superfluous ...

Now Rolling: San Fran-to-LA Luxury Overnight Buses

By Jason Cochran

Posted on 08/21/2017, 10:00 AM

Now rolling (again): the bus that takes you overnight between Los Angeles and San Francisco in your own sleeping pod.If it sounds familiar, it's because we tried this already. In April of 2016, SleepBus launched for $45 each way, but demand was so strong that its backers were overwhelmed and realized they were onto something. They pulled the product for a complete revamp. This July, it returned to ...

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